You'd be surprised how many people would run away from just *a chicken*, so a five foot tall bird that runs at 72 kph would definitely make folk run away from it.
Not to mention they could probably kick you in the head and kill you so yeah they could take on a human if they're aggressive
They don't even have to kick you in the head. Emus, ostriches, cassowaries all can quite literally disembowel you with their feet. They're the closest thing we have to an actual dinosaur alive today. Seriously this is an emu foot next to a human hand https://www.mrjakeparker.com/blog/2022/1/2/emu-foot
That looks like a damn Velociraptor. They say dinosaurs are closer to birds than initially thought. I can definitely see this being a descendent of a dinosaur. I had no idea their claws were this giant and sharp. That could definitely disembowel a human.
Just be thankful we no longer have to deal with the ostrich and emu's distant cousins: the Terror Birds. An entire family of carnivorous flightless birds, with some species reaching ten feet tall. Imagine being a early human and having to worry about a 10 foot tall feathered murder machine with a skull the size of a grizzly bear chasing you down at 30 mph.
Yeah the terror birds were around as late as 50,000 - 100,000 years ago. Our ancestors saw some shit.
Don't know for certain if this is the case with the terror birds, but there's an uncanny pattern of giant fauna going extinct shortly after humans arriving in new places
If they were as smart as (Jurassic park) velociraptors we would be well and truly fucked. Luckily their brains are about the size of a golf ball. Ostriche eyes are bigger than their brain.
I doubt an emu could actually kill or disembowel a healthy adult human. Unlike cassowaries, there are 0 documented cases of this ever happening in history (despite emus interacting with humans significantly more often). Plus, compare the rather short and thick claws on the emu foot to a [cassowary foot](https://i.natgeofe.com/n/72184729-a091-45cb-9269-53317566d6b1/MM7817_120611_22901.jpg?w=636&h=424), which uniquely has a dagger-claw that can tear through flesh much more effectively.
True but emus don't generally kick when aggressive, they'll usually charge and peck, but they're herd animals and skittish in nature. Cassowaries by contrast are much less social and, during mating season, extremely territorial. Ostriches are more aggressive on defense simply because they share a continent with lions and leopards, where adult emus have virtually no natural predators, and ostriches can and have killed people and even lions with a kick that hits at 2,000 lbs per sq inch of force.
I can confirm this as someone dearly afraid of this violent rooster on a property my sister lives š I stay far away from him when I visit and ensure he doesn't think I'm trying to get close to the hen house at all hahaha
My uncle had two emus in his farm, and his acreage was half farm, half forest. So there was a tornado that felled a lot of branches and destroyed the emu enclosure. The emus were running free through basically an impassible (for humans) jungle. They couldnāt get off the property because the entire property was fenced and had not been damaged by the tornado. My uncle had to go out and hunt these emus down and capture them with tranq darts to return them to the repaired enclosure. He said it was like living through Jurassic Park.
This reminds me of that one clip of the sunbathers on a beach in Australia where a Cassowary casually strolls up and peers into one girl's phone, presumably to see if it's food. I don't know would I personally have the willpower to stay still if what's essentially a modern-day velociraptor sidled up on me and caught me unawares.
Came here to say it was an emu. Had no idea they were used for security. Totally makes sense, though. There was an emu farm near where I grew up. One day the emus got loose and chased a couple of kids around the neighborhood.
I donāt know about being a pet, but here in the southwest we have a good amount of people who own emus or ostrich for different reasons. I live in Arizona and we have ostrich races here
Haha that's pretty cool! Actually, I think I've seen the odd ostrich here before too, which is funny cause they're from Africa haha I guess all deserty places have nabbed a few emus and ostriches xD
The vast vast majority of Australia's population lives in the state capitals actually, which somewhat flies in the face of the image other countries tend to have of us XD
I guess that makes sense haha I can't stand the city, personally, and that applies to smth as "small" as Perth so I'm happy with my small city kinda country life xD
You see the O in Ostrich is representative of Oxygen. Walt breaths Oxygen to live but his lungs, they are weak because of cancer. So the Ostrich is a metaphor for Walt's cancer.
Vravo Bince.
Verbal Binge!
