Not Intent on Arriving

So, close to 200 people were traveling on a Spanair flight from Barcelona to Las Palmas on Christmas Eve. It’s sad to be traveling on the holidays so the airline decided to surprise them with personalized presents upon arrival.

From CBS:

Now, apparently, these guys are part of a national movement, complete with website. They claim to embody the values of comic book superheroes and seek to protect people from crime at night.

Not that their efforts are without risks. Police nearly shot one of the men after he came running out of a park late at night, near a crime scene.  In another case, police spotted a group of the superheroes in masks by a gas station and thought they were planning to rob the place.

[Thanks, Emily]

The small town of Beebe, Arkansas got an unwelcome beginning to 2011 when more than 1,000 birds fell dead out of the sky. Officials do not know what caused the sudden deaths of the animals, but plan to perform tests soon to identity a cause of death.

“It could be weather-related or possibly stress-related,” said Keith Stephens, a spokesman for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. “There were some fireworks shot off at midnight and it is possible that the birds were on their roost and stressed so bad that it could have killed them.”

A flock of blackbirds in happier times

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