tardis-stowaway:

moonblossom:

Holy shit. Golden eagle tries to take off with a baby.

This was here in Montreal, somewhere in the Parc de Mont-Royal.

Thoughts:

(1)  Holy shit!

(2) But what if this eagle, in imitation of the eagles who carried Frodo and Sam out of Mordor just before the place blew up, is just trying to get that child away before the Dec. 21 apocalypse?

(3) Who the hell puts Chariots of Fire music on a video of a baby nearly being carried off for consumption by a predatory animal?

(3b) I don’t really have a leg to stand on here, having just joked about the baby-snatching in #2. 

(4)  Seriously, holy shit.

True story time [Content Warning: Pet loss]:

I have a friend who, when he was ten, was given a kitten

and he played with it all day

and then brought it outside for the very first time

and the moment he set it in the grass an eagle swooped down and took it away

and he no longer had a kitten. 

The first time he told me this story I was so shocked by the ending that I laughed and then I felt like the worst person ever and he was like, “No, I mean it’s awful, but it’s also the most darkly hilarious thing that’s ever happened to me. I think in my biopic I’d play it with ironic music or something for maximum guilty uncomfortable laughter.”

So I laughed extra hard at Chariots of Fire here, thinking of him.