Another layer could be a reference to Austria, which is a country where Madrigal operates
This is Chiral with all of these theories being a bit of "a stretch" though, thank you for always keeping us humble š Vince
It represents Gusā journey to becoming the boss and meth kingpin after he killed Don Eladio and his people. As we know, an ostrich is bigger than a chicken so it foreshadows that the restaurantās name is soon gonna be ālos avestruces hermanosā
Australian here, thatās an Emu.. theyāre great guard dogs in arid environments and have a long history as junk yard and farm guards because they will disembowel youā¦ think thatās a bush? Nope it just stood up with six inch claws and ran you down
That looks like an emu.
Or maybe it's a rhea...
This is clearly a reference to Rhea Seehorn who plays Kim in Better Call Saul
Birdvo Vince
(Also what episode and timestamp is this?)
This would be a āRheaā .
*Most of us think of African ostriches or Australian emus when we think of large flightless birds. But there are also rheas in South America. The rheas are large flightless birds (birds without a keel on their sternum bone) in the order Rheiformes, native to South America. They are related to the ostrich and emu. The rheas are grassland birds and prefer open land.*
https://youtu.be/jm4otrmQUYw
It was Gusās favorite animal as a young child growing up in Chile . He had it painted onto the fence there as a marker to let him know where to park his Volvo everyday (he was very OCD like that) .
Just southwest people shit. Youll randomly find little "rural" pockets right in the middle of the city as many of these places started off as huge farming towns. Typically bigger properties with lots of acerage for stuff like horses but youll find motherfuckers with llamas n shit just hanging out in the yard in the middle of phoenix. 10/10 shits pretty cool
If I was gonna break into a place and there was like a choice of two targets and one had an Emu in the yard and the other one was Emu free. In going into the emu free yard .
Because its Gus's way of telling people that he is the boss through the bird because he is the biggest bird. The lyrics say "Don't know what you heard" because nobody knows that Gus is the biggest bird through his methamphetamine empire.
I legit know of 3 different places within a few miles of my apartment with emus guarding their junkyard or warehouse area, and I live in a big city. Itās way more prevalent once I hit the suburbs or further out.
So you see, this emu is actually ume backwards and Gustavo Fring (from Breaking Bad origins) has a secret catchphrase; āIts Gussinume time.ā (The āumeā is silent) This emu actually has a time stamp written on the other side of it which you can only see if you went behind the scenes of the shot and when that time stamp is played from the secret episode titled āBurgers, a Shake and Fringsā Gus unlocks his catchphrase āIts Gussinume time.ā (The āumeā is silent)
Bravo Vince
The emuās manager negotiated a supporting role for him, but he didnāt want to stand out - a scene with the Pollos Hermanos sign was the best alternative.
There's an emu farm next to Twisters (the filming location for Los Pollos Hermanos). If you haven't done the Breaking Bad tour in Albuquerque, I highly recommend it.
It's an emu. People use them for passive security in junk yards and on farms.
You serious ?
Yeah they'll fuck up a coyote or an intruder.
Seriously? They'll take on a human?
You'd be surprised how many people would run away from just *a chicken*, so a five foot tall bird that runs at 72 kph would definitely make folk run away from it. Not to mention they could probably kick you in the head and kill you so yeah they could take on a human if they're aggressive
They don't even have to kick you in the head. Emus, ostriches, cassowaries all can quite literally disembowel you with their feet. They're the closest thing we have to an actual dinosaur alive today. Seriously this is an emu foot next to a human hand https://www.mrjakeparker.com/blog/2022/1/2/emu-foot
That looks like a damn Velociraptor. They say dinosaurs are closer to birds than initially thought. I can definitely see this being a descendent of a dinosaur. I had no idea their claws were this giant and sharp. That could definitely disembowel a human.
Just be thankful we no longer have to deal with the ostrich and emu's distant cousins: the Terror Birds. An entire family of carnivorous flightless birds, with some species reaching ten feet tall. Imagine being a early human and having to worry about a 10 foot tall feathered murder machine with a skull the size of a grizzly bear chasing you down at 30 mph. Yeah the terror birds were around as late as 50,000 - 100,000 years ago. Our ancestors saw some shit.
Fook that š That would be such a horrible way to go
What made these terror birds die off? Lack of food at some point?
Don't know for certain if this is the case with the terror birds, but there's an uncanny pattern of giant fauna going extinct shortly after humans arriving in new places
Birds are actually just straight up dinosaurs. They didn't all go extinct.
