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.
Things I love about this
1. A bird pooped on a bank customer
2. Dead pigeons dropping from the sky
3. Dead pigeons dropping from the sky onto a street festival.
4. Dead pigeons dropping, mid-poop, onto mimes and sticky children during the reenactment of The Alamo (I read between the lines for that one.)
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Hey! This did NOT happen in EP!
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That'll teach 'em to have uncontrollable bowels. I swear - you have the most entertaining life.
I saw a picture on the news. I am no great pigeon lover, but piles of pigeons on the ground with some of them still moving and flapping--GROSS and SAD (sort of.)
I think this was a boner candidate.
You know what I really like about this post? That the quote came from the Texarkana Gazette.
FRAWESOME!
The birds at North Texas U were/are famous for pooping all over students, especially but the library. So to scare them off, the school lit fireworks off the roofs of the dorms - but unfortunately, their problem became over a hundred birds all over campus, who had died of little birdie heart attacks. So the question was, which is better - bird poo all over the campus, or decomposing birds all over campus. Either way, it was pretty funny:)
"Dead pigeons dropping, mid-poop, onto mimes and sticky children during the reenactment of The Alamo (I read between the lines for that one.)"
I, for one, am very glad you read between those lines because your reading skills have given me a case of the snarky giggles :)
Doesn't life just have a way of working out like that? The very day you decide to poison pigeons is the day they drop dead from the sky onto a street festival.....
I hate pigeons...they are like flying rats. Ewwww.
Oh Jen, wow, flying, dying out of the skying pigeons, Ikaika is still laughing! Crap...no seriously, crap.
You know me--always trying to get Ikaika to laugh!
That's just funny......
One time I was at my kids' school carnival and out of the hundreds of people that were out on the playground, the fuh-lippin' seagull pooped on me. I coulda used this story that day! Pigeons and Seagulls are related, aren't they?
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