Blackbird Pies and Alfred Hitchcock in 1976

Send us Fan MailIn 1976 the small town of Butler Georgia was overrun with Blackbirds, and when I say overrun, I mean millions of them critters.  It didn't take long before the local town folk done had enough of the noise and bird crap, thus someone on the City Council decided to purchase all the shotguns shells in the surrounding area, and give them away to anyone who came to town with a shotgun.  Now of course the plan was to rid the town of these birds.  All I can say is, that as a young boy having watched to Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds,"  I believed I was giving payback for them birds attacking that pretty lady and her pet birds, and for damn sure them fellers at the gas pump and the youngin's running out of that old schoolhouse.  The end results that day were:  hot gun barrels, sore shoulders, a mess of dead birds and shells about the ground, and a many of families ate Blackbird Pie that evening.