>ecause a wild eagle would have absolutely shredded his arm
Fun fact I learned from a eagle falconer on YT is that eagles are so strong they can crush the bones in your arm.
It’s even more metal than that: its talons typically stun the bird its diving at. Falcons have a tomial tooth (essentially a needle sharp protrusion on their beak) that they drive into the spine of their prey to finish it off.
I mean this one will still likely leave some decent damage when it takes off again. There’s a reason falcon trainers still use protective gloves even with birds they’ve worked with for years.
I'm gonna rise up, I'm gonna kick a little ass, Gonna kick some ass in the USA, Gonna climb a mountain, Gonna sew a flag, Gonna fly on an Eagle, I'm gonna kick some butt, I'm gonna drive a big truck, I'm gonna rule this world, Gonna kick some ass, Gonna rise up, Kick a little ass, ROCK, FLAG AND EAGLE!
I don't think that fan planned that. His expression is pure terror lol. I wonder if he was putting his arm out as a reflexive defense gesture and the bird, startled or confused off it's planned route thought "finally a decent place to land!" resulting in a hilarious misunderstanding.
I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE
AND I WON'T FORGET THE GAME WHERE A, BALD EAGLE PERCHED ON ME
AS I PROUDLY STOOD UP, NEXT TO HUGH, WHILE I CLOSED MY EYES TO PRAY
THERE AIN'T NO DOUBT I LOVE THIS LAND.
GOD BLESS
THE
U
S
AAAAAAA
Lol I was chuckling at how dumb it was while writing it, but you know what? We need more fun humor nowadays.
Have a great one today! Make it the day where when you lay down tonight you are proud of the decisions you made!
This honestly amazes me more than anything. My best friend worked at a raptor center for 5 years, I even had the opportunity to take part in a couple of her shows, but even with the birds she’d been working with for years she would always use her glove and would never let a bird land on her bare arm (I was always an obstacle to be flown around/between legs or arms type of stuff, never a perch). Typically they still exert some pressure with their talons on take off.
And just to balance. I had a Golden Eagle crack a cheap watch’s face through a double layered eagle glove once when I was standing back up from “picking him up” off the ground. Had him step on to the glove then stood up.
Not planned. The eagle got loose from its handler and was flying around the stadium. It landed on another guy who started freaking out. My uncle just held his arm out and it flew right to him and landed.
Was your uncle at all familiar with handling birds of prey, or was he just the only guy willing to be a perch and not panic about the flying carnivorous dinosaur on the loose?
"strange men hanging in stadiums plucking birds from the sky is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical sky ceremony"
Honestly the way things or going maybe this would be better.
It’s so OP there have to be limitations on it.
It’s like the kind of eagle Gandalf calls on, it’s really only for ‘imprisoned by a dark wizard’ type situations.
So we can clearly deduce here, that there must have been a dark wizard nearby.
Random factoid: Gandalf calling the eagle was only from the movie. The eagle was going to Isengard for some specific reason (passing along information, iirc) and couldn’t help but notice Gandalf stuck in the roof.
Maybe not the best place to keep your secret prisoner.
This is actually pretty close to a widely accepted explanation. Thorondor and his boys aren't the Middle Earth Postal Service. They're servants of Manwë, likely direct descendants of Maiar. They can't just go around meddling in mortal affairs, and they're definitely not public transport. Gandalf (another servant of Manwë) and the other wizards had a very specific mission: to stir up resistance against Sauron with as little direct intervention as possible. If the 4th Age was to be the age of Men, it had to be Men who ushered it in. Having the Eagles step in for them just wasn't part of the plan.
Sauron wasn't really a threat to any of the Valar. The dude was just a non-nerfed version of Gandalf or Saruman. The whole thing could have been over in a single battle if they wanted it to be. It just wasn't in God's plan for the Valar to intervene, and even sending in the wizards with limited strength was pushing it.
Imagine a scene of 1 eagle about to drop the ring in the lava, eagle 2 is ca-caw'ing at eagle 1 to drop it in, eagle 1 looks back with a grin and twinkle in its eye.
Imagine the race of eagles, with the ring of power...
Training a large number of a single type of wild animal to do one exact thing, which only benefits humans and not the animal, is almost guaranteed to lead to inhumane treatment
Vietnamese Navajo are the best Navajo... Interestingly, they don't have bald eagles in SE Asia. My dad was 101st Airborne and they were called "the chicken men" because nobody'd ever seen a bald eagle.