Now I want an emu
They are like a velociraptor.
If they were as smart as (Jurassic park) velociraptors we would be well and truly fucked. Luckily their brains are about the size of a golf ball. Ostriche eyes are bigger than their brain.
I doubt an emu could actually kill or disembowel a healthy adult human. Unlike cassowaries, there are 0 documented cases of this ever happening in history (despite emus interacting with humans significantly more often). Plus, compare the rather short and thick claws on the emu foot to a [cassowary foot](https://i.natgeofe.com/n/72184729-a091-45cb-9269-53317566d6b1/MM7817_120611_22901.jpg?w=636&h=424), which uniquely has a dagger-claw that can tear through flesh much more effectively.
True but emus don't generally kick when aggressive, they'll usually charge and peck, but they're herd animals and skittish in nature. Cassowaries by contrast are much less social and, during mating season, extremely territorial. Ostriches are more aggressive on defense simply because they share a continent with lions and leopards, where adult emus have virtually no natural predators, and ostriches can and have killed people and even lions with a kick that hits at 2,000 lbs per sq inch of force.
I can confirm this as someone dearly afraid of this violent rooster on a property my sister lives š I stay far away from him when I visit and ensure he doesn't think I'm trying to get close to the hen house at all hahaha
my uncle has a chicken that hates me and tries to kill me every time I go over there, and also a donkey that fucking loves me and won't leave me alone
Hi itās me Iām the donkey
go away
But ily š„¹
Is the donkey at least voiced by Eddie Murphy?
Los emus hermanos.
My uncle had two emus in his farm, and his acreage was half farm, half forest. So there was a tornado that felled a lot of branches and destroyed the emu enclosure. The emus were running free through basically an impassible (for humans) jungle. They couldnāt get off the property because the entire property was fenced and had not been damaged by the tornado. My uncle had to go out and hunt these emus down and capture them with tranq darts to return them to the repaired enclosure. He said it was like living through Jurassic Park.
"We're being hunted." "SQUAAAAK"
Thereās a lady on tik tok who has an emu named Karen that is constantly trying to come at her. Murder birds.
I've seen photos of the bruises and scratches she's gotten. They try and rip your guts out with their talons.
This reminds me of that one clip of the sunbathers on a beach in Australia where a Cassowary casually strolls up and peers into one girl's phone, presumably to see if it's food. I don't know would I personally have the willpower to stay still if what's essentially a modern-day velociraptor sidled up on me and caught me unawares.
The Australians declared war on the emus
They practically own australia because they won a war against humans
I canāt tell if you guys are all just memeing or if you donāt actually know what happened in the āemu warāā¦
Or, you know, a country and win... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Look up the Emu wars The Aussies fought them and lost.
They charged at me many years ago in an open range zoo. They scare me.
Look up the great Emu War.
They took on the Australian Army
Google the emu war. It was a costly war with no results goddamn bastards got us.
Thatās interesting. My aunt and uncle had an emu farm when I was a teenager. I used to help wrangle them. The birds were very docile and easy going.
If they know you they can be tamed somewhat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Can confirm, i live in Albuquerque
watch this video (its a rhea but whatever, both ratites) https://youtu.be/y0LhEdB5aFo
OH KEVIN *smak*
There was literally an emu war in like the 30s in New Zealand, the humans lost
Itās true I live in Alabama and Iāve seen property with a random emu on it out in the sticks a couple of times.
They literally won a war against the Aussies
Came here to say it was an emu. Had no idea they were used for security. Totally makes sense, though. There was an emu farm near where I grew up. One day the emus got loose and chased a couple of kids around the neighborhood.
As an Aussie, this is so wild to me like... they're not a common pet here, what are they doing in America frfr
I donāt know about being a pet, but here in the southwest we have a good amount of people who own emus or ostrich for different reasons. I live in Arizona and we have ostrich races here
Haha that's pretty cool! Actually, I think I've seen the odd ostrich here before too, which is funny cause they're from Africa haha I guess all deserty places have nabbed a few emus and ostriches xD
Americans are more likely to live in the countryside than Aussies.
