These Pics Of Angela Merkel Covered In Birds Are Now A Meme And It's Sehr Gut

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    • These Pics Of Angela Merkel Covered In Birds Are Now A Meme And It's Sehr Gut

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    By David Mackby David Mack

    BuzzFeed News Reporter

    Posted on September 24, 2021, 6:25 pm { "id": 127843275 } Angela Merkel poses for a photo with a man at a market Stefan Sauer / dpa via AP { "id": 127843204 }

    Angela Merkel was on the campaign trail on Friday, two days before Germans head to the polls to elect a new parliament and thus her replacement.

    The 67-year-old is retiring after almost 16 years as German chancellor, but she is still out campaigning for her center-right Christian Democratic Union party.

    On Friday, she made a surprise visit to the northern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where she visited a bird park in the town of Marlow.

    There, while holding some bird feed, she posed with some colorful Australian rainbow lorikeets.

    { "id": 127843279 } Merkel smiles as six colorful birds eat birdseed from cups she is holding and one perches on her head Georg Wendt/dpa via AP { "id": 127843204 }

    Things... quickly went south.

    { "id": 127843286 } Merkel screams in agony as the birds swamp her and bite her hands Merkel screams in agony as the birds swamp her and bite her hands Georg Wendt / dpa via AP { "id": 127843204 }

    When the overzealous birds nipped at her hands, Merkel let out a screech that was captured by Georg Wendt, a photographer with the DPA news agency.

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    The incredible pictures soon went viral.

    { "id": "1441315395986624515", "params": { "conversation": "none" } } Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus

    Merkel visited a bird zoo today and the photos are everything. This isn't photoshop, it actually happened

    08:15 AM - 24 Sep 2021 Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @marceldirsus { "id": "1441252371900760067", "params": { "conversation": "none" } } michelle griffin @michellegriff

    I feel like Angela Merkel, photographed today in Germany with Australian lorikeets, is embodying the week we’ve all had.

    04:05 AM - 24 Sep 2021 Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @michellegriff { "id": 127843204 }

    People found the photos to be instantly meme-worthy.

    { "id": "1441405316642467845", "params": { "conversation": "none" } } けいた @0721_gg

    @marceldirsus 1.Instagram 2.Twitter

    02:13 PM - 24 Sep 2021 Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @0721_gg { "id": "1441452383461052419", "params": { "conversation": "none" } } Oh No! @OhNo_v3

    2019->2020-2021 https://t.co/Fq6PWIJqK0

    05:20 PM - 24 Sep 2021 Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @OhNo_v3 { "id": "1441379433286303763", "params": { "conversation": "none" } } Fiona Longmuir

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