Birds Hit Planes Every Day, but Don't Usually Cause Crashes (Environmentalists nix clearing birds)

ABC News ^ | 01/16/2009 | NA

[prisoner6]

Exceprt:

Andrew Maloney, an attorney and partner with Kreindler & Kreindler LLP in Manhattan, said the US Airways crash will very likely have a major impact on ongoing discussions about the bird problem at New York's LaGuardia Airport, where the plane took off today.

Maloney, whose firm specializes in aviation issues, said city and Port Authority officials want to clear the area surrounding LaGuardia Airport of birds, but environmentalists don't want the birds, mostly seagulls and Canada geese, disturbed from their nesting grounds.

LaGuardia, he said, was built on swampland and the main runway is just hundreds of yards away from Riker's Island, which with its grassy areas, trees and water access is prime nesting ground for birds.

[CPOSharky]

"Birds Hit Planes Everday..."

Yeah, right.

Plane hits bird is more like it.

[6SJ7]

“As God is my witness, I thought environmentalists could fly!”

[ken21]

if there’s a choice between environmentalists and us on

planet earth, then we should take appropriate actions!

/s

[samtheman]

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s SuperGore! (Plummeting to earth. And oh, my, what Gore at the bottom.)

[samtheman]

Bush’s fault.

Wow. What's the Left going to do without these 2 words.

Oh, I know. They're going to keep using them anyway, for years into the future.

[Western Phil]

Don't know about the hybrid business, but we have lived in east central Illinois for 40 years. When we first came here, there were no local geese in the summer. The only ones we saw were the migratory ones flying high in the fall & spring. Soon there were a few that stayed the summer & nested. The fish & wildlife people told us that these were a slightly bigger variety which had been exterminated locally in the pioneer days. There were some survivors & the area was being restocked.

Now we have many more or less nonmigratory geese which disappear when the local lakes freeze over. Large flocks move south & north depending on the weather. I suspect that is what they saw in New York yesterday. Large flocks of geese going south a little ways to try to avoid a little cold. It is a problem resulting from the annual failure of global warming.

[Western Phil]

The problem is too many geese, too few hunters.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Maloney, whose firm specializes in aviation issues, said city and Port Authority officials want to clear the area surrounding LaGuardia Airport of birds, but environmentalists don’t want the birds, mostly seagulls and Canada geese, disturbed from their nesting grounds.”

Sue the environmentalists.

Bankrupt them. That is what Reagan would do.

[rusty millet]

While you are at it, take out the migratory blackbirds.

[Doc Savage]

Kill the damn birds. Enough is enough. There are a Quntillian number of birds alive on the this planet. When was the last time you got up in the morning and thought, “ Gee, I don’t think I get through the day because the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is extinct. 95% of all species that have ever lived are extinct. Who the hell cares! Shoot em, poison em, burn em or anything else you can think of. Absolute insanity. Maybe we should all strip down and sit in cages for PETA!

[Doc Savage]

Every kill, everyWHERE MATTERS Dufus!