Rats With Wings
There are pigeons on my balcony driving me crazy. Their cooing wakes me up in the morning and keeps me up if I try to take a nap. They recently built a nest, so they have plans.
I figured if I can't outsmart a pigeon, I might as well give up. So I put a chicken egg in their nest, hoping it would scare or confuse them, and they'd leave.
Instead, what happened, predictably, is they are trying to hatch it.
They're gonna be here a long time. At least the cooing has stopped.
Columbus Guy says: Several years ago my dad had pigeons roosting and nesting in eaves outside his apartment, leaving copious pigeon poop as a souvenir (there's a hard word to spell). He went to Wal-mart, bought a pellet gun, and started firing at the poor things. All God's creatures except beef, etc.
Gun didn't work. Fired, did the pfft-pfft, but no effect on the immortals. He returned the gun, got a new one. Fired, did the pfft-pfft; no effect.
Perplexed, he put on his glasses. Turns out both guns worked fine. He was just an exceedingly poor shot. Pigeons survived, but the aluminum eaves did not.
posted by LAGuy @ 1:15 AM
2 Comments:
You think you're flummoxed now, wait until the unnatural offspring hatches and starts pecking around your balcony...
...and you begin to notice a slight scratchy feeling at the back of your throat...
"Paging Michael Crichton! Paging Michael Crichton...!"
Todd
Your chicken egg idea was on the right track. How about trying it again, but this time using another egg--say that of a cooper's hawk? (Perigrine would probably be too hard to get. You'd probably need to slip the fellow some meat from time to time, but it would be worth it at the end.
If that's a little too much vengeance for you, how about waiting until they hatch their egg and then replacing their little fuzz head with a fighting cock chick?
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