Organizers of the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London are upset that pigeons act like pigeons. So they've utterly lost it.
Angry with pigeons soaring over the outdoor restaurant for media celebs, the forces of Wimbledondom opted to bring in marksmen to shoot the birds dead.
The effort is likely illegal in that locale, because organizers didn't even try nonlethal methods of keeping the birds away (with the exception of a brief attempt at using hawks to scare away the pigeons).
Ever think maybe the media folks could try eating indoors like everyone else? The world does not revolve around the privileged few who think they should get to work and eat outside while most people have to spend 40 waking hours a week cooped up indoors.
(Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news?slug=reu-wimbledonpigeons&prov=reuters&type=lgns)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Wimbledon organizers afraid of pigeons
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I'm waiting for the day the rich try and use this logic and say that they can shoot the poor.
ReplyDeleteThey could just ignore the pigeons. They've never hurt anybody.
It's this kind of "logic" that results in animals going extinct and unlimited deer hunting every fall. Cause hey, if you shoot them and hang their head on your wall, then they wont get hit by cars that are driving on roads built on their only remainder of natural habitat!