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You, There! Step Away From The Bird Feeder!

Yep, some elements on the left want the United States to be more like Europe. Like this? A local council in Britain has threatened a pensioner and his wife with legal action - unless the couple cease and desist the hideous practice of….

…..feeding birds.

Far from an attempt to live in harmony with nature, the customary ritual of helping birds in their daily search for food has been branded a dangerous practice that must be stopped.

After receiving a complaint from a neighbour, environmental health officers wrote a letter to the Dunnys informing them they were causing a noise nuisance and attracting dirt and possibly disease to their village.

The letter, from Berwick Upon Tweed council, said: 'Birds cause some considerable problem in forms of noise and dirt.

Not only do their droppings damage and contaminate property, the birds also carry various diseases such as salmonella.

'If they are encouraged into an area and build nests, these nests can cause problems, such as blocking chimneys, flues and gutters. Food put out for the birds will also attract rats and vermin.

'If we establish that a nuisance or pest problem does exist, we may have to consider further action.'

Mr Dunny, 69, a retired foreman and joiner, has branded the demand as 'completely crazy' and vowed to continue putting food out for his feathered friends.

He and his wife live in the Northumberland village of Belford, where garden bird tables are a common sight.

He said: 'Let them put me in jail. . . it's just crazy. What do they mean by noise?

Yep. I really want to be more like Europe, don't you?

My ancestors had the good sense and taste to either be thrown out of old Europe (father's side) or flee the oppressive policies there (mother's side). I have no intention of being "more like Europe." Neither should you.

Left Wing, World news | Gaius Sunday, 10 August , 2008

By rightwingprof, Monday, 11 August , 2008 @ 4:32 am

Here, we are strongly encouraged (note the last two words) to bring in bird feeders when the bears are out of hibernation, because bears love bird seed. There is no law, however, requiring us to do so.
By syn, Monday, 11 August , 2008 @ 7:05 am

I don’t want to be like Europe however considering the two presidential candidates it would appear that the Centrists (ie moderade, independent like Nanny Bloomberg-Schwarzennegger want to be like the Leftists who want to be like European failures.
It’s not just the Left which has gone crazy insane, moderates are really no different. Other than victory in Iraq, what difference is there between McCain and Obama, both want an authoritarian centralized statist government. Both want to end our Republic.
By martian, Monday, 11 August , 2008 @ 1:04 pm

"Food put out for the birds will also attract rats and vermin."

I love that line and I have a question, attract them from where? The next county? Scotland? Wales? I have this mental picture of one rat nudging another rat and saying (in their little rat laguage) "Look, George, there goes a hungry bird. Let’s follow him so we can see where he’s getting his food from." If the rats and vermin weren’t already within sniffing distance of the food, they aren’t going to be attracted to it. Which means that any rats and vermin that show up already live in the neighborhood anyway.

It reminds me of an incident that happened when I was a child. My family was renting half of a double house. A friend had a pet rabbit that he needed to give away, I forget why. So, I asked my parents and they let me have the rabbit (my parents believed in children having pets). Well, I had the rabbit for about two years when the landlord’s wife figured out I had it. She immediatly raised the roof demanding that we had to get rid of that thing immediatly or it would "call mice into the house". Never mind that we had the rabbit for two years prior to this and hadn’t seen a single rodent. And do rabbits even speak mouse? This stupidity in England is just a silly.
By Mockinbird, Monday, 11 August , 2008 @ 2:57 pm

Good for Mr. Dunny.
It not like the birds can apply for council welfare payments. And they got no pockets to put their coins in.
If humans don’t feed the birds, then the birdswon’t eat up the food and the rats will come in.
Never forget that mockingbirds will divebomb the rats; and I oughta know.
A fed bird is a happy bird.
By Mwalimu Daudi, Monday, 11 August , 2008 @ 4:11 pm

Does this mean that when Mary Poppins sang, "Feed the Birds" it was a hate crime against humanity? Wow. Who knew? Those EUtopians or sooooo smart!