Pigeon Dive Bombers

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.

We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment.
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strychnine
We feed to a pigeon.
It just takes a smidgin!
To poison a pigeon in the park.
(Tom Lehrer, Poisoning Pigeons In The Park)

Something went awry when a contractor went to perform his duties at a Schenectady, New York hospital. The pesticide he spread around was only supposed to make a few pigeons sick, instead, dozens of birds started dive bombing people around the hospital, causing them to shut down their emergency room.

"Birds were coming down like dive bombers," said Fire Chief Robert Farstad.

Ellis Hospital said its emergency room continued to treat patients during the incident Thursday evening but had to divert ambulances to other hospitals.

The hospital had brought in an exterminator to use a pesticide to get rid of pigeons on the roof. The chemical was designed to poison a few birds, whose distress calls would then drive off other members of the flock. Instead, more than two dozen pigeons were stricken.

Emergency workers spent hours searching the hospital grounds and putting dead birds in red hazardous-waste bags.

We here at Blue Crab Boulevard know the truth of course. The birds were not poisoned at all. They were warriors in the animal uprising and the dive bombing was intentional. Yet another fowl kamikaze incident. The power diving pigeons of perdition have arrived. You have been warned!

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