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When Alfred Hitchcock filmed "The Birds" in Texas, his production company brought in grackles. These are the black birds in that movie. They promised to clean t

When Alfred Hitchcock filmed "The Birds" in Texas, his production company brought in grackles. These are the black birds in that movie. They promised to clean them up afterwards, but grackles are birds and can get away. Grackles are an invasive species in Texas, and have almost exterminated our native bird population. I blame Hollywood, not warming for bird extinctions.

vb6sp6 3y ago
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nyolfen 3y ago
as far as i can tell, every part of this comment is fabricated. grackles are not invasive in texas, nor have they driven other birds to near-extinction, neither were they brought in by hitchcock, neither was the film produced in texas. where did you get this idea?
- RecycledEle 3y ago
  This is common knowledge where I live (in Texas.) Hollywood studios have a lot of power to change the "facts" that are on the Internet, and to shove truth down the Memory Hole.
  - uoaei 3y ago
    You're either a clueless bot or just gullible as all hell. You can visit the filming locations on the Sonoma Coast in California. I have, quite recently actually. You can verify for yourself they are the same places by comparing movie stills to real life buildings and geography. That is, if you have eyes and legs, of course.
    - dang 3y ago
      If you continue to break the site guidelines like this, we are going to have to ban you. I actually did ban you because your comments here and in the other recent thread have been so egregious (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36748560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36748560). But I changed my mind and unbanned you because it doesn't look like you've been doing it too frequently. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this, though, we'd appreciate it. You violated both the spirit and the letter of HN's rules badly, and we've already had to warn you repeatedly about this.
  - nyolfen 3y ago
    i have lived in texas my entire life and i have never heard anything like this bro

vb6sp6 3y ago

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nyolfen 3y ago

as far as i can tell, every part of this comment is fabricated. grackles are not invasive in texas, nor have they driven other birds to near-extinction, neither were they brought in by hitchcock, neither was the film produced in texas. where did you get this idea?

RecycledEle 3y ago
This is common knowledge where I live (in Texas.) Hollywood studios have a lot of power to change the "facts" that are on the Internet, and to shove truth down the Memory Hole.
- uoaei 3y ago
  You're either a clueless bot or just gullible as all hell. You can visit the filming locations on the Sonoma Coast in California. I have, quite recently actually. You can verify for yourself they are the same places by comparing movie stills to real life buildings and geography. That is, if you have eyes and legs, of course.
  - dang 3y ago
    If you continue to break the site guidelines like this, we are going to have to ban you. I actually did ban you because your comments here and in the other recent thread have been so egregious (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36748560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36748560). But I changed my mind and unbanned you because it doesn't look like you've been doing it too frequently. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this, though, we'd appreciate it. You violated both the spirit and the letter of HN's rules badly, and we've already had to warn you repeatedly about this.
- nyolfen 3y ago
  i have lived in texas my entire life and i have never heard anything like this bro