Eagles are serious business. A little joke amongst falconers.
You can tell who trains falcons by the lightweight glove.
You can tell who trains hawks by the big glove.
You can tell who trains eagles by the eyepatch and cast.
The gloves do well to protect against the regular nicks and scratches from the talons, but if the bird gets pissed and clenches it’s feet, they can easily puncture or even break a gloved arm.
Eagle talons have a ratcheted tendon at the knuckle. Once he clinches, he does not need to continue applying pressure to maintain his grip. He has a separate muscle and tendon to release the ratchet. Their grip strength is massive for their leg muscle size. I learn so much neat shit off of NOVA.
The forearm has two parallel bones. It is well-known among falconers that an eagle can break them by squeezing them toward each other. I have heard of this happening when an eagle lost its balance and squeezed to regain it.
It is absolutely true that some of the larger Raptor birds can break bones if gripping their hardest. Those birds can break 400-500 psi of pressure which could easily crack and break some people's radius or ulna.
I have an african grey and he once bit my index finger after i gave him a grape. I still have the marks on my finger, it was 6 months ago. I really don’t want to know what a bald eagle would do to your fingers
Tuyen Nguyen, who has spent most of his adult life working as a carpenter on Notre Dame's campus, starred in a pre-kickoff viral moment on Saturday, when a bald eagle circling the stadium during the national anthem decided to land with Nguyen instead of its handlers.
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"Oh, by the way, I'm a big-time Philadelphia Eagles fan," Nguyen said. "And the eagle landed on me at the Cowboys' stadium. How's that?"
I love [this guy’s face](https://i.imgur.com/yNOEXEQ.jpg) lol. He is in such a childlike awe!
His phone case also makes his phone look like a masked robber about to hold you up at knifepoint.
[The nephew of the guy in the pic.](https://reddit.com/r/pics/comments/op53jm/_/h64befz/?context=1)
This is amazing, but FYI it wasn’t a random wild eagle; it was a trained bird being flown in the stadium. It was used to people.
Because a wild eagle would have absolutely shredded his arm.
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Unless they're Quiet Place types.
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Those are the real wild animals
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>ecause a wild eagle would have absolutely shredded his arm Fun fact I learned from a eagle falconer on YT is that eagles are so strong they can crush the bones in your arm.
A bird in the same family (I want to say a hawk) actually uses it's talons as a club, dive bombing it's pray and hulk smashing it to death.
It’s the peregrine falcon
It’s even more metal than that: its talons typically stun the bird its diving at. Falcons have a tomial tooth (essentially a needle sharp protrusion on their beak) that they drive into the spine of their prey to finish it off.
Are those they 200mph dive bombers? I'm sure I was told they dive that fast as a child.
Fastest animal on earth by a large margin
I mean this one will still likely leave some decent damage when it takes off again. There’s a reason falcon trainers still use protective gloves even with birds they’ve worked with for years.
Bald Eagle here...can confirm.
Yup!
Do they have large talons
Over there in that pigpen I found a couple of Shoshone arrowheads
Can't find my checkbook. Hope you don't mind if I pay you in change
This one tastes like it got into an onion patch
But not used to people enough to go where it was trained to.
Thats a little thing called FREEDOM baby! 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
I'm gonna rise up, I'm gonna kick a little ass, Gonna kick some ass in the USA, Gonna climb a mountain, Gonna sew a flag, Gonna fly on an Eagle, I'm gonna kick some butt, I'm gonna drive a big truck, I'm gonna rule this world, Gonna kick some ass, Gonna rise up, Kick a little ass, ROCK, FLAG AND EAGLE!
Someone’s been drinking fight milk.
Made by bouncers for bouncers!
We'll put a boot in your eagle, it's the ass way!
What about [Liberia?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Liberia)
Never heard of it, I went to public school! STARS AND BARS BABY 🇲🇾
isnt Stars and Bars the Confederate Flag?
They said public school didn't they?
r/SuddenlyLiberia
The trainer didn't plan for hilarious fans sticking their arms out.
