Friday, January 9, 2009

Its Sparrow Hunting Season

Question: How many architects does it take to catch a sparrow?
Answer: More than our office has.

Picture this. A bunch of guys with long sticks and plastic bags attached at the end standing on tables trying to corner the birds while a nerf gun militia chases it to their side. The nerf dart flack cannon assault did little to bring the bird down, and the high ceilings we love so much allowed to sparrow to flight out of reach of our plastic bag nets.
We did, inadvertantly manage to get it into an office. We switched nerf gun tactics from "shoot down" to "shoot until its too tired to fly". Which worked amazingly. One got a hand on the poor little creature but it managed to escape into a little hole in the wall, and hopefully escaped out of the building.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We've had this happen at our office as well - maybe it's common at architecture firms? One trick to get the bird out is to black out all of the windows (use the curtains/blinds if you have them) and open a door or window. The bird will go to the light and find freedom.