Weird King-esque photo-op

I just came back from Wal-Mart (buying groceries for the seven hungry South Carolina locusts currently visiting our house) and saw something that reminded me of the movie version of Stephen Kings “The Stand.”

Perched atop the warning sirens for the Perry Nuclear Power Plant were four huge turkey buzzards…boy, talk about apocalyptic! In “The Stand,” it was only a measly crow perched on the warning siren…how much worse could things be if four buzzards are taking up the same foreboding position? In the book, almost everyone in the world dies from a bioweapon release. What's in store now...everyone dies from radiation PLUS has to pay vastly increased electrical rates to cover the cost of the cleanup? The mind boggles...

I’m not sure why the buzzards were congregated there…I didn’t see any fresh carrion baking to the perfect stage of buzzard-yummy putrescence…maybe the buzzards were keeping their eye on the group of recreational bike riders that had pulled up to patch one of the members’ tires, figuring one of the bikers must be sick and would soon fall from the pack.

File this one under “weird.”