Poisoning Pigeons In The Part - Part Deux

Texarkana, Texas was the scene of the latest pigeon dive bomber attacks. The last time we wrote about the animal uprising air force pigeon patrol (or squab-ron) was back when they attacked a hospital in Schenectady, New York. This time they went after the Texarkana annual festival.

TEXARKANA, Texas - Poisoned pigeons began nose-diving into pavement and dying on downtown sidewalks, marring the city's annual festival.

Authorities cleaned up more than 25 sick or dead birds that apparently had eaten poisoned corn from the roof of a nearby bank branch.

"The death of these pigeons was more than an unfortunate accident," local CapitalOne Bank President Lacy McMillen said in Tuesday's online edition of Texarkana Gazette. "It was not the intention of the bank to harm any of these birds."

McMillen said the bank hired an exterminator to handle its pigeon problem after a bird entered the bank and defecated on a customer.

The company hired, Anti-Pest Co. Inc. of Shreveport, La., said its goal with the treated corn was to sicken pigeons so they would leave the rooftop. Death was sometimes an unfortunate side effect, company president Jarrod Horton said.

As we said before, this was no accident. Power diving pigeons of perdition are nothing to laugh at.