Emu Attacks Carbondale!

You think the place you come from is fucked up? Look what's going on in Southern Illinois, where I grew up.

The headline says it all... Police Gun Down Errant Emu

What's even better are the accompanying emails I got from my friend Jonathan who works in Carbondale....

This happened by a guy I work with's house. He went home for lunch, and he saw the whole thing. He said the SWAT shot it with an m-16/ar-15 like 16 times and the thing didn't die. They even shot it pointblank in the face with a shotgun, and it still didn't die. They had to like shoot it 3 times in the face before it eventually died.

The best part of his story was that his neighbor thought SWAT was tranquilizing it, with m-16s and shotguns.

...........

Eric, the guy who saw the whole thing, said, "They shot it hell of alot more times than what said."