AIBU?
Jamantha · 22/04/2007 12:59
Singingmum - I used to work in an office that had the windows coated so that you could see out from the inside, but from the outside it looked like a mirror, so you couldn't see in (security as we had lots of computers etc). One time a robin saw it's reflection int he window and tried to attack it, presumably thinking it had a rival and getting all territorial as robins do. For 2 days it repeatedly threw itself against the wondow, trying to fight off the "other" robin. By the end of that it had lost most of the red feathers on its chest and looked in a very sorry state, then it finally conceded defeat and gave up. We tried banging on the window, opening the window, shooing at away etc, but with no success. It was very distressing for us in the office (and presumably for the robin as well) and eventually we had to pull the blinds down as we couldn't bear to watch - though we could of course still hear "thump" periodically as it hot the window pane
Jamantha · 22/04/2007 13:03
And kimi - I walked into a full height window next to the door of an off licence once, thinking it was an open doorway. I knocked my head so hard I ended up with mild concusion (Next morning on the way to work I couldn't remember how old my sister was, so tried to add 9 onto my age and couldn't do it without use of my fingers). Woman in off licence commented that I was the second person to do it that day since they'd cleaned it. Couple of days later I noticed that they'd put a poster on it.
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