Winged Warriors
The animal uprising air force has been heard from yet again. This time they have unleashed a new and extremely foul weapon in their campaign against humans. They have made a courthouse in New Mexico uninhabitable. The foul flapping fowls have spread their evil all over the roof, coating it with enough pigeon poo to clog the drains and cause a noxious mix of poo and water to flow inside the building.
Which makes it really, really smelly inside the courthouse.
County Maintenance Supervisor Lee Delk said the ceiling seeped because a mud-like substance — created when water blended with droppings — clogged drains and leaked into the building through fallen ceiling tiles.
"It was nasty," Delk said. "We cleaned up about a gallon, but it smelled like a ton and a half."
Employees opened windows and used air-freshener sprays. Each office is equipped with an air purifier.
Delk said about 50 pigeons live on the courthouse rooftop. Many residents enjoy feeding the birds, so the county has tried to deal with the birds humanely.
"We have used nontoxic chemical spray and hired an individual to do live trapping," Delk said. "But they keep coming back."
Well of course they do. They're trying to drive you away. The pestilential pigeon power-poop tactic will be heard from again, after this modest success.
By Black Jack, June 29, 2006 @ 6:30 pm
If the County Maintenance Supervisor thinks the problem is clogged downspouts and missing ceiling tiles, then the County needs a new Supervisor. This guy’s either on the pigeon’s pay roll or he’s clueless about the basics of roof construction.
I’d have a close look for leaking pipes on the dirty arm of the upstairs plumbing.
By Blackhawk, June 30, 2006 @ 7:33 am
And as for the pidgeons….an all too close relative of the penguin…why not use Mother Nature’s remedy: Perigrin Falcons!!! And bird-shot. And kitties. Oh, and running a slight electric current through the roof would work (that’s how statues stay clean). Say, couple thousand watts.
By BubbaB, June 30, 2006 @ 2:10 pm
I worked at a hardware store when I was in high school. One day, one of my coworkers came through my area with a bag of gopher bait, heading up to the roof. I asked him why he had gopher bait, and where he was going. In his Texas drawl, he replied, “We’ve got gophers… On the roof.”
I think that would take care of the problem.
By Gaius, June 30, 2006 @ 2:21 pm
Well, they’d sure eat it. Pigeons aren’t real picky eaters.