No kidding, I don’t
know how to say it and it isn’t in the dictionary. Maybe they don’t have them
here. I just spent 45 minutes on Google trying to come up with a way to get rid
of the pigeons in the back area of my new building. The other methods didn't seem to be particularly effective so I thought to myself, "What would Clint Eastwood do?" And then I thought, "What would an adolescent Clint Eastwood do?"
Violence or
non-violence? I could go either way if I don’t have to be raised from my sleep
at 06:30 by the mad cooing of a half dozen of this species of flying rat. I
know someone who had a pigeon trapped in her apartment for a weekend while she
was away and it did more damaged than a party hosted by a rock drummer, so
don’t tell me that they are harmless. I’m
not looking for a wholesale slaughter of these flying pests, but they don’t seem
to respond to any reasonable requests to vacate the area. It’s not like I’m
opposed to a mass killing of these horrible city dwellers, but I just don’t want
to get personally involved.
It’s hard to pin down
what I dislike the most about these foul creatures, but the noises they make
rate high on my list. First, there is that awful cooing, and then there is that
even more vulgar squawky thing they do which sounds like the aforementioned
rock drummer drowning on his own vomit.
Afterward
No rock
drummers were killed in the making of this essay. Since it took me over 15 minutes to write
this, I’m sure that a rock drummer or two died as the result of some very
unnatural cause, but I had nothing to do with it.
According to the sporting goods store on c/Espoz y Mina in Madid (jut off Puerta del Sol)they're pistsolas de perdigones (or rifles, but I think they're sold more in short-arm form)The perdigones can be little round metal balls, or plastic mini-bullets, the latter I think being more common. )I know because I asked about them once, but now for birds. I was seriously thinking about using one to disperse the brats doing botellón on my street.
ReplyDeleteI meant to post this link as well.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.google.es/search?q=pistola+de+perdigones&hl=es&rlz=1C1RNCN_enES329ES329&nord=1&biw=1024&bih=673&site=webhp&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=zvAnTp28D5DbsgbXzfGxCQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBkQ_AUoAQ
Thanks. I looked on wordreference and all they had was air rifle. I am seriously considering this purchase if just to scare them a bit. I see this as a fairly slippery slope, however, as I could see myself becoming some sort of pigeon Ahab.
ReplyDeleteTalk to the porteros on your new street, or some of the oldsters. Depends where the birds hang out. I've seen some people hang old CDs on plastic string on balconies because the reflections scare the birds.Are you sure someone isn't feeding them? There's a loon on my block who puts out crumbs, but the porteros are hip to her now and pretty much scare her away.
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