Can a bird lay an egg in flight?

Whist driving along the M60 this evening The Mighty Vectra was struck on the windscreen by an egg.

I wasn’t passing under a bridge and it didn’t come from the car in front.

So, was it a…

A) Thrown several hundred feet from the housing estate next to the carriage way?

B) Dropped in flight by a bird that couldn’t wait?

C) Done by magic?

Yes, often happens in emergencies, much like tales of women giving birth in the footwells of the car on the way to hospital.

dunno, but I’ve been owned by a starfish, which I can only assume was dropped by a seagull.

If it was a small egg, it could have been dropped from the beak of a larger bird.

druidh – Member

If it was a small egg, it could have been dropped from the beak of a larger bird.

Can’t comment on its pre-impact size, but it was big enough for me to have to wash most of the car.

sounds like a pterodactyl egg. do they lay eggs?

Probably a laden swallow trying to gain a bit of speed.

European or African?

A)

dogbert, thats inspired.

Baby Robin?

Tis Easter, was it a Cadbury’s? any bunnies within range?

Best thread title EVAR

Just think yourself lucky it wasn’t two swallows dropping their coconut!

Python is alive & well on STW. 😀

Anyway… What were you doing driving? Aren’t you meant to be spending the day watching homes under the hammer in your PJ’s? Or were you nipping into town for a spot of shoplifting?

Didn’t it happen in the Goodies?

Can if it’s an Angry Bird

I demand to know more about the starfish incident

A good friend of mine once took out a jogger with a Manchester log end dartboard thrown from a speeding Capri.

He may have gone back to his criminal ways, I’ll ask him.

The answer is YES

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I demand to know more about the starfish incident

Chocolate, or the more fishy variety?

I don’t think they can, because they have nothing to brace against when they’re flying.

It’s like farting whilst driving – you can’t do that unless you push slightly on the farting bracket to the left of the clutch.

You can’t fart whilst pedalling – I read that on here once.
True n’all.

It’s like farting whilst driving – you can’t do that unless you push slightly on the farting bracket to the left of the clutch.

Farting bracket. 😯 😀

It does however bring Newton into the equation. If every action has an equal and opposite reaction does the bird experience a rapid change in velocity the insant is expells an egg? Do chickens make all that bloody noise because they bang their heads on the shed roof?

Dunno about eggs but I was driving through a leafy part of Derbyshire once when what must have been a BIG bird shat on my car from a branch. A huge burst of gloopy brown liquid hit the windscreen and in panic I pulled the wash/wipe, which just spread it in a thin opaque brown film over most of the windscreen. For a few seconds I was not in control of the car and couldn’t see where I was going. At the next petrol station I stopped and jet washed the whole vehicle; I was still finding brown crap in nooks and crannies for a few weeks afterwards. I have never seen such a prodigious amount of liquid poo.

I believe you are correct about Newton. My late grandmother told me that if you fart and sneeze at the same time you will do a backflip. This is based on science and I don’t think she would have made it up.

On second thought, it might just have been spacemen that do that.

I’ve seen my chickens lay an egg while running for food 😀 very funny

thegreatape – Member
I believe you are correct about Newton. My late grandmother told me that if you fart and sneeze at the same time you will do a backflip. This is based on science and I don’t think she would have made it up.

My late grandmother told me that if you sneezed with your eyes open they would pop out. She also told me that giraffes couldn’t cough.

Grandmothers are ace. Fact.

Trip to snowdon last month following a van down windy B road, van ran over some roadkill and some rabbit guts got flicked up onto our windscreen, turned wipers on but the guts stuck to the wipers smearing rabbit juice all over the screen. Bleurgh.

I’m sure I have farted whilst peddling?? 😕

Can you not push against the bars for the leverage required to pop one out.

Perhaps a question for Dr Nic, what bar width for sufficient fart leverage?

Sorry, not possible, belive me, I’ve tried.

Not pushed it to the limit, like, but theres only so much I’ll go through for science.

Ah ok harry thanks for the clarification.

Perhaps I must be getting confussed with laying and egg whilst peddling 😳

some rabbit guts got flicked up onto our windscreen, turned wipers on but the guts stuck to the wipers smearing rabbit juice all over the screen. Bleurgh.

Try 20 miles of road riding on roads where frogs have been crushed on their way to the river/stream to spawn. After about 3 miles I gave up trying to stop get it on me. Everything was very well washed on my return though.

I was minding my own business in the carpark where I work when something smacked me on the head, looked around and saw a starfish on the ground and a bit of starfish slime on my head. There’s loads of seagulls about so I guess one dropped it. I told my colleagues on my lunch break but they just thought I’d finally lost the plot. so I went to get the starfish to show ’em.

Did anybody see that programme with the baby quails trying to fly in zero gravity?

I vote this thread for the new Picolax…

I don’t know about laying eggs in flight but I did see a bird spew while running for the toilets.

Many moons ago a mate of mine was having a quiet slash in a toilet cubical at The Brick House in Manchester. In runs a girl, barges open the door and pukes over his back.

Classy.

YES!