{"id":30531,"date":"2015-04-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=30531"},"modified":"2019-06-25T11:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:49:28","slug":"owl-teasing-in-bushs-pasture-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/owl-teasing-in-bushs-pasture-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Owl-Teasing in Bush&#8217;s Pasture Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-attack-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30621\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-attack-sign.jpg\" alt=\"owl attack sign\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-attack-sign.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-attack-sign-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-attack-sign-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-attack-sign-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-attack-sign-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s Pasture Park in Salem, Oregon, has an owl problem. Namely, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesmanjournal.com\/story\/news\/2015\/01\/16\/salem-man-attacked-great-horned-owl-bushs-pasture-park\/21888487\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an owl that likes to swoop down on unsuspecting people<\/a> and scare the bejesus out of them while stealing their hats. &#8220;Owlcapone&#8221; has struck at least four park visitors, and Rachel Maddow suggested that the only way to get visitors to take the owl warning seriously is to place yellow &#8220;raptor attack&#8221; signs throughout the park. The city of Salem agreed and there are now at least twenty signs posted to warn visitors that an owl could be lurking anywhere up in the trees above, waiting to strike. People probably do take it more seriously now. Just not me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-hat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30631\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-hat.jpg\" alt=\"owl hat\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-hat.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-hat-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-hat-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-hat-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/owl-hat-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 36px; left: 480px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush&#8217;s Pasture Park in Salem, Oregon, has an owl problem. Namely, an owl that likes to swoop down on unsuspecting people and scare the bejesus out of them while stealing their hats. &#8220;Owlcapone&#8221; has struck at least four park visitors, and Rachel Maddow suggested that the only way to get visitors to take the owl&#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/owl-teasing-in-bushs-pasture-park\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,533,151,102,223,493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oregon","category-pacific","category-the-great-outdoors","category-travel","category-usa","category-west"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Owl-Teasing in Bush&#039;s Pasture Park &#8226; Mellzah<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/owl-teasing-in-bushs-pasture-park\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Owl-Teasing in Bush&#039;s Pasture Park &#8226; Mellzah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bush&#8217;s Pasture Park in Salem, Oregon, has an owl problem. 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