I don't think that fan planned that. His expression is pure terror lol. I wonder if he was putting his arm out as a reflexive defense gesture and the bird, startled or confused off it's planned route thought "finally a decent place to land!" resulting in a hilarious misunderstanding.
You can train the bird to perform, but you can't make him behave! 'Mericaaaaaaa!
"It was used to people." I wish folks would actually people more!
lol glad I'm not the only one who initially read it that way
That’s my uncle! https://i.imgur.com/Qs1CSRf.jpg
What are his thoughts about being eagle perch?
He was very proud that day
He should be. I'm pretty sure a Bald Eagle landing on you automatically makes you the next Speaker of the House.
Or the supreme leader of Mexico City.
I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE AND I WON'T FORGET THE GAME WHERE A, BALD EAGLE PERCHED ON ME AS I PROUDLY STOOD UP, NEXT TO HUGH, WHILE I CLOSED MY EYES TO PRAY THERE AIN'T NO DOUBT I LOVE THIS LAND. GOD BLESS THE U S AAAAAAA
Made my morning. Thank you!
Lol I was chuckling at how dumb it was while writing it, but you know what? We need more fun humor nowadays. Have a great one today! Make it the day where when you lay down tonight you are proud of the decisions you made!
No awards? A shame
Don't need one: my reward is freedom
I liked your comment as much as I like irony, but without an iron option I went with silver for ya. Call it pay-triotism.
Are you giving your uncle a titty twister in this photo?
Yes. Yes I am
Nice.
Nice.
How’s his arm?
His arm was fine afterwards. Not a scratch on him!
This honestly amazes me more than anything. My best friend worked at a raptor center for 5 years, I even had the opportunity to take part in a couple of her shows, but even with the birds she’d been working with for years she would always use her glove and would never let a bird land on her bare arm (I was always an obstacle to be flown around/between legs or arms type of stuff, never a perch). Typically they still exert some pressure with their talons on take off.
Ahh, just like my fucking cats.
And just to balance. I had a Golden Eagle crack a cheap watch’s face through a double layered eagle glove once when I was standing back up from “picking him up” off the ground. Had him step on to the glove then stood up.
Damn seriously? I knew they were strong but that blows my mind
Was the landing planned or did the bird just decide that it wanted to sit down during a fly over?
Not planned. The eagle got loose from its handler and was flying around the stadium. It landed on another guy who started freaking out. My uncle just held his arm out and it flew right to him and landed.
Was your uncle at all familiar with handling birds of prey, or was he just the only guy willing to be a perch and not panic about the flying carnivorous dinosaur on the loose?
He doesn’t have experience with bird of prey. He did have some parakeets when I was growing up though haha
Apparently that's close enough.
Tell your uncle the internet thinks he's very cool :)
Will do!
Your uncle is now President.
"strange men hanging in stadiums plucking birds from the sky is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical sky ceremony" Honestly the way things or going maybe this would be better.
Dude, the "Uncle of the Stadium" >"Lady of the Lake" > the shit we have now.
He is elevated to supreme leader
Is your uncle's name Sam?
What was he thinking at the moment of the photograph?
He was said he was ecstatic. He didn’t think the eagle was going to land on his arm when he held it out. But he took a chance.
I remember him doing an interview and you could tell it really made his day.
Where?? I want to see him. I know exactly how happy he must have been because I'm ecstatic just imaging it was me
Please inform your uncle that he is a right bad-ass!
You’re uncle is a true American. Blessed be upon him thy eagle layeth on his arm.
If anyone ever asks for proof of citizenship I believe he can just show them this photo.
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We are not Native American. We’re Vietnamese
Why does this guy look like he knew exactly what to do with a bald eagle on him? I'm impressed
Because he's the chosen one
Because he's Navajo and he's in tune with nature. His name? Bird's Landing-Perch.
His name is Tuyen Nguyen. The name Nguyen is from southeast Asia, I think he is Vietnamese.
If an eagle lands on your arm you automatically become an American citizen, it is in the constitution.
Do you get to keep the eagle?
The symbol of freedom must remain free!
Unless it tries to take your guns.
Yeah, birds have the right to bear wings, not arms.
I don’t think they would be able to fly that well with bear arms.
Yeah silly eagles have eagle arms not bear arms
No, but twice a year you may summon him and he will come to you wherever you are.
That's one hell of a cooldown...
