BOSTON (AP)—A student touring Fenway Park was attacked by a resident red-tailed hawk that drew blood from a girl’s scalp Thursday.
The girl was taken by ambulance to a hospital, but wasn’t seriously injured.
The hawk was perched on a railing in the upper deck behind home plate while the group from Memorial Boulevard Middle School in Bristol, Conn., toured the stadium. The hawk flew at the girl and swooper with its talons extended, scratching her scalp.
A single egg lay in the hawk’s nearby nest in an overhang near the stadium’s press booth.
The nest and egg were removed at the direction of state wildlife officials.
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 3 April 2008 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not superstitious, but i'm guessing this means the indians will be winning the al pennant this year
― omar little, Thursday, 3 April 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Shasta, ban him.
― felicity, Thursday, 3 April 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
the curse is back! http://www.spudart.org/blog/images/2006/hawk-harrelson-pa-munster.jpg
― brownie, Friday, 4 April 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
What -- the curse of the Jerky Fuckwit Homer?
― David R., Friday, 4 April 2008 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
yes
― brownie, Friday, 4 April 2008 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
a thousand times yes
― brownie, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I think you mean YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYES!
― David R., Friday, 4 April 2008 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
this used to happen to me all the time at fenway park in the 80s
― jhøshea, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:24 (sixteen years ago) link
A student touring Fenway Park was attacked by a resident red-tailed hawk that drew blood from a girl’s scalp Thursday.
"YOU CAN DRAW IT FROM THE SCALP...."
― Andy K, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/hawk-attack-1.JPG.jpg
― jhøshea, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:31 (sixteen years ago) link
SCALPERS AT FENWAY
― remy bean, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
lol breaking news
― johnny crunch, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:45 (sixteen years ago) link
holy shit, WHAT'S HER NAME??!?!???!!!!?
― chicago kevin, Friday, 4 April 2008 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link
hawk was trained to hit ALEX, or Tippi Hedren
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 4 April 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
i'll put it up against this bird that dines outside my el stop in nelson algren square:
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/amypetlover/Hawk.jpg
― chicago kevin, Friday, 4 April 2008 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
the feathers everywhere are from the pigeons that lack sufficient street smarts for this neighborhood.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 4 April 2008 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Ewww . . . what is he eating?
haha barfxp
― felicity, Friday, 4 April 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
the first time i saw it i was hungover and still half asleep and this thing came barreling out of the sky making no sound whatsoever and then *bap!* there was an explosion of feathers everywhere like a pillow fight gone awry.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 4 April 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Gross! I imagine falconing is like that.
― felicity, Friday, 4 April 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
that's the hawk that got Jimmy.
― sanskrit, Friday, 4 April 2008 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish someone would do away with this hawk:
http://www.spudart.org/blog/images/2006/hawk-harrelson-sox.jpg
but not this one:
http://azdiamondhacks.mlblogs.com/diamondhacks/images/andre_dawson_expos.jpg
― chicago kevin, Friday, 4 April 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
les expos! ;_;
― David R., Friday, 4 April 2008 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I imagine falconing is like that
http://www.ultimatemets.com/photos_88888/0291.jpg
― brownie, Friday, 4 April 2008 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
whoa, Randy Johnson played for the Expos
http://205.160.51.222/images/5294x600.jpg
― brownie, Friday, 4 April 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
where to get seats at Fenway in late April?
― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･) °~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Monday, 23 March 2009 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link
short left field just beyond the third-base line
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 23 March 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
left field grandstand is a no alcohol section if you care about avoiding that
might just be deep left field though
― ۞_۞ (ciderpress), Monday, 23 March 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link