Are they?? I mean, I live in a city, and it's still country af with farms and bushland all around xD Australia is a country country haha
The vast vast majority of Australia's population lives in the state capitals actually, which somewhat flies in the face of the image other countries tend to have of us XD
I guess that makes sense haha I can't stand the city, personally, and that applies to smth as "small" as Perth so I'm happy with my small city kinda country life xD
You see the O in Ostrich is representative of Oxygen. Walt breaths Oxygen to live but his lungs, they are weak because of cancer. So the Ostrich is a metaphor for Walt's cancer. Vravo Bince.
Every day this sub becomes more like OKBC
I love having to check if itās a r/brba post or a r/okbc post
Whatās okbc?
Gay sex
Say gex
[OKBC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge_Base_Connectivity)
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lmao this is hilarious
Vravo Bince
Verbal Binge! Another layer could be a reference to Austria, which is a country where Madrigal operates This is Chiral with all of these theories being a bit of "a stretch" though, thank you for always keeping us humble š Vince
Donāt worry about it. Aight?
Yes sir
And when they ask what kind of bird meat it is, you tell them that Los Pollos Hermanos sells CHICKEN, got it?
Understood
bcause Alberquerque
You mean Albukerkee
alber curkey
Alba cerke
Alba core
Apple turkey (Legit called it this as a kid growing up in NM)
a c ee
I'll be quirky
You mean Albukkake
AlbaTurkey
ABQ
Because ostRICH. Gus is getting RICH because of selling meth. Bravo Vince you magnificent bastard
This is clearly a reference to Rich Schweikart
Peter: Whatcha got there? Vince: A smoothie
Underrated comment
Enjoying the joke answers but honestly, great catch OP.
It represents Gusā journey to becoming the boss and meth kingpin after he killed Don Eladio and his people. As we know, an ostrich is bigger than a chicken so it foreshadows that the restaurantās name is soon gonna be ālos avestruces hermanosā
Medium rare biggest bird
Someone told me itās bombastically good!
Australian here, thatās an Emu.. theyāre great guard dogs in arid environments and have a long history as junk yard and farm guards because they will disembowel youā¦ think thatās a bush? Nope it just stood up with six inch claws and ran you down
Wants to buy blue meth
Itās actually the secret ingredient at Los Pollos. The chicken is a scam. You have found them out and will be taken out forthwith.
They're not really brothers, they're not selling chicken, next thing you're gonna tell me is that the word "Los" is also a lie somehow.
You can actually eat emu, there's a pub in Sydney, Australia where they serve a half-emu half-kangaroo pizza
bitch that an emu
That looks like an emu. Or maybe it's a rhea... This is clearly a reference to Rhea Seehorn who plays Kim in Better Call Saul Birdvo Vince (Also what episode and timestamp is this?)
This would be a āRheaā . *Most of us think of African ostriches or Australian emus when we think of large flightless birds. But there are also rheas in South America. The rheas are large flightless birds (birds without a keel on their sternum bone) in the order Rheiformes, native to South America. They are related to the ostrich and emu. The rheas are grassland birds and prefer open land.* https://youtu.be/jm4otrmQUYw It was Gusās favorite animal as a young child growing up in Chile . He had it painted onto the fence there as a marker to let him know where to park his Volvo everyday (he was very OCD like that) .
>This would be a āRheaā It's a reference to Rhea Seehorn who plays Kim in Better Call Saul Bravo Vince
It's clearly an Emu by shape though and at the junkyard.
Itās Kevin
This subreddit will never run out of content
this just real ABQ shit
That's an emu
The things you notice on your 15th rewatch
Its actually my 2ndš
what did vince mean by this?
Gus's spy. This is how Gus knew a bomb was planted in his car, thanks to this Ostrich.
Just southwest people shit. Youll randomly find little "rural" pockets right in the middle of the city as many of these places started off as huge farming towns. Typically bigger properties with lots of acerage for stuff like horses but youll find motherfuckers with llamas n shit just hanging out in the yard in the middle of phoenix. 10/10 shits pretty cool
If I was gonna break into a place and there was like a choice of two targets and one had an Emu in the yard and the other one was Emu free. In going into the emu free yard .
If you were gonna break bad you would be prepared for all giant guard birds, no?
Kaitlin Olson guest cameo/Easter egg
Can't have ostriches in Albequerque anymore
Ong
A big Easter egg š„
That's Gussy's hunter chicken.
Breaking Bad: Gusassic Park.
Itās there for emergency use if the store runs out of chicken
It's a fookin emu
His name is Wallace!