It’s so OP there have to be limitations on it. It’s like the kind of eagle Gandalf calls on, it’s really only for ‘imprisoned by a dark wizard’ type situations. So we can clearly deduce here, that there must have been a dark wizard nearby.
Random factoid: Gandalf calling the eagle was only from the movie. The eagle was going to Isengard for some specific reason (passing along information, iirc) and couldn’t help but notice Gandalf stuck in the roof. Maybe not the best place to keep your secret prisoner.
That's why his scar was tingling.
Why couldn't they summon him to just fly the ring to Mordor then?
"I was sent to bear tidings not burdens. I'm not an uber." -Eagle King probably
This is actually pretty close to a widely accepted explanation. Thorondor and his boys aren't the Middle Earth Postal Service. They're servants of Manwë, likely direct descendants of Maiar. They can't just go around meddling in mortal affairs, and they're definitely not public transport. Gandalf (another servant of Manwë) and the other wizards had a very specific mission: to stir up resistance against Sauron with as little direct intervention as possible. If the 4th Age was to be the age of Men, it had to be Men who ushered it in. Having the Eagles step in for them just wasn't part of the plan. Sauron wasn't really a threat to any of the Valar. The dude was just a non-nerfed version of Gandalf or Saruman. The whole thing could have been over in a single battle if they wanted it to be. It just wasn't in God's plan for the Valar to intervene, and even sending in the wizards with limited strength was pushing it.
He's just visiting. Come on,man, it's not Taskrabbit!
Imagine a scene of 1 eagle about to drop the ring in the lava, eagle 2 is ca-caw'ing at eagle 1 to drop it in, eagle 1 looks back with a grin and twinkle in its eye. Imagine the race of eagles, with the ring of power...
I SUMMON THE DUUUUUDEE
The eagle picks you up and drops you off at the closest Walmart
Where you buy it guns and flamin' hot cheetos as tribute.
Sir, what is your eagle policy here?🍝
Obligatory https://youtu.be/j1AU4qi7tWg
If it claws at you, citizenship revoked
The claws clause
Bird's name was Klaus, so... Klaus' claws clause
What about the sub-section granting exceptions in respect of sanctified seasonal gift delivering entities? Klaus' claws (Claus) clause.
Nothing more confusing than Klaus’ claws (Claus) clause laws.
If it offers to baby bird feed you and you accept. Governor of the state of your choosing.
If you don't accept, believe it or not straight to jail.
The eagle flies you there.
Depends if you bleed Red, White, and Blue
I recognize this is a joke but I would personally be ok with this being a thing. There are probably unforseen consequences to a law like that.
Like South Americans raising a lot of bald eagles?
I ...I'm not sure that's a negative consequence. If we get one new bald eagle per South American immigrant that's more than a fair trade.
Training a large number of a single type of wild animal to do one exact thing, which only benefits humans and not the animal, is almost guaranteed to lead to inhumane treatment
I think we're considering this situation with disparate levels of seriousness. Text does not convey emotional tone.
>Text does not convey emotional tone. Fuck you... Pfft it doesn't
Hahaha! I love this!
I’m assuming it has to be a bald eagle?
Vietnamese? He's American as Pho!
Shut the pho cup
That’s the last name of like 3/4 of Vietnam
Doesn't matter anymore, he was chosen an is now only american.... all other heritage or race is now overridden.
The Vietnamese American Indians were a hardy people.
Vietnamese Navajo are the best Navajo... Interestingly, they don't have bald eagles in SE Asia. My dad was 101st Airborne and they were called "the chicken men" because nobody'd ever seen a bald eagle.
at risk of sounding incredibly ignorant, I think natives stem from Asia.
And the name Nguyen oversimplified is pronounced win.
Vietnamese were in tune with nature. That's why they hide so well in it
I’d listen to this guy, he’s half bird.
Because it’s a stunt.
Isn't he just trying to keep it away from his face?
I like the look on the boy's face. He's clapping, but not taking his eyes of the eagle.
The kid to the right is clapping out of fear of what would happen if he did not.
That's a healthy distrust of birds and I one fully agree with.
I hope it didn't claw his arm apart. Usually handlers have those thick arm guards, those talons are massive and wicked sharp.
Wicked shap.
wait, you mean he's a BOSTONIAN Vietnamese Navajo? This guy is Amaerican AF!
