A taste of things to come at Vulture Central?
Just checking...... is there an Eastern Block version of El Reg? Ze All Weather Regista Communista?
German gay groups have protested the enforced separation of a couple of homosexual vultures who'd happily set up nest in Münster's Allwetterzoo. Griffon vultures Guido and Detlef had been together since March, gaily "grooming one another with tender sweeps of their savage beaks between rearranging the sticks that made up their …
Germany is still quite fanatic about denazification - banning sales of various memorabilia, etc.
The pink triangle that is one of the primary symbols of the gay rights movement came from Nazi Germany, as well: homosexuals were required to wear them, just as Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David.
And now, the thoroughly de-nazified Germany is attacking homosexual... vultures.
You just can't make this kind of stuff up - any fiction editor would reject it without even a letter.
OK, so El Reg obviously sympathises with vultures, but those two sound more like a pair of old retired mates (the odd couple? Pete & Dud?) than a couple of queens. Separating them & helping one to get laid sounds more like a Last of the Summer Wine script than standard zoo behaviour.