More posts on pigeons

NYT on a remedy to eradicate all pigeons from New York.

Well I must say I am not a fan of pigeons , though i might end up being one after all this hatred that they are being subjected to. Apparently, they are the scum that dirties our streets.

The report says

A pigeon dispenses about 25 pounds of excrement a year. Often this gunk must be blasted off hard-to-reach places using boom lifts and steam hoses. Pigeon-related damage in America has been estimated to cost $1.1 billion a year.

Here is the best quote of the piece -
“At the end of the day, pigeons are there because we’re filthy, dirty creatures,” Merchant told me. “They’re there because we’re stupid creatures who go on feeding them.” They are the heroes of a great co-evolutionary success story. One ornithologist has crowned them “superdoves.” The less deferential way of saying this is, we’ve taken an otherwise unobjectionable bird and built the perfect pest.

“Most of the pigeon feeders are in some way crazy,” he said, summarizing, rather informally, a psychological study he helped write on the subject. “It is impossible to influence these people.” The most relentless have no family and few interpersonal relationships. They adopt pigeons as surrogate children. He described women — older women — who worked as phone-sex operators and prostitutes to pay for birdseed. This may be the pigeon’s greatest co-evolutionary triumph: the black magic whereby these grubbing little birds have sought out their depredated, human counterparts and transformed them into senseless disciples.

Go and feed a pigeon, let it fly into the murky metropolis sky and then shit on you. Kabootar ja ja ja...

Pelican swallows pigeon

Was this just a one time occurence, or have pelicans been eating pigeons all this while without humans noticing it...ok well that was a bad joke. But that just happened yesterday evening at St James's Park

Families and tourists in a London park were left shocked when a pelican picked up and swallowed a pigeon.

The unusual wildlife spectacle in St James's Park was caught on camera by photographer Cathal McNaughton.

He said the Eastern White pelican had the unfortunate pigeon in its beak for more than 20 minutes before swallowing it whole.

An RSPB spokesman said: "It is almost unheard of for a pelican to eat a bird. Their diet should be strictly fish."

"There was a bit of a struggle for about 20 minutes, with all these people watching. The pelican only opened its mouth a couple of times.

"Then it managed to get the pigeon to go head first down its throat. It was kicking and flapping the whole way down."

Who is gonna eat who next...Any idea?...

What happens when your CV goes on Youtube, you dont get a job, you become a celebrity...hurray!
Imagine your CV goes online, there are two things either you make an ass of yourself or you get the chance of catching teh attention of Donald Trump and other tycoons and your life changes altogether. Not for My Vayner though, who ended up doing the former and his video CV was all over youtube.com.

Extracts from the Guardian news report
For Aleksey Vayner, "success is a mental phenomenon, not a physical one." Notoriety, however, is something else. The 23-year-old "CEO and professional athlete" has achieved a celebrity of sorts after an 11-page job application and accompanying video he submitted to a bank leaked onto the internet and turned him into the latest subject of online humiliation. Mr Vayner has decided to take a break from Yale. He is still looking for a job.

Well lets see who else went to Yale, and is now an embarrassment to his country, oh yes its George Bush.

Last of all here is the Video CV for everyone to laugh their ass off.

Fancy a rave at the Great Wall Of China
BBC reports that the Chinese government has finally banned all-night music raves and parties at the Great Wall of Chine,. It is quite sad actually, though it is quite surprising that it was allowed in the first place.


Partying and all-night music raves are to be banned from parts of the Great Wall as China imposes laws to protect its top tourist attraction.
Writing and driving on the wall are also among several activities that are being prohibited, the government said.
The rules will include the banning of parties and all-night raves which have become increasingly common along parts of the wall near Beijing, the BBC's Dan Griffiths in the Chinese capital reports.

Imagine a rave taking place at the Taj Mahal, I have never been there and don’t plan to but if it was to ever host a rave, I might think about it.