Bird grilled, but lives to tell tale

A wild bird is little worse for wear after being hit by a car while crossing a road, then spending two days trapped behind the car’s grille. Connie Ankli said she unknowingly drove around with the bird, believed to be a quail, inside her vehicle’s front end. “Oh, I love grilled poultry. But I usually buy it at the store,” she said.

Ankli said she was taking her daughter to her piano lesson Aug. 13 when she saw an animal on a road in Royalton Township.

“I didn’t want to hit it, so I straddled it,” she told The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph. “When I was just about on top of it, it moved. I heard a thump, saw feathers out the back window, but no bird.”

Two nights later, she said she noticed movement in the front of the vehicle.

“I bent down and looked,” she said, and saw a bird “peering out from behind the grille.”

Auto shop manager Tim Markham said the bird had broken through the honeycomb-style, plastic grille, which then bent back and trapped the bird.

Markham said the bird would be released or turned over to a nature center.

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Atlanta Humane Society Putting Vick Jerseys to Good Use

When the bright red jerseys with the bold No. 7 started arriving in the mail, staffers at the Atlanta Humane Society were a bit surprised.

Today, however, about a dozen Atlanta Falcons football jerseys bearing the name and number of quarterback Michael Vick have been put to good use – as animal bedding or, even more likely, rags to scrub up the mess that dogs leave behind.

“Kind of appropriate,” said Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, of the jerseys that have been mailed to the shelter since Vick was indicted last month on federal dogfighting charges.

Atlanta Humane Society spokeswoman P.J. Smith said many of the jerseys were accompanied with financial contributions to the society and letters of outrage over the charges.

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Serious iTunes Competition?

Wal-Mart is launching an online music store that will undercut iTunes prices. That isn’t new. Several competitors have priced their offerings below the $0.99 per track, $9.99 per album that Apple harvests.

However, Wal-Mart is also stripping away the pesky DRM (digital rights management) restrictions that limit the functionality and portability of purchased tracks. In other words, these are genuine MP3 files that can play on any digital music player — including iPods — as well as be burned to CDs without limitations.

The cynic would argue that we have now evolved to the point where you can buy the superior product that has been available for free through illegal file-sharing networks for years. However, let’s give Wal-Mart some credit here. Pricing tracks at $0.94 apiece and full digital CDs at $9.22, it suddenly makes the iTunes Music Store a little less compelling.

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