Gas station awning collapse blamed on pigeon crap build-up

The metal roofing came thundering down under the weight of several inches of bird droppings. A woman pumping gas nearby was so shaken up she had to be comforted by her husband. (Inside Bay Area)

Comments

[KDP]

This is the definition of the word "sh!tstorm".

[RockyMtnMac]

",he said. "I'm telling you, someone would have been killed if they had been standing there""
You really know it was just your time to go, when a roof full of pigeon sh*t falls on your head...

[Max Headroom]

Pigeons on the grass, alas.
Pigeons in the air, beware.
Pigeons on the roof, BLOOF!

[twerp]

I hate pidgeons as much as I hate black birds. When I heard about the 1000s of blackbirds that suddenly dropped dead in the sky, I was so happy.

Then when I heard how it possibly happened, I went out and bought a bunch of fireworks. I'm just waiting for the perfect foggy/rainy night to get'em.

[Me]

"She had just gotten back into her car" Where did the writer learn English? GPS (Ghetto Public School)#13??

[not me]

Me
"She had just gotten back into her car" is perfectly good English. Perhaps you should take English Comp 101 before you criticize.

[Sheila]

Both "got" and "gotten" are considered correct as past participles of "get."

[Max Headroom]

Those who speak the Queen's English regard 'gotten' as a barbarism. Then there are those who know what barbarism is because we've eaten the Queen's Menu.

[twerp]

Damn. I don't have my AP stylebook on me. Otherwise I can tell you if "gotten" is acceptable in reporting. I took some journalism classes in college--had to learn 500 of the most commonly misspelled words--DIDN'T TEACH ME SHIT! To this day, the only thing I learned was the difference between the words "nauseous" and "nauseated."

[Tom Weidermeijer]

That's a lotta shit.

[twerp]

Oh, and that "hot water heater" is redundant. Hell, I don't know if I even spelled "redundant" right. I just barely passed the spelling test.

[Phranqlin]

Pigeons are evil, I tell you. Evil! Those beady eyes look straight into the gates of hell. And as for what comes out the other end ... Dante was originally going to coat the Ninth Circle of Hell in pigeon shit, but that was too vile even for Lucifer.

[Krash]

Anyone else see the similarity between this event and the Joe's Crabshack commercial?

[Rock Marine]

It's a good thing it was bird droppings and not family dog droppings.