POST 308 22JULY2017
A SURPRISING STORY
Nature Art:
Searching for the Way
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POST 308 , 21JULY2017
A SURPRISING STORY
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In
our day to day activities, facing a problem or a situation, we often make
superficial assumption and quickly adopt our point of view or point out who
could be the culprit for some wrongdoing. This happens because our mind in
this case follows the logical reasoning we are used to apply and sometimes it
could miss the reality. So the best way to limit error is to train ourselves
for having the habit to counter any answer our brain first offers to us, then
check out other possibilities.
Early
this morning unexpectedly I found a nice story and I want to share it with
you as follows.
For the
longest time, homeowners and visitors to the quiet suburban street, which is
tucked in behind Innes Road, were
wondering how and why the side view mirrors on their cars were being
smashed to pieces.' "Nobody could
figure out what they had done wrong to make somebody break their mirrors, or
why someone would do this to their cars and trucks," says Paul Graham
who lives
on the street.
As the
weeks passed, the vandalism continued and the locals' frustration continued
to mount because replacing a side view mirror costs more than a couple of
bucks and driving without one is extremely difficult and against the
law. Insurance claims were the norm
for those unlucky residents of Beechmont Crescent and they wanted answers.
The
culprit was discovered one morning purely by accident when Graham's neighbour
was walking to his car. To his
surprise the vandal wasn't an individual, or even a group of wrongdoers, but
rather a what, which came in the form of a rather large woodpecker. The
normally tree-dwelling bird would land on an unsuspecting and innocent
vehicle, see its reflection in the mirror and wage a personal war against its
perceived enemy by pecking at it with its chisel-like beak until it
disappeared. "At first I didn't believe it I thought my neighbour was
pulling my leg but he said he took a picture and has proof that it's a
woodpecker causing all the commotion on our street" remembers
Graham. It's human nature to be a tad
sceptical when hearing such a tale, but Graham was starting to become a
believer when he saw the photo. He was all-in after the not-so-friendly
feathered friend turned his own side mirror into a hollow plastic shell and a
pile of broken glass near the curb. Apparently the destructive scoundrel
would go into attack mode early in the
morning before most people are up. The
early bird was not only getting his share of worms in the morning, but a row
of several new mirrors to lay his beak into. The woodpecker's hit list
continued to rise and the number of damaged vehicles swelled to nine….
(source: The Orleans Star, July 20, 2017; by Mike
Beasley)
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