My husband and I were coming out of the grocery store when we saw three teenage boys trying to coax a seagull down with something in his hand. My husband got suspicious because one of them had a small video camera and all of them were laughing. As he walked over they tossed something to the bird.
So my husband, who is very intimidating looking, asked them what they were doing.
Well, one of them says he's feeding the birds mints! Any bird I know would be repelled by mints, and this they would be taping and laughing at??
Turns out they were throwing them Alka Seltzer tabs!
My husband had heard of this before as he had helped the janitor at his school pick up corpses of pigeons who had eaten them. They fizz up in their small stomachs and cause then to rupture and they swell up and other gruesome things I didn't want to print.
So anyway, he tells them he thinks the need to get the hell gone and they said, Ok, we don't want any trouble. so they head for the McDonalds across the street to try it there, but we saw them, followed them, got their license numbers and called the Cops. Amazingly enough, the cops took it seriously, went to their homes and confronted them and told their parents, gave them appearance tickets and they were fined! And the one boy's parents took away his car! I was floored. Didn't really expect the Cops to do anything!
I had never heard of the Alka Seltzer thing before despite 30 of involvement in animal issues.
So my husband, who is very intimidating looking, asked them what they were doing.
Well, one of them says he's feeding the birds mints! Any bird I know would be repelled by mints, and this they would be taping and laughing at??
Turns out they were throwing them Alka Seltzer tabs!
My husband had heard of this before as he had helped the janitor at his school pick up corpses of pigeons who had eaten them. They fizz up in their small stomachs and cause then to rupture and they swell up and other gruesome things I didn't want to print.
So anyway, he tells them he thinks the need to get the hell gone and they said, Ok, we don't want any trouble. so they head for the McDonalds across the street to try it there, but we saw them, followed them, got their license numbers and called the Cops. Amazingly enough, the cops took it seriously, went to their homes and confronted them and told their parents, gave them appearance tickets and they were fined! And the one boy's parents took away his car! I was floored. Didn't really expect the Cops to do anything!
I had never heard of the Alka Seltzer thing before despite 30 of involvement in animal issues.