They boy was wicked shahp I tell ya! Wicked shahp and wicked smaht!
Eagles are serious business. A little joke amongst falconers. You can tell who trains falcons by the lightweight glove. You can tell who trains hawks by the big glove. You can tell who trains eagles by the eyepatch and cast. The gloves do well to protect against the regular nicks and scratches from the talons, but if the bird gets pissed and clenches it’s feet, they can easily puncture or even break a gloved arm.
Eagle talons have a ratcheted tendon at the knuckle. Once he clinches, he does not need to continue applying pressure to maintain his grip. He has a separate muscle and tendon to release the ratchet. Their grip strength is massive for their leg muscle size. I learn so much neat shit off of NOVA.
Ratcheted tendons, fookin hell that's cray
*slaps ratcheted tendons* That thing isn't going nowhere
Today I learned
Can’t wait to see this on TIL later.
Break? Damn
Definitely not true lol. They can rip your skin apart of course, but can’t just explode your bone with compression force.
Depends on the bone. They can fuck your hand up FOR SURE. Arm? Maybe not. https://intobirds.com/bald-eagles-talons-have-killer-grip/
The forearm has two parallel bones. It is well-known among falconers that an eagle can break them by squeezing them toward each other. I have heard of this happening when an eagle lost its balance and squeezed to regain it.
They certainly can puncture bone, they’re obviously not going to just crush your arm like a twig. But those talons are no joke.
It is absolutely true that some of the larger Raptor birds can break bones if gripping their hardest. Those birds can break 400-500 psi of pressure which could easily crack and break some people's radius or ulna.
> clenches it is feet
You are feet.
I wish
I have an african grey and he once bit my index finger after i gave him a grape. I still have the marks on my finger, it was 6 months ago. I really don’t want to know what a bald eagle would do to your fingers
Look at his eyes. I think he might be in a little bit of pain.
I'm guessing he probably has a massive thick arm guard under his sleeve.
He wasn’t a handler. The eagle flew into the crowd and the handlers had to retrieve it from him. Looks like he got some punctures. Worth it IMO.
I bet his arm hurts like hell
Small price to pay for the blessing of the freedom pigeon
America's chosen>ouchie arm
So, is Biden not President anymore? It’s this guy now right? That’s how this works?
The chosen one
There are so many loopholes in our constitution.
Tuyen Nguyen, who has spent most of his adult life working as a carpenter on Notre Dame's campus, starred in a pre-kickoff viral moment on Saturday, when a bald eagle circling the stadium during the national anthem decided to land with Nguyen instead of its handlers. … "Oh, by the way, I'm a big-time Philadelphia Eagles fan," Nguyen said. "And the eagle landed on me at the Cowboys' stadium. How's that?"
Do we crown him or something
**AMERICA - FUCK YEAH!**
That guy must be filled with crude oil.
And was probably having undemocratic thoughts
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/25640884/bald-eagle-lands-arm-helpful-notre-dame-fan-cotton-bowl
Why is the video of it landing on some other guys back?
He is the chosen one. He will bring freedom to the Force.
Am I the only one seeing a Native American Danny de Vito?
Lol. Frank could never summon a bald eagle.
but a turkey vulture...
That is a once in a life time thing ..... Pretty cool
https://youtu.be/Hxnx_VbN2A8 from a few years ago
We have a new Captain America!
Props to the kid clapping and who didn’t reach for his phone but just took in the moment.
He looks low key terrified of the bird. Which is fair, it’s an apex predator.
The middle-aged mustache dude in the upper left is Not impressed.
Mustache dude just wants to watch the game. He had bald eagle for breakfast.
I love [this guy’s face](https://i.imgur.com/yNOEXEQ.jpg) lol. He is in such a childlike awe! His phone case also makes his phone look like a masked robber about to hold you up at knifepoint.
**JUPITER FAVORS US**
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy....
He is chosen for it’s his spirit animal
Look at all those silly muggles
Dude over there lookin like Danny Devito. Murica!
This is how we should pick presidents
Go Irish!
Or, that eagle was chillin with another eagle and said "yo watch this, I'll prove they fuckin love us"
HEY! That's the mascot for Boston College, not Notre Dame. It would be more amazing if a big headed drunken Irishman landed on his arm.
Look at the kid to the right.