Pigeons Of The Sea
It seems the city of Bristol, England has a wee bit of a problem on its hands. It's the gulls, you see. Or the sea gulls, you see. Or something like that. Anyway, they have huge numbers of the amphibious pigeons strutting all over the city leaving large deposits of what gulls do best everywhere. But they have solved the problem! They are going to stop feeding the pigs!
Bristol City Council in the west of England has calculated it could save 25,000 pounds (37,000 euros, 47,500 dollars) a year if it axed the mammoth amount of biscuits staff munch at meetings and official hearings.
The money could then be used to finance a scheme to curb the city's soaring seagull population by dipping the birds' eggs in oil so they do not hatch.
Deputy council leader Steve Comer came up with the idea while he was probing the local authority's catering budget and a colleague was looking into the oil-dipping trial.
"The cost of the scheme was around 30,000 pounds and I said, 'I think I've found 25,000' — by axing the biscuits," he said.
"It just seems like a luxury we can do without."
Let's see, they spend almost $50,000 each and every year to feed cookies to the staff? How big are these bureaucrats? I mean, these have got to be some hefty critters with that kind of a diet. And are they absolutely positive it's the gulls making messes? The British wonder why their taxes are so high. And why the bureaucracy is so big.
Literally.
By K T Cat, Wednesday, 30 August , 2006 @ 11:12 am
If you’re close enough to dip the egg in oil, why not just smash it?
By Gaius, Wednesday, 30 August , 2006 @ 11:21 am
A stupidly false concern for the poor little birdies. Hell, they won’t even let you beat one another with dead eels in England!