And short- sellers, who bet a stock will go down, flock to stocks of companies that do such deals.
The precursors of gunning floats were boats with impressive firepower mounted permanently on the front, mowing down sitting flocks to sell in the market.
That galumphing title referred to the conceit of this daft natural-history yarn: cameras inserted into some pretty ropey looking robot birds and then set down among flocks of bemused emperors, rockhoppers and Humboldts.
Collier emerges as a great trickster and illusionist who tries to evoke the world of print in late 17th-century England, in which (in the words of one pamphleteer) "pamphlets, like wild geese, fly up and down in flocks about the Country".
The road was lined with metal shacks selling alcohol in all its forms, cigarettes and candy; there were stalls piled with bags of walnuts and tired-looking cabbages; there were cheerfully scruffy Gypsy boys who importuned any vehicle that so much as slowed down, and flocks of geese waddling home in the fading light.
Guess who battle into their planes and go aloft to knock down a flock of attackers?
When the sun goes down, they flock to the aptly named Industrial Area close to downtown, home to spacious, modern nightclubs like Guvnor, where the soundtrack is a mélange of American hip-hop, local Afrobeat and Jamaican dance hall music.
The ride-off for bronze in the men's team pursuit against Australia was like watching the four horsemen of the apocalypse hunting down a flock of frightened budgies".
"This is the only time you have the opportunity that people will listen to you," said Representative Carolyn McCarthy, who has spent her entire legislative career fruitlessly attempting to do something about assault weapons that allow crazy people to easily mow down a flock of victims in a couple of minutes.
As the sun goes down, Würzburgers flock to the Old Main Bridge for a happy hour drink.
