t's not everyday in New England that you see a giant emu run towards you in the wild. Though, that is exactly what happened to a couple members of our WBZ news team on Monday.My first thought was, "what kind of rube do you have to be to mistake a freakin' emu for a turkey?" And then I realized, well, when that determination was made, it was coming right for them! Being good MA sheep, it's a safe bet that their only security comes in the form of a blanket and/or 911 on the cell phone. I did have to chuckle at this, though:
The crew was working on a story in the woods in Waltham, near Camp Cedar Hill, when the giant bird came near.
Photographer Chris Gobeille captured video of the emu darting back and forth, and at one point right towards the crew. They said the emu was making a hissing noise, and at first thought it might be a giant wild turkey; then they got a closer look.
Police said the owner is the facilities manager at Camp Cedar Hill. Officials say he had no permit for the animal. It's unclear what kind of permit was required.I'm guessing a LTE: License to own Emus. It's obviously a high-capacity ground bird, so that would be a Class A LTE. Smaller flightless birds like cassowaries or kiwis can be owned with a Class B LTE, that would be the low-capacity flightless bird permit. We're also assuming that this was a pre-ban emu, as importation of foreign emus stopped in 1989 and the general sale of high capacity flightless was temporarily halted from 1994 to 2004.
But the real question is, of course: What caliber for emu?
That is all.
19 comments:
At first I thought you had moody children dressed all in black running about hissing at people,and then I saw it was a emU.
12 gauge shotgun. You don't need that much to kill them, but if you try a head shot, their brains are the size of walnuts and are hard to hit. If you shoot them with a handgun in the body, they're going to keep going for a while because they're too dumb to know they're dead.
Hmm... that's true for both emu and emo, isn't it?
well after knocking over 12 of them this weekend with a .22 Hornet .. that will do ...
Cassowaries should be Class A too. Only a little smaller than emus, but faster and with a very powerful, damaging kick.
What caliber for emu?
I suspect caliber wouldn't matter as much as shot placement.
Ah yes the Emu. Interesting bird, it is the only animal naturally sexually attracted to himans.
I'm going to second 12 gauge shotgun for Emu, loaded up with turkey shot.
Emu recipes?
After hearing ParatrooperJJ's comment, I'd say the only possible caliber would be 20mm. Preferrably incidiary...
Emu sex attack on talk show host. Horrible!
Cue the Southpark "Its coming right for us!!" overkill.
"BIRD"
[BLAM]
There's a gentlemen over on, well, lets say, "one of the popular MA gun forums", who knew the answer to this question firsthand. I don't recall how this had come up before, but his matter-of-fact post about terminal emu ballistics pretty much ended the discussion.
I'm picturing killer zombie Emu's attacking during the zombiepocalypse.....
Emus are native to Australia so I'd go with .303 for Emu.
wv= bullyo. Nickname for Mass. Politician.
Shot placement is key. The only one I ever had to kill I used an M1 Garand. A lot of them got turned loose a few years ago, you'd be suprised how many feral emus there are in Texas.
"My first thought was, "what kind of rube do you have to be to mistake a freakin' emu for a turkey?""
I remember years ago a pair of California hunters in Arizona who bagged a couple of roadrunners during pheasant season.
Recipes for emu? Long slow cooking which ever way you like!
Either that or filleted, marinated and BBQed!
It's the cassowary I'd be worried about. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary
In his book "Living Birds of the World" from 1958, Ornithologist Thomas E. Gilliard wrote;
"The inner or second of the three toes is fitted with a long, straight, murderous nail which can sever an arm or eviscerate an abdomen with ease. There are many records of natives being killed by this bird."[17]
Several years ago I read of some hikers in Queensland (IIRC) being slashed to ribbons by one.
African emu or European emu?
As Gary Larson would put it... Bird shot. Big Bird shot.
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