Believe it or not, Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" is based on a true story. In 1961 the residents of Capitola in California were viscously attacked by flocks of gulls that had become infected with a brain eating parasite. It was by all accounts, a horrific attack... And yet, I feel that the savagery about to land in our inboxes is going to way overshadow the events in Capitola on that dark day in 1961...