Having gone to college in Iowa ...

There is a story that for whatever reason state game officials in Iowa tried several times to introduce a breeding population of ring-necked pheasants into the wild (they are native to Asia), but without any success. Just before another attempt, while the birds were housed in cages, a substantial windstorm broke open the cages and the birds escaped...only to start a very successful breeding population in the wild. Murphy strikes when least expected.