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Falling, Dead Pigeons Mar City Festival
AP - Mercury News. ^
| Sep 13, 9:03 AM EDT
| AP
Posted on 09/13/2006 8:42:27 AM PDT by rface
Edited on 09/13/2006 8:47:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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EXARKANA, Texas (AP) -- 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.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: exarkana; fallingt; flyingrats; nolongertexarkana; skeetshoot
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great PR for CapitalOne Bank
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:42:27 AM PDT
by
rface
To: rface
McMillen said the bank hired an exterminator to handle its pigeon problem after a bird entered the bank and defecated on a customer.
Poor bird was just making a deposit...
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:44:10 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: rface
A spotlight and a pellet gun after midnight would have been just as effective.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:45:01 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: rface
ya just gotta love Texas!
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:45:35 AM PDT
by
tje
To: rface
To: rface
Death was sometimes an unfortunate side effect, company president Jarrod Horton said. I'm sorry, but I couldn't help to laugh at that statement.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:45:40 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: rface
""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.
"
No, they didn't want to harm the roof rats. They wanted to EXTERMINATE them. Sounds like a good plan.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:45:45 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(Non-evangelical Atheist)
To: rface; cripplecreek
I know dead birds always rain on my parade.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:45:55 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: rface
Sheesh! This happened in Texas!
The bank should have handed out shotguns with birdshot to "the children" and the festival would have been enjoyed by everyone!
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:46:01 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: dfwgator
To: rface
I am sorry, but for some reason the thought of hundreds of pigeons falling from the sky just hits me as humorous. Obviously it is not, but it hits me that way.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:47:24 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
To: rface
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:47:30 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
(Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
To: Froufrou
Dead birds keep falling on my head,
But that doesn't mean my scalp will soon be turnin' red.
Bleedings not for me
But birds keep on falling; they keep on falling
Yet still I bleed.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:48:19 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(Non-evangelical Atheist)
To: rface
Falling Dead Pigeons - great name for a garage band...
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:49:15 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Free Introspection Classes - Inquire Within)
To: rface
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:49:57 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: Libertarian444
Thank-you for posting that link!
To: commish
"I am sorry, but for some reason the thought of hundreds of pigeons falling from the sky just hits me as humorous."
To paraphrase Les Nessman, "As God is my witness, I thought pigeons could fly."
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:50:42 AM PDT
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: MineralMan
It was horrible Johnny.
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:50:59 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: ClearCase_guy
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:51:29 AM PDT
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: rface
great PR for CapitalOne Bank Reminded me of that episode on WKRP..the one where they threw live turkeys from a plane as PR for Thanksgiving...LOL!
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posted on
09/13/2006 8:52:33 AM PDT
by
Mad Dash
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