This happened about 10 minutes ago... and I had to tell someone.

I don't know if this is funny or tragic... but I just have to tell it.



So, I go out for a smoke break because things have started to slow down. I go out to the smokers' area in the parking garage, sit down, light up, and I start to hear this buzzing noise above me. I look up and there's this freaking MASSIVE dragonfly trying to fly through the metal grating around the flourecent light above me.
He's unbeleivably determined, too. Buzzing his wings up against the metal violently for 10-15 second spurts at a time. Then he takes a moment to buzz around in circles, build up momentum, and try to fly through the grating again.
I am simply facinated by this. He's attacking it like a cat after catnip. After looking straight up at this guy for 2 or 3 minutes straight, my neck starts to hurt... but I don't want to stop watching! So I stand up and walk about 5 feet away so that I can watch from a better vantage point.
He swings around again for another attack at the light, and this time REALLY gives it his all. Nothing but the sound of tiny wings violently thrasing upon metal wire for a good solid 40 seconds. The lighting fixture actually started to move a little!
I can't help it at this point. I just have to say "what the hell?" and laugh out loud.

Then, the dragonfly pulls out all the stops. He flies away, u-turns, and rockets toward the light, straight as an arrow, at maximum velocity...








BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT*thunk*

*splat*








HE FUCKING KILLED HIMSELF!



I **LITERALLY** dropped my cigarette & cellphone!

... and my jaw.




I couldn't do anything but stare, open mouthed, at the dead dragonfly on the ground. It was like that scene in the movie "The Mummy", where the scarab gets in that guys head - you know the one I mean? Where he flips out and tries to kill it by sprinting, head first, into a stone wall, and ends up killing himself?
Yeah. It was just like that. Only the death was real.
My brain still can't reconsile it. I'm permanently wedged in this mental state of numbness. It's like, in concept, it's hysterically obsurd sounding and down right comical (I laughed my ass off at that scene in the movie)... but at the same time, I just watched a conscious, sentient, living creature die violently no less than 5 feet away from me.



It's fucking with me, and I'm working graveyard shift all by myself tonight... I just had to tell someone.



You may now resume your normal lives.

DUde that's crazy. I'm a little inebriated tonight, so forgive my lack of thought.

heroin is one hell of a drug.. not just for humans, but dragon fly's as well...

i love this forum....lol

theres something quite tragic and quite amazing here. Kinda like the dragonfly strove for his dreams so hard it killed him. Loss of innocence and a tragic hero at the same time. Hopefully before he died his head touched the light he was looking for.

positive he's dead? perhaps he just knocked himself unconscious.

I've heard of birds killing themselves in a similar manner. But this doesn't sound like an intentional suicide, that sucker was bound and determined to get to the light!

Do bugs get Darwin Awards too?

dude thats fcken crazy

Survival of the Fittest, now that dragonfly won't be around to produce others that will pull the same stunt.

Actually, it sounds like that dragonfly was REALLY fit. I mean, how many other dragonflys do you know that could reach such deadly speeds? Survival of the paranoid is probably a better way to put it.

japanese dragonfly. v-tec kicked in yo

i love this forum....lol

^+1

Thanks to this forum i know that i'm not alone in times of my most awkward moments in life.

Good god, crazy ass insects.

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lol for some reason, reading your post reminded me of american beauty.

wow thats hardcore. we should make a memorial for the dragonfly.

^don't say that.

It almost sounds like something we would probably do.

Wow, that is intense! That is determination. Poor ole chap.

^don't say that.

It almost sounds like something we would probably do.

cmon you know we should. lol

its such a tragic :tear: but inspiring tale lol.

i demand the OP to make a memorial now. get a bronze dragonfly and everything. so we can :bowdown: to it.

^Or should the memorial be to all the creatures of the world who killed themselves with determination?

what about the creatures go get infront of our cars and get hit?

^Those bastards can rot in hell for dinging up my ride! No sympathy for them

Haha, great story. You should have taken a pic of the dead sucker.

natural selection at work... lol

I :rofl:ed when I read the story haha... nice work!

This dragonfly -- was it silver?

This dragonfly -- was it silver?

lol!

This dragonfly -- was it silver?

this was intentional, not a jinxed accident. this would be more like a demolition derby dragonfly.

Don't demolition derbys normally have several cars? Or several flies in this case?

Your point stands, it wasn't accidental, but your alternative lacks something. The BeetleBrain guy from the mummy is the best match so far :)

he intentionally rammed the wall... perhaps an insane asylum dragonfly got loose?

Hehe, he needs to put padded bars on the light fixture to prevent unnecessary self-inflicted injury to his resident mental patients.

hmmm bug zapper anyone?
http://cdbaby.name/m/c/mcleod2.jpg
Had one of these puppies back at the farm.

^No need for them anymore. The bugs are getting dumb enough to kill themselves

You should see how fast you can fill up one of those bug zappers down in Central America in the middle of a rainforest! Takes about 1 minute! Oh....and the moths and crap are the size of a small bird, but they get in there just enough and make a fiery, spiral, death. Looks like B-52's getting knocked outta the sky! :sadwavey:

Cool story.

