A sparrow hit the window - man faints?

Question

My mom was at work and she was going outside for a smoke break. She was passing through the doors with a huge glass window and a sparrow hit the window right in front of her.

A few minutes later a man came into the store about to faint. He was really weak and my dad sat him down and gave him some juice. He felt better so he got up to go home.

When he walked out the door he fainted right where the sparrow hit the window. The ambulance came and they took their time and then all of the sudden they put on their sirens and took off faster than the speed of light.

Do you think the sparrow was a sign something bad was going to happen? (this happened with a sparrow before who flew into my moms apartment and died behind the toilet - she got a call that her grandfather died)

Answer 1

I often live my life by a simple principle.  This is a Wikipedia definition of the Occam's razor.

The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness"): "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", roughly translated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity".

It basically means that the most simple answer is usually the correct answer.

If you hear a noise at 0200 hours, is it:  A ghost, an alien, Armageddon or the cat you own?  What is the most simple answer?

Answer 2

I would say a bad omen.

Have a look for birds & omens - the list goes a long way back.

Notably Ravens crows and corvids are seen as birds of death - or messengers. Links with them go back literally to the dawn of history - where the first gods of the first time took positions on djed pillars - most having bird feathers and bird-like attributes.

Answer 3

That's interesting,

Your mom being a bird person

and your user name being kittacat.

Birds seem to play a common role in connections,

Thanks for posting!

Answer 4

A bird flying into a window is an old legend that something bad is going to happend. Iff you ever watched ghost whisperer they explained that. A bird flew into a window and her best friend died in a plain crash . A bird flying into a window is bad luck and it does not have to be friday the 13th.

Answer 5

no the bird was hot and disorriented and so was the old man..dont make mountains out of mole hills ..some things ..are just what they appear to be ..nothing special or symbolic..no omens

Answer 6

Do a google search on sparrow legends.  Sounds to me like your mom has a link with sparrows.  I wonder if it is always only bad news or if there are really good news events she can think of that also involved sparrows - just that they did something other than die. - Animals often know more than we do whether you choose to look at that spiritually or scientifically it is true.  Animals fled before the tsunami for instance.  Pets know when their owners are sick etc.

Answer 7

What you are describing is considered "false cause" and is a type of faulty logic. Since A happened before B, A must have caused B. That does not have to be the case. Just because I had scrambled eggs for breakfast, does not mean my aunt's car crash in the afternoon had anything to do with me eatting eggs.

Was this a sign that something bad was going to happen? Sure, it most likely meant the bird snapped its neck a millisecond later; which, if you are the bird, is a very very bad thing.

Answer 8

Whoa. I dont know what esle to say. I guess there is something to do with the sparrow. This can be a movie if it isnt already.

Answer 9

This is about as logical as saying my spaghetti boiled over and then the next day in Italy a volcano erupted.