Is Fracking Causing Blackbird Deaths and Earthquakes?

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So what’s the answer?

Is it fracking? Fireworks? Methane? An act of God?

Responsible officials should be taking possible dangers seriously. And if they’re going to decry irresponsible speculation by bloggers, they shouldn’t indulge in irresponsible speculation themselves.

Possibly the weirdest theory (from Arkansas Online):

For conspiracy theorists – Edward Beebe is a world renowned particle accelerator physicist. Robert J. Sawyer – top sci-fi awards winner, canadian sci-fi author of fiction FlashForward where a particle accelerator is used to down birds in Somalia – such a test run apparently by character Dyson Frost (not Campos or Simcoe characters). Consider in real life Swayer served as real life Writer-in-Residence at Canadian Light Source — Canada’s national synchrotron research facility and its largest particle accelerator — Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1 June-31 July 2009; first ever writer-in-residence at this cutting-edge physics lab; position created specifically for Sawyer. Note Flashforward tv show is cancelled before April 2009 disclosure of explanation for blackout. Swayer [sic] may be a modern day Dyson Frost? Beebe, Swayer [sic] and other particle scientists may be working on an experiment in Beebe, AR – chosen coincidently for physicists’ last name? LHC/Cern completed two particle collision in real life and are closer to a FlashForward kind of event.

Update: This is weird. And silly.

I guess I wasn’t the only writer who thought of Hitchcock. The Bennington Vale Press reports this was a failed publicity stunt for a remake of ”The Birds”.

A studio executive, on condition of anonymity, told The Bennington Vale Evening Transcript, “The stunt was a gross miscalculation. We were trying to help get audiences interested in the remake with a small scare. Unfortunately, the planes dropped the birds over Arkansas instead of Northern California where our marketing crews were waiting to hand out movie posters and swag bags.”

“Reboots of Hitchcock films have a history of poor box office performance,” the source continued. “Look at the shot-by-shot update of ‘Psycho.’ Boring. I kept waiting for Vince Vaughan to don a leisure suit and take off for Vegas with a bottle of Dewar’s. But yes, in hindsight, this was about the stupidest thing we could’ve done. Apart from remaking another classic, that is.”

Considering another headline on the site, “Horrifying Indiana Earthquake Spurs Mellencamp Divorce“, I’m guessing this is NOT the actual solution to the mystery…. But Kiran Adithan at Mediabistro.com was taken in by the spoof. LOLZ!