Sparrow knocks over 23,000 dominoes before being shot

[Lamp]

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A sparrow knocked over 23,000 dominoes in the Netherlands, nearly ruining a world record attempt before it was shot to death Monday, the state news agency reported.
The unfortunate bird flew through an open window at an exposition center in the northern city of Leeuwarden where employees of television company Endemol NV have worked for weeks setting up more than 4 million dominoes in an attempt to break the official Guinness World Record for falling dominoes on Friday night.

Only a system of 750 built-in gaps in the chain prevented the bird from knocking most or all of the dominoes over ahead of schedule, "Domino Day" organizers were quoted as saying by the NOS news agency.

The bird was shot by an exterminator with an air rifle while cowering in a corner.

The organizers are out to break their own record of 3,992,397 dominoes set last year with a record of 4,321,000.

The exterminator was later fined €200,000 for killing an endangered species.

 

[Wonk]

they can't just shoot Jack Sparrow, can they? Don't we get a Pirates of the caribbean 4 then ?

 

[Alan]

Yeah sure, killing a living creature so your precious plastic bricks can fall over properly is well worth it.

 

[- English -]

why would you shoot it.. faggot

 

[Huntingtons]

lol

 

[Thorwyn]

disgusting

 

[CorNokZ]

The exterminator was later fined €200,000 for killing an endangered species.

Fucking owned tbh

"Here you go 50€ for getting rid of that bird for us.. It could really have made a mess, huh?"

 

[leviathane]

haha gutted.

 

[MaCaBr3]

Didn't that happen like a year ago?

 

[Mey]

pwned!

 

[Glacier]

Didn't that happen like a year ago?

Are you hinting that is it of O-L-D?

 

[MaCaBr3]

Are you hinting that is it of O-L-D?

Yes, cuz i'm pretty sure I remember reading or seeing his on the news last year.

 

[CorNokZ]

Yes, cuz i'm pretty sure I remember reading or seeing his on the news last year.

na-ah.. Was another sparrow and another Domino-related atempt!

 

[Huntingtons]

na-ah.. Was another sparrow and another Domino-related atempt!

its quite common in the domino-circles coz most of them also got a bird fetish

 

[Ezteq]

are we sure it wasnt assasinated?

i mean it sounds spookily like the JFK incedent to me.

seriously though wtf shoot something because it ruined your game, someones had a tantrum tbh.

 

[Cozak]

are we sure it wasnt assasinated?

i mean it sounds spookily like the JFK incedent to me.

seriously though wtf shoot something because it ruined your game, someones had a tantrum tbh.

I think I would if I had sat for weeks lining up millions of dominoes...
Maybe a bit over the top shooting it but they had to do something about it, and 200,000 euro fine.. good god get a grip.

 

[tris-]

let someone shoot a sparrow and next thing you know they are killing little kids.

from computer games uc

 

[Dukat]

The bird was shot by an exterminator with an air rifle while cowering in a corner.

Why was the exterminator cowering in the corner when he had an air rifle? :touch:

 

[old.Tohtori]

I think there's only one fair thing to do here.

Give a sparrow a rifle, let it shoot a exterminator and give it a fine of...what's 200k in sparrowdollars?

 

[Solo]

lol the story was on a QI repeat last night