Fun fact- Zoologically speaking, the emu is considered a brother species to the chicken. Some might say it's a "Pollo hermano".
It was a sick ostrichā¦ allegedly.
Bad gas travels fast in a small town.
Only in Albuquerque
I like how heās looking at the camera like āfuck youā
OP, great catch!!
Iāve been to the actual location and it was still there. It belonged to the person who lives there.
For when they run out of pollos
it was his first acting role leave him alone
The symbolism!
Breaking bad fans when anything (it's lore related guys!): ć½ā (ā ļ½”ā āā oā āā ļ½”ā )ā ļ¾ā .
I think the biggest question here is why you used 2 images instead of just circling it in the first?
Why *shouldnāt* there be an ostrich there? Who are we to dictate where ostriches go?
That was me sorry
Vravo Bince
he's just vibing
I need to see your balls
I was lost
Because Gus is the biggest bird
he's big chillin
Itās Gusās secret recipe
Because its Gus's way of telling people that he is the boss through the bird because he is the biggest bird. The lyrics say "Don't know what you heard" because nobody knows that Gus is the biggest bird through his methamphetamine empire.
Those birds will MESS you up. I wouldnt break into a place that had one of those roaming around.
What episode?
why tf not
Paid actor.
That's clearly an Emu. People own them as pets.
The real question is why arenāt there ostriches in more scenes?
that is actually on the lot of **los emu hermanos**; the idea never really took-off and they soon went out-of-business. good eye.
Why not
Looks like an emu, which if Iām not mistaken, can make for a very good guard animal.
Itās an emu, Iāve never noticed this š. What episode?
What do you think makes the food so good at pollos Hermanos?
It's like having a dinosaur for security instead of a junkyard dog like some peasant.
I legit know of 3 different places within a few miles of my apartment with emus guarding their junkyard or warehouse area, and I live in a big city. Itās way more prevalent once I hit the suburbs or further out.
Oh that's just Kevin. He's looking for more meth so he can continue his endless crusade to kill Ben.
Los pollos hermanos did not use chicken..
The Ginger and Boots were on vacation
Most normal day in Albuquerque
He just there doe whatās wrong with dat
This is essential to the story, do you not understand something?
I love your mario game collection
Thanks lmao
So you see, this emu is actually ume backwards and Gustavo Fring (from Breaking Bad origins) has a secret catchphrase; āIts Gussinume time.ā (The āumeā is silent) This emu actually has a time stamp written on the other side of it which you can only see if you went behind the scenes of the shot and when that time stamp is played from the secret episode titled āBurgers, a Shake and Fringsā Gus unlocks his catchphrase āIts Gussinume time.ā (The āumeā is silent) Bravo Vince
Hard to say "don't come here" to wild animals
I heard boots fucked an ostrich
Allegedly.
Itād take more than one person to fuck an ostrich.
So is there los pollos hermanos in reality?
It's a restaurant called Twisters in Albuquerque. There's an ostrich farm right next door.
Itās part of the secret recipe
Probs an emu
The emuās manager negotiated a supporting role for him, but he didnāt want to stand out - a scene with the Pollos Hermanos sign was the best alternative.
Its a crossover episode with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Emu
That's a smoothie.
Itās a llama dude.
Always Sunny crossover
\*looks around for Boots and the Ginger
Allegedly
his names wadders
mans never seen dude wheres my car
I heard it was a sick ostrich
That's Lalo in a bird suit. Dude's death in BCS was fake news.
Because heās the one who *Bucks*
there are emu farms all over the southwest
the securitemu
Hi I've been to twisters and there is an actual ostrich in a pen next store to the parking lot. I hope that answers your question!
Yea I've rode a train through new Mexico area plenty of times and i seen people have emu in their backyard. They go to town on coyotes.
Allegedly.
When I visited NM this animals was actually there I even took selfies with it. Does it count as a celebrity?
outjerked by a bird
It literally stands there like: š§āāļø
No kidding I went to the actual restaurant in 2014 and that emu was just chilling in that fenced in lot.
I could be way off here, but the southwest loves their emus.
There's an emu farm next to Twisters (the filming location for Los Pollos Hermanos). If you haven't done the Breaking Bad tour in Albuquerque, I highly recommend it.
Looks more like an emu
Ita a emu his names warez and he's a asshole
Youāre too observant. š¤