[CrackMonkey] Those crazy Norwegians!

[Deirdre Saoirse]

Don't they know that ostriches aren't from Oslo?

Ostrich kicks man mistaking him for rival bird

OSLO, April 10 (Reuters) - A Norwegian farmer was in hospital on Monday
after an ostrich kicked him in the ribs, apparently mistaking him for a
flightless feathered rival in the mating season. 

Oeystein Froeysnes, 38, suffered broken ribs and punctured lungs when the
two-metre (six-foot six-inch) tall male bird kicked him as he entered a
cage also containing two females in southern Norway, the daily Agderposten
said. 

"We heard that the ostrich is in its mating season. It probably saw him as
a rival and attacked him," a neighbour told the daily. Ostrich farms have
sprung up in many nations in recent years and the giant birds are prized
for their meat. 

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