Interesting how we find metaphors for our existence in simple experiences.

If a monkey saw that, he'd be like "hmph. food."

bugs and animals that get hit by cars dont count. thats the easy way out.

it takes guts to smash your head to death. lol

Great narration... I've had a bird repeatedly hit the screen in my bay window. Its not like there is a reflection that is desirable.... ! He is determined to get to the "otherside"

Great narration... I've had a bird repeatedly hit the screen in my bay window. Its not like there is a reflection that is desirable.... ! He is determined to get to the "otherside"

When I was a kid, that happened. We had a puppy Shitzhu, and he was nothing but a black and white ball of fur with legs and eyes. He used to lay on the carpet in front of the sliding glass door, take a nap, and soak up the warm Florida sun.

All of the sudden, CRASH. We hear this WHAM!!! against the sliding glass door. I don't know how it didn't break, but outside, we see a couple feathers floating around, and this monstrous owl laid out on the deck. He knocked himself silly. He must have been flying around, saw the puppy laying there, and thought "HELL YA. DINNER."

Anyways, he couldn't fly or really move for a while. We called the wild game authorities, and they actually sent out an owl specialist lady, dressed like frickin' Marlin Perkins and everything, and she took the owl to care for him.

Owls is stoopid.

lol. damn wtf. if i was in texas i wouldnt even let my dog out until it was 10lbs or more lol. damn owls.

What's the last thing that goes through a bug's mind when it hits a windshield?

Its butt.

This happened about 10 minutes ago... and I had to tell someone.

I don't know if this is funny or tragic... but I just have to tell it.



So, I go out for a smoke break because things have started to slow down. I go out to the smokers' area in the parking garage, sit down, light up, and I start to hear this buzzing noise above me. I look up and there's this freaking MASSIVE dragonfly trying to fly through the metal grating around the flourecent light above me.
He's unbeleivably determined, too. Buzzing his wings up against the metal violently for 10-15 second spurts at a time. Then he takes a moment to buzz around in circles, build up momentum, and try to fly through the grating again.
I am simply facinated by this. He's attacking it like a cat after catnip. After looking straight up at this guy for 2 or 3 minutes straight, my neck starts to hurt... but I don't want to stop watching! So I stand up and walk about 5 feet away so that I can watch from a better vantage point.
He swings around again for another attack at the light, and this time REALLY gives it his all. Nothing but the sound of tiny wings violently thrasing upon metal wire for a good solid 40 seconds. The lighting fixture actually started to move a little!
I can't help it at this point. I just have to say "what the hell?" and laugh out loud.

Then, the dragonfly pulls out all the stops. He flies away, u-turns, and rockets toward the light, straight as an arrow, at maximum velocity...








BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT*thunk*

*splat*








HE FUCKING KILLED HIMSELF!



I **LITERALLY** dropped my cigarette & cellphone!

... and my jaw.




I couldn't do anything but stare, open mouthed, at the dead dragonfly on the ground. It was like that scene in the movie "The Mummy", where the scarab gets in that guys head - you know the one I mean? Where he flips out and tries to kill it by sprinting, head first, into a stone wall, and ends up killing himself?
Yeah. It was just like that. Only the death was real.
My brain still can't reconsile it. I'm permanently wedged in this mental state of numbness. It's like, in concept, it's hysterically obsurd sounding and down right comical (I laughed my ass off at that scene in the movie)... but at the same time, I just watched a conscious, sentient, living creature die violently no less than 5 feet away from me.



It's fucking with me, and I'm working graveyard shift all by myself tonight... I just had to tell someone.



You may now resume your normal lives.

Waht were u somking again????:suspect:

When I was a kid, that happened. We had a puppy Shitzhu, and he was nothing but a black and white ball of fur with legs and eyes. He used to lay on the carpet in front of the sliding glass door, take a nap, and soak up the warm Florida sun.

All of the sudden, CRASH. We hear this WHAM!!! against the sliding glass door. I don't know how it didn't break, but outside, we see a couple feathers floating around, and this monstrous owl laid out on the deck. He knocked himself silly. He must have been flying around, saw the puppy laying there, and thought "HELL YA. DINNER."

Anyways, he couldn't fly or really move for a while. We called the wild game authorities, and they actually sent out an owl specialist lady, dressed like frickin' Marlin Perkins and everything, and she took the owl to care for him.

Owls is stoopid.

lmao... I was expecting the dog to chase after something...

On a similar note, in my parents house there are 3 large windows (probably 10x4 feet) on the first and second floor. The lower level looks out on our patio while the 2nd floor is just open. We frequently hear loud thuds from birds hitting the second story windows. This only happened once, but a bird actually killed itself doing that. We heard a particularly loud thud one day and when I was upstairs later that day, a bird was laying on the roof over the patio. Eventually it was just bones that later fell off or something...