Sender-inner Thérèse B. shares a story from Le Figaro: “Last week, Oleksiy Mishchenko and two other cyclists were training not far from the Cape of Good Hope to prepare for the Cape Town Cycle Tour, a race of 110 kilometers attracting 35,000 participants each year in March. Things were proceeding normally when an ostrich came out of nowhere and gave chase.”
Now, how does that song go? “Coyote, the Road Runner’s after you…”
Yakkety Sax should be the theme!
Ostrich/Speed
70 km/h
Maximum, Adult, Running
*holy shit, how did they not soil their pants?!*
*that ostrich is a truly mean machine, (hear him scream?!) mo-fo bad ass*
If I died right now it would be ok. I am satisfied with my existence on this earth having seen that guy run flat out like that.
Thank you very much.
I’m with you Faye. 🙂
So if ostrich wins the race, then we know her name is Rosie Ruiz… 😀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Ruiz
The ostrich is their coach and it bites them in the a$$ if they slow down.
Incentive.
I hadn’t realized ostriches were quite THIS fast.
…or determined!
“Geez, Norm. I hope I don’t look half as goony when I run.”
It’s like “Duel” – only with cyclists instead of Dennis Weaver, and a giant ostrich instead of a trucker…
so, really, what’s the deal with the ostrich?
was it giving chase because it was angry with them or what?
…hmm… was it really the bird that was screeching like that?
if yes, i wonder why it was pissed at the cyclists.
they must have commented on her legs. yeah, that must be it.
:-/
I suspect the ostrich is a ‘he’ and he is getting allll territorial. It is mating season and well, this is his ‘stretch/block to that bush and the white suv (*snerk* he is so bad-ass it could be his). He is confusing the bikers with competing mates. (??)
I watched it again. Basically they are being chased by a Velociraptor as in dinosaur with velocity. Take the feathers off and you have a warm blooded demented Dino up your A$$.
😀 😀 Yuppers! Screw CADF and any dope– just put a dino in feathers up your arse and that should do the trick. 😀
The fastest dinosaurs were probably the ostrich mimic ornithomimids, toothless meat-eaters with long limbs like ostriches. They ran at least 25 miles per hour from our estimates based on footprints in mud. But that’s just a guess and you don’t run your fastest in mud.
That’s not an ostrich. It’s Lance Armstrong. He’s still pissed about his lifetime ban in competitive cycling.
It’s like Ludivine, but with a lot of aggro.
http://notthatmiketheothermike.com/2016/01/27/this-reminds-me-of-the-time-i-went-out-to-buy-a-six-pack-and-got-elected-mayor-of-cucamonga/
Bertha: Hank, what-all are ya doin’ today?
Hank: Welp, thought I’d go for an o’strich of me legs on that cape o good hope.
Aussie cyclists win in the final stritch.
It’s the dude bringing up the rear, holding the camera, who I believe is in the greatest danger!
Was the Ostrich chasing them or running from the car that was taking the video?
Shan your question gave me a perfect excuse to watch this again. If you look closely at the beginning you can see the ostrich outpaces the person with the camera. The ostrich comes from behind and passes on the right. I think the ostrich is definitely in pursuit of the cyclists and not afraid of anything on this earth. I also think the vehicle may be a third cyclist rather than a car.
I agree – the article from Le Figaro says ‘Oleksiy Mishchenko and two other cyclists,’ so I assume he’s filming from a bike.
I think the ostrich believes they’re two exotic wheeled female ostriches and he’s trying to woo them – “Ladies, wait! You haven’t visited my nest!” 😀
He’s thinking WOW those girls are fast!!
Cyclists are always slowing down traffic where I live. Now I know what we need– a herd of ostriches to chase them away! I realize that would mean that the ostriches would then be the ones making me late to work, but I think I could live with that.
They interrupted a date! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160308-ostrich-chases-cyclists-south-africa-video/
He was just gonna score when fast competition came along.
She was all like ‘Farm-boy, fetch me that pitcher, err I mean fetch me those cyclists.’
LOL 😀 😀 😀
At first I couldn’t figure out why 2 cyclists were on a page for cute animals and when I got to the line about the ostrich I had to read it twice to make it sink in. And the video, holy smokes, I was laughing so hard! The only thing I had running through my brain is “PEDAL FASTER!!!!!!”