It's an ostrich running down the street in Saudi Arabia

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Antinous / Moderator

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Rudy Belova

I would be running like that too if i was in Saudi Arabia!!!
- Cowicide
  
  Exactly, he’s probably desperately trying to get to the nearest airport for a flight to Amsterdam.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Apparently, there were Arabian Ostriches until the middle of the 20th century.
- http://twitter.com/Pluie_Parapluie てnan
  
  So true
franko

well, of course it is.
kajiiata

Who else immediately thought of a Chocobo?
http://codebad.com/ Donny Viszneki

Nice of that one driver to gently bump him off the road. Too bad he took a tumble.
http://twitter.com/ErnestValdemar Ernest Valdemar

Sitting as a I am in the middle of North America, I’ve seen wild turkeys do the exact same thing. It’s not exactly that they’re stupid, it’s more of an, “Oh, my God! A car! Run! Run like hell!” response. The whole idea of “leave the road” doesn’t seem to occur to turkeys, and it appears it doesn’t occur to ostriches, either.

Having followed turkeys down country roads at 15-20 mph for amusement, it’s a wonderfully heartwarming, human thing to see Arabs do the same with ostriches, albeit at a slightly higher velocity.

The funny thing is turkeys at least have the option of flying a short distance into a nearby copse of trees. The ostriches, not so much. But both birds just choose to run. To the EXTREEM, little feathered dinosaurs. TO THE EXTREEM!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=605790351 Ryan Holmes

I live in Australia, had the same thing happen with a Kangaroo. Despite popular belief, it’s not a common occurrence, and everyone driving had the same response of the What the Hell!
snagglepuss

For some reason, I kept hearing “Which way did they go, George ? Which way did they GO !?!” in my head.
Rider

If ever a video demanded Yakety Sax this is it.
IndexMe

You don’t realize, this was Harriet the turkey’s dream, nurtured with longing from when she was just a little bigger than a chick. The ROAD! That shining smooth expanse running off to knowhere. You can tell those big metal beasts love it too! Though they obviously don’t know the first thing about runnin’. No wings! By Allah one day I’m gonna do it. I’m so stoked. One day I’m gonna get on that road, and never get off it. I’ll run and a-run and I’ll find out just where that silver ribbon goes and I’ll be a-runnin! a-Runnin! A-Runnin’ I’ll by gosh and gahooley. Yessirreeee, one day I’ll run the ROAD. Watch out World, Here I Come!
http://twitter.com/golvio golvio

What a beautiful bird! I had no idea that they had so much stamina; that thing only stopped running when it fell over. I’m glad the motorists barricaded it from the middle of the street.

This brings back fond memories of a visit to an ostrich farm in my teens. Has anyone here ever been smacked in the face with ten ostrich necks as they tried to get at a bowl of bird feed you were holding while sitting on a fence?
SomeGuyNamedMark

It was clearly in the Ostrich lane so the driver was at fault
http://twitter.com/wtfwtf_ok Ray Greenwell

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Matt Gumbel

This is what happens when a country is run by 100% men.
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  Male ostriches.
Kealani Smith

I just hope for the ostrich’s sake, it’s a guy. Because having a female run around like that, no male relative to chaperone, no headscarf… that could just be too much for some of those drivers to handle.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  It is. Lady ostriches are brown.
  - IronEdithKidd
    
    Shhhhhh! Do you want the poor thing to get stoned to death for having the audacity being the lone occupant of her “vehicle”, and therefore, driving?
  - SomeGuyNamedMark
    
    This is why I come to BB. I learn something new.
Jake0748

Nice to see that they have redneck assholes in Saudi Arabia too. Terrorizing animals is fun the world over.
- Petzl
  
  In the redneck’s defense, he may be trying to get it off the road, now, forcefully but without killing it, so that it doesn’t later in some uncontrolled way, cause human beings to die when they swerve to avoid it. Why else is he honking the horn? He’s being humane, even if he doesn’t allow women to vote or fly kites.
  
  Driver’s Ed teachers basically teach you to plow through animals, if you’re at speed and they’re in your path: they frame it as a “personal ethics” decision, but your decision is given as: “animal lives vs. you/your passenger/oncoming traffic possibly dies.”
  - bloodybl
    
    I’d like to think that too, but I live in Qatar and I often Drive through Saudi. Let me tell you that he wasn’t trying to help it, he was probably just being a C***, everyone on the roads are C***s round here.
    
    Animal welfare just doesn’t occur to people out here.
http://profile.yahoo.com/F7HGPKGFTMFOM347SCGEPFN46Y Invisible Man

If it was an UFO the image would be totally blury.
ElectroDruid

Fenton! FEEENTOOOON! Jesus Christ!
mdot

Hey anyone remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cud_k9f6tqk
http://twitter.com/AntiBoredomTeam Dan Century

Freaking dinosaur!
http://ingulf.livejournal.com/ ingulf

mip mip! mip mip!
http://twitter.com/DharmaSchoolBN1 DharmaPrimarySchool

meep meep!
- http://aqfl.net Ant
  
  Ostrich != Roadrunner :P
http://aqfl.net Ant

And then what happened?