Did the New Naked Gun Film Just Pull a Leaf from The Owl Guy's Book? 🦉📕🤔

I saw 'The Naked Gun' last night at the cinema and there was a scene where Liam Neeson's character is looking at a photo of his dead father and asks for a sign, as in an owl to prove that he is OK.

In the end an owl shows up and helps him to catch the criminal mastermind in the film.

And I couldn't help thinking that the scriptwriters of this movie had stumbled across the work of Mike Clelland where he talks and writes about owls as signs from the dead ... and aliens:-)

Maybe the screenwriters will put an owl/alien story into

the sequel?-)

Every August 4th

Mike Clelland's Birthday Falls on Folklore Day?📕🦉🤔💭👽🛸

The only people in the late 9 o'clock session last night was me and my youngest son, so we had the whole cinema to ourselves.
Funny thing is that this is the cinema I wrote about seeing an Ibis after the movie wondering around my car which I had parked in the backstreet -

Life is Like a Movie?

Then last night as we were walking back to my son's car, which was parked in Amy Street, a curlew crossed our (foot)path and I frantically tried to boot my phone back on and catch a few photos of the bird before it took off.

I have never seen a curlew running around the main streets of Brisbane before.

It was heading back to the main road where the cinema is, so I hope it had enough sense to get back on the footpath where we first encountered it when we turned the corner.

The last time I saw a curlew was the one I wrote about in this post -

A curlew at my neighbour's front door:-)

World Curlew Day? 🌍🪺🌎🪹🌏

UPDATE: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

My son went out to get some groceries on Sunday morning and came back to park in the driveway and saw a curlew was blocking his path.

He stopped his car to take a picture to show me and said that by the time he took the photo the curlew was in front of the neighbour's garage door.

I haven't seen a curlew around my unit for months, which is what I told my son the night before when we saw one walking the streets of Hawthorne.