Birds of (or without) a Feather?

I decided to do it when I walked out the department store. I had gone into it to do one of my several returns of Christmas gifts (I enjoy giving hassle to the clerks, and like receiving the cash in return). Anyway, when I stepped back out to the store's front door, I looked up and pointed up into the sky, saying loudly enough for passerby customers to hear me, "Hey, look at those dead birds. Awww, more dead birds---poor things---must be the winter." Those customers, of course, kept looking into the sky trying to see the "dead birds." I resumed my walk to my car, and departed.

-Old Gargoyle