Good point, Pieter.
Before reading the article, the headline got me thinking: do birds/animals also suffer from heart attacks? Could it happen in flight? Because that was the first thought i got after reading “dead goose falls from the sky.” Any vets among LuLa members to clear up this important, non-political issue?
Then again, he could have been alone, with an unrelated hunting party shooting, no? We got to get to the bottom of this!
Yes, dogs can get strokes and our penultimate cat died from what I think was a heart attack.
So can people flying in aircraft. Happened in the row behind me on a BA flight from Nice to London. We sat on the tarmac in Nice for at least an hour on a very hot morning, and the guy behind us was quite uncomfortable throughout the wait. Near to London I heard a scream behind us and looked back to see the poor guy with his arms stretched out straight in front of him. His wife and a young boy were in a helluva state. The crew asked if there was a doctor aboard. After an interminable wait, two guys appeared behind us and had the victim out on the passage, but nothing they could do. The cabin crew? Input, zero. I had imagined those travel junkies were also trained in basic first aid. I was wrong, yet again.
Maybe things have changed.... at least
one of them should be pretty capable, and have medication to help. I carry two pills in my wallet all the time just in case I feel another attack coming down. Doesn't add a whole lot of weight.
However, the idea of a shot bird falling onto a shooter's dome does come with a tiny touch of divine justice, does it not?