Originally posted by ramseybuckeye Ostriches in captivity are notorious for swallowing anything unusual that gets into their pen - a girl's hair scrunchy, a ball, a deflated balloon, a soda straw, a piece of jewelry. That's because an ostrich will peck at anything that's a good visual target, something that stands out from the background, whether it's a piece of banana or a lipstick tube. Many (not all) men with a gun are the same. They have a firearm, they have a tendency to shoot at any good visual target = a bottle, a can, a sign. When they see something of the sort, it immediately becomes a challenge = "Can I hit that from here?"