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Boston Window Washer Fired After Killing Sea Gull
CBS4 ^
| June 12, 2006
Posted on 06/12/2006 8:25:10 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BOSTON A high-rise window washer in Boston has been fired because he killed a sea gull on the job.
Christopher Guay was washing windows at a building on Devonshire Street last Friday. He told WBZ Radios Carl Stevens he was being harassed by sea gulls.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: guay; gull; mspca; seagull; windowwasher
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To: DTogo
Sea gulls are predators. These birds can strike savagely and have strong beaks. Coming at you in a full drive they have the weight to damage you severely. You are lucky if you aren't cut up on the head, face, ears or eyes. I rescued a wounded gull one time that a hunter had deliberately wounded when I was in the border Patrol. The $%#^% thing nearly took out my eye.
Finally clamped down on my finger with its vise of a beak and held on while we took it to an animal shelter. Never again.
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posted on
06/12/2006 9:21:37 PM PDT
by
dvan
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
To: ncountylee
Wanna' bet that this MSPCA officer thinks that Jonathan Livingston Seagull is one of the classics?
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posted on
06/12/2006 9:36:49 PM PDT
by
Clink
("Government is not the solution, government is the problem".--Ronald Reagan)
To: DemforBush
I'm surprised no one's posted the lyrics for Humperdink's song
lesbian seagull yet.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
WWAD
What Would Algoron Do?
To: DemforBush
LOL, I had the same thought.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Hillary calls for 14 day waiting period on broom handle sales, ponders legislation to outlaw sticks.
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posted on
06/12/2006 9:59:40 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl!)
To: rawcatslyentist
She knows about brooms. It is her mode of transportation.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Feed them McDonald french fries...
To: rawcatslyentist
Hillary calls for 14 day waiting period on broom handle sales, ponders legislation to outlaw sticks. But that's her main mode of transportation.
To: MrCruncher
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posted on
06/12/2006 10:07:52 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
I have personally ran over a large magpie in the street.....and no, it only seemed like I was aiming for it......
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posted on
06/12/2006 10:21:17 PM PDT
by
cherry
(.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
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posted on
06/12/2006 10:37:05 PM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Wake Up, America!))))
To: free_at_jsl.com
uh oh ...that picture..looks like seagull profiling...is that another crime in Boston ?
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posted on
06/12/2006 10:41:20 PM PDT
by
billmor
(I Like Ike)
To: taxesareforever
That is totally different. Killing a seagull is bad luck for sailors. :)
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posted on
06/12/2006 10:44:23 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Theyd sit up about 20 feet, then dive in, he said. They hit me twice in the head. Guay said he moved to an attached roof at 161 Devonshire St., but the gulls followed. He eventually started swinging a broken broom handle, hoping to scare them off and give himself time to slip over the buildings edge and out of the birds sight. Id been doing it all day, fending them off, he said. It was working until I made my last drop . . . When I swung I wasnt aiming. I didnt mean to hit it. It flew right into the broom stick. I knew it was dead. Office workers witnessing the 3:30 p.m. strike called the MSPCA, which responded with one of the agencys 11 police officers"Hey look, they got him again. He's amost over the edge, trying to get away. Look he's swingin at em lively bugger. Ohhhh.
It's not movin'. I...I think he KILLED IT. OH THE HORROR! Quick call the police!
Nasty bastids.
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posted on
06/12/2006 10:52:51 PM PDT
by
Dosa26
To: demlosers
Feed them McDonald french fries...I wouldn't want to see super-sized seagulls divebombing window washers!
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
So anyway, this game warden catches this disheveled guy on the beach with a campfire and a bird roasting over it. There are seagull feathers all over. The game warden explains to the guy that it is illegal to kill Seagulls and he is going to have to write a citation.
The guy explains that he was starving and the seagull was very lame, so he thought he'd kill two "birds" with one stone by killing it and getting himself a hot meal.
Having pity on the starving man, the warden gave him a stern warning and started to walk away. But suddenly he turned around and asked the man, "My curiosity is killing me. I've always wondered - What does seagull taste like."
The man furled his brow thoughtfully for a moment and finally said, "It's sort of a cross between Spotted Owl and Bald Eagle."
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posted on
06/12/2006 11:00:33 PM PDT
by
RobRoy
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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posted on
06/12/2006 11:12:26 PM PDT
by
MistrX
To: demlosers
French Fries, Scchmench Fries.
What you want to feed them are a few Alka-Selzers.
They can't burp. You'll see red from their exploded crop in an hour.
I had my own run-ins with the critters at Presidio of Monterey doing repairs to a clinic. These are the most hateful creatures in the world once they are after you. I required stitches on my temple due to an attack. Happy to see them dead.
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posted on
06/13/2006 12:03:51 AM PDT
by
dersepp
(I Am A Militia Of One)
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