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 purplefood wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
What's the air-speed velocity of an unladen eagle?

African or European?

American (HURR!, our eagles kick your eagles asses!)

details on how it was faked

Well what a shame that was faked. It ain't every day you see a wee kiddie snatched by a bird. Still it was a very good fakery and i applaud those who did it.

 pretre wrote:
I may be a bad person, but I laughed my ass off at that video. (And yes, I have kids.)

Don't feel bad. I too laughed my arse off.

Why does ther internet ruin everything?

Because the Internet is a cruel and mirthless place.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

djones520 wrote:
That's scary as hell honestly. I'd have flipped my gak if that was my kid.

It was on ABC. I'd be eating fried eagle legs that night.

If that thing tried it on my niece(only one of them, the eagle can take the other brats) There would be one less eagle in the world.

Because you could fight an eagle.

You dont know that i cant, for ll you know i could have wings.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
You dont know that i cant, for ll you know i could have wings.

Lay off on the Red Bull man too much of that stuff is bad for you health.

 Cheesecat wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
You dont know that i cant, for ll you know i could have wings.

Lay off on the Red Bull man too much of that stuff is bad for you health.

ZING!

Still pissed off at a hawk for taking my fahkin chicken.

Here's what a Golden Eagle snatching something looks like. A real Eagle would have carried away a kid no problem.

Eagle never actually flies UP with that goat though.

 AduroT wrote:
Eagle never actually flies UP with that goat though.

It doesn't have to. Gravity kill, eat one's fill and fly off.

When the post says the eagle could easily fly away with a child, watch it fly away with this goat, and the video only shows it gliding downward and not actually flying away with said goat, its an important distinction.

Goats weigh more then the average human infant by a significant margin.

There are Eagles in Africa that carry away monkeys. I'm sure a human baby weighs around the same as a monkey.

So it is definitly possable for an eagle to carry off a baby.