[Closed] Can a bird lay an egg in flight?

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?

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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.

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Along the same lines - can you sh!t when you're walking (without stopping)?? I dont reckon you can, anybody tried?

Greg Lemond famously kept on cycling in the TdF despite suffering diarrhea, thus avoiding a "stop and go" time penalty.

A friend of mine got Nick Craig's wee up his front during the Isle Of Man End to End last year.

SiB, see the Jackass sketch for same.

Maybe its something to do with the low air pressure at altitude - you know, higher pressure inside bird, lower pressure outside - out pops egg!

Kinda the opposite effect of when you're trying to have a crap while swimming (go on - I know you've all tried it at some time in your life)but the water pressure won't allow you to pop that log out!

You see what I did there - cleverly weaved together the bird/egg thing with the sh!t theme...

Kinda the opposite effect of when you're trying to have a crap while swimming (go on - I know you've all tried it at some time in your life) [b]No, not all of us[/b] but the water pressure won't allow you to pop that log out! [b]so how come my kids can shit in the bath then?[/b]

your kids swim in your bath ?

so how come my kids can shit in the bath then?

Pressure is a function of depth, your kids probably rise to periscope depth before firing their torpedo, others prefer to launch their polaris missile while lurking at depth and let it float to the surface under natural buoyancy, and that's when the water pressure becomes a problem 😀

My daughter once nipped one off as we've lifted her out of the bath. It landed on her brother's head.

I think it may have been deliberate.

Never tried sh!tting in water but I cant fart whilst pedalling, got to freewheel to get it out. I blame it on the energy bars

I cant fart whilst pedalling

Isn't that what the 'valley' or hole in the middle of a racing saddle is for - or have I got that wrong...

The hole/"love groove" is there should you wish to light it.

perthmtb, I am obliged for that knowledgable explanation

We've had a very similar experience this evening. We were driving along a quiet road. No-one around. Then an egg landed on the widscreen from a great height. It sounded like a rock hitting the glass. It was a large egg. There was a bloke walking down the street and we immediately assumed he'd chucked it as he passed the car, but my husband turned the car round and we went and asked him. He was as freaked out as we were and covered in egg - he assumed we'd thrown it at him! It definitely seemed to hit us from above and fell out of the sky ?from a migratory goose.

Unlikely as November is way outside the breeding season for birds. Where were you eggsactly when this occurred?

Outside Edwina Curries house?

I too have pondered a similar question. Mine was "can a human being perform a bowel movement while sprinting at full speed?"

Thankfully Raab Himself answered that question for me.

Do [b]not[/b] press play if you're of a sensitive nature. It is rather graphic.

God bless Raab Himself, where would we be without him!

I have read of pregnant women giving birth while running in terror from extreme events, I think it was recorded about Pompeii or Herculaneum, but I'm sure people and animals [i]in extremis[/i] will, if you'll excuse the expression, 'drop what they're carrying'.
Unfortunate if you happen to be ground zero... 😯

I shat and vomited at the same time once, no extraordinary circumstances I was just really ill.

Brodie. Ta. Ruined my cheeseboard.

How come he ruined you cheeseboard? Did he shit on it whilst vomiting? Or vomit on it whilst shitting?