Not the first time this has happened, even recently. I remember hearing a couple months ago about a bird getting split in half. Hulk smash indeed.
Exactly. This is par for the course for all rollercoasters. Back when I worked at Six Flags, whenever I did the mornig track walk I would find all sorts of animals that had an unfortunate encounter with our coaster.
It's funny that another poster mentioned the Fabio incident. My park was alos opening a B&M Speedcoaster that year, and when we were shooting the commercial we screamed in terror everytime a Seagull flew by. The B&M reps would laugh, because the incident with Fabio had happened the previous week, so they were in on the joke.