Thousands of blackbirds fall to their death for second New Year in a row!

BEEBE, Arlansas (PNN) - January 2, 2012 - Ancient Mayan legend says that 2012 will bring the end of the world.

A small Arkansas town might have shown the first example of that as approximately 5,000 blackbirds dropped dead from the sky last night in the early hours of the new year.

As if the incident was not strange enough, it is the second time in two years that the birds have fallen as the calendar year changes.

“I thought the Mayor was messing with me when he called me,” said Milton McCullar, the street department supervisor in Beebe, Arkansas.

“He got me up at 4:00 in the morning and told me we had birds falling out of he sky,” said McCullar.

Given the number of birds and the condensed time and location of their deaths, there has to be some commonality behind the bizarre event, but scientists remain baffled.

The fact that the birds were even flying in the middle of the night makes no sense because that is not something that they are trained to do.

“Most of these birds don’t see any better at night than you or I do. They aren’t adapted to see at night like owls so if they went off from their perches at night they're blind at night just like you would be,” said Dr. Kevin McGowan, an ornithologist from Cornell University.

Initially, last year's deaths were blamed on celebratory fireworks, with people thinking that the birds were startled to death.

A flash hailstorm or massive lightning strikes were also discussed as possibilities.

However, all three theories have since been debunked, as the weather was calm in Arkansas last night and pig thug cops even imposed an impromptu fireworks ban in an effort to prevent it from again happening.

“I called the (thug cop) department and told them, ‘I'm not drunk, I'm not on drugs,’ and she immediately said, ‘Oh, you're calling about the birds?’ and I was like, ‘Uh yeah!'” said local resident Jeff Drennan.