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I suspect the phone book trick is just that, a trick....sort of like Karate guys breaking a stack of boards--soft wood, spacers, grain, etc. How the phone book trick was accomplished, I have no idea, but I'm reasonably sure there's a wink and a nod in there somewhere.

As to the bird thing...I remain skeptical.

One trick to tearing a phone book is to bake it an hour in a low heat oven, the pages become real brittle. I suppose this could be done to accomplish this trick too.

I went back and dug this one up from an ancient posting.....

I once hit a poor drive on a long par 4 , and had to burn out a low hard 4 iron to get back into play up the fairway - I scalded one that went about 60 yards before hitting a squatting squirrel so squarely in its side that the ball that would have gone another 100 yds stopped right there by the squirrel . As I walked up to it , sure it was dead , it kinda shook itself and got up and scooted gingerly to a nearby pine tree and climbed up about 10 feet , turned hanging there face down and gave me an earful of angry chatter ...

- that's great.

My Mother's neighbor told me that over the summer she heard a HUGE bang against her picture window. She ran over and saw a hawk laying motionless below. Her window had remnants of feathers still clinging to the glass.Yes, a huge hawk- dead. About 10-15 minutes later she went to look at it again- it was gone! She went outside in dis-belief to see if it was struggling somewhere . It was nowhere. She looked up into her tress and saw it feeding on a rodent(mouse) of some sort. Probably the prey it was after during that primary chase- that apparently never ended. Talk about amazing tenacity and will! Whew.

lol! thats a great story. i have hit a bird too. i was on the tee at my grandfathers home course and i hit a high and weak slice out to the right into a flock of these big ol' birds. one of thenm got hit and started running and the rest followed. i was getting like 100 stink eyes when i hit my second shot.

My squirrel story is a lot like Mr. Bogey's...

A friend of mine teed off on a par 5 where you have to lay up with a fairway wood short of the lake. He managed to hit a wormburner about 200 MPH right down the middle. It hit a squirrel sitting in the middle of this fairway right in the side of the head. We were all rolling around on the tee box and kidding him about sqirrel stew and calling the ASPCA. As we walked towards the little bugger, we were all sure he was stone dead.

About 50 yards from him, to our surprise, he sat up, shook himself, and saw these four large creatures advancing on him. He must have still been groggy because when he tried to run to the nearest tree, he kept wobbling and losing his way. He would fall over, right himself and glance at us to see if he were safe yet. Once he realized we were still there, he would start to run again. This was repeated about 3 or 4 times until he reached the safety of the tree. He climbed it, but very slowly.