…in the park!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/13/dead.pigeons.ap/index.html
Bolding by me—
SOME SIDE EFFECT!! :eek: :smack:
If I were in Texarkana, I’d check for mysterious squirrel disappearances in the area.
Okay, I’ll cop to being insensitive. That made me snort.
I’m wearing an evil grin as I type. The pigeon poo encrusted patron, the feathered carcasses dropping from on high…
Bwa ha ha!
Sorry about that.
<SNORT!> The Google Ads, in a thread about Dead Pigeons, are all about…BARBECUE!!
BWA-HA-HA-HAAA!
MMMMMM… BBQ’d poisoned tree rat!
It’s not against any religon
To want to get rid of a pigeon
Wait…because some bird accidently got inside and…gasp crapped on a bank patron…they all have to die? That seems insanely twisted and horrible to me >:(
So if Sunday you’re free, why don’t you come with me
And we’ll poison the pigeons in the park
And maybe we’ll do in a squirrel or two
While we’re poisoning pigeons in the park…
It’s a glimpse of things to come, when we kill all the birds in North America because of Avian Flu.
You know, I’m pretty big animal lover, and I’m having a hard time getting incensed over killing a disease-carrying vermin species. Rats with wings indeed. I imagine large cities poison pigeons all the time - they’re just not usually so obvious about it.
Reading the OP again, it’s kinda funny that the bank is trying to claim they weren’t trying to kill the birds by hiring an exterminator - um, you do know what EXTERMINATE means, right? They didn’t hire a pigeon relocation expert.
I went to a community concert a couple of months ago where that song was performed by a pretty young blonde female in her twenties; I liked her version better than the original; everything about her, vocally and visually, was in perfect tension between pure virginal innocence and insane wickedness - it was really something to watch.
It’s [thread=299721]okay by me[/thread]. Bloody pigeons.
Stranger
May I have this embroidered on a throw pillow?
Since Tom Lehrer wrote it, ask him not me. 
I’m all for poisoning pigeons.
In Piazza San Marco, the pigeon food for purchase is laced with contraceptives.
In Darwin, northern Australia, local authorities pretty much wiped out feral pigeons, the only introduced bird species in the region. They did it beautifully, feeding flocks regularly for a few weeks to gather a big bunch, then one day put out the “special” food. The poison was fast acting, and reversible - if a native species ingested some, they could be scooped up and given an antidote. Did this a few times, and voila, no more pigeons.
I’ve reported this before. The City of Long Beach, California, has (or had at one time) pursuaded a pigeon hawk to nest at the top of City Hall. Didn’t eliminate all the bird poop, but cut down on it quite a bit. The all-natural solution to your excess pigeon issues.
The same thing happened in my hometown (Yuma, AZ) back in 1980. My dad was almost beaned by a falling pigeon.
Should have hired a Dalek.
Spring is here
Spring is here
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
Coffee.
Monitor.
You know the rest.
Would that be the Poisoned Pidgeon Festival? Or the Pigeon-Free Pavement Festival? Possibly a Non-Poisoned, Nose-diving Pigeon Festival (complete with pagent, perhaps)? Or (and this one seems a bit remote to me) the Dying, But Not Poisoned, Pigeon Festival?
So is there any recorded incident of someone catching something from a “disease carrying” pigeon? Just wondering because my Gramps raised homing pigeons (which mingled with city pigeons when they were out and about) and no one in my entire extended family ever contracted a disease from the birds. And we used to handle them a lot. **And ** they used to eat them during the WWII. I think pigeons are suffering from bad PR!