And you think the Landlord is bad

Imagine minding your rod on your kayak drifting peacefully, bobbing up and down and have this thing dive 30 miles an hour out of the sky and slam into you with talons open.

Extinct New Zealand eagle may have eaten humans
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/11/international/i072558D34.DTL&tsp=1

We generally have no idea of what it means to be prey.

A few years ago a neighbor told me he had seen a cougar sunning itself in a ravine that runs behind our property. About the same time a couple of female joggers had been attacked by cougars in SoCal.

I feed our fish at dusk and three ponds back up to that ravine. Now, whenever the dog comes bounding through the brush while I'm feeding, I nearly have heart attack.

Pea-brained killers...  sounds like people!   

We should clone it, and let it loose in Richmond.

 
In the comments....this made my day.

Pea-brained killers...  sounds like people!

It's shameful to hear you malign Raptors like that!  

More scientific discoveries from down unda'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/07/discovery-species-papua-new-guinea