Poisoned pigeons mar Texas festival TEXARKANA -- The city's annual festival was marred by dead pigeons nose-diving into pavement and others dying on downtown sidewalks after they ate poisoned corn from the roof of a nearby bank branch. Authorities said they cleaned up more than 25 sick or dead birds following miscalculated pest control efforts at a CapitalOne Bank branch. "The death of these pigeons was more than an unfortunate accident," city president for CapitalOne Bank Lacy McMillen said in today's online edition of Texarkana Gazette. "It was not the intention of the bank to harm any of these birds." McMillen said the bank hired an exterminator to handle its pigeon problem after a bird entered the bank and defecated on a customer. The Shreveport, La., company hired to do it, Anti-Pest Co. Inc., said the aim of the treated corn was to sicken pigeons and divert them from the rooftop but that death was sometimes an "unfortunate side effect." Vera Martin, working at a handbag booth at the city's weekend Quadrangle Festival, said the poisoning sends a bad message to children. "I think it's cruelty to animals," she said. "What other animals could be killed in the process of doing this?" Imagine getting hit on the head with a dead pigeon. It's one thing to get a little poop on the shoulder...but dead pigeons falling from the sky?
That should be cruelty to animals. If I did that and killed 25 birds they would charge me. Why is it that some 'professional' who should know better does it and it's... 'oh, it's an unforunate side effect'?
oh c'mon. "chickenhead" is just an explicit and more ghetto version of positive k's "i gotta man". just two people obviously hitting on each other, but have a pretty phocked up way of showing it. edit... btw, sorry for the derail. chickens, pigeons, etc. same difference.
