Company Hired To Shock Pigeons To Rid Them Before GOP Convention

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Delegates to the Republican National Convention and reporters covering it will be able to avoid one hazard of city life that bedeviled postal patrons for years.

Pigeons and other birds that once landed on the historic James A. Farley Post Office building in New York and sent waste hurtling down have been convinced to find another outhouse, with the help of a few electric shocks from a New Jersey company, the postal service said.

The post office at 34th Street in Manhattan will be the media center for the GOP gathering, which is to take place across the street at Madison Square Garden starting at the end of the month.

In June 2002, a half-year before New York was chosen for the convention, the post office awarded a contract to Bell Environmental Services of Parsippany to get rid of the birds, postal service spokesman Gary Ferrari said recently.

"We did it to avert a safety and health hazard," Ferrari said.

Work was completed in early 2003. "It's been very good," he said.

Bell founder and president Phil Waldorf said solar-powered strips his crew installed along ledges and columns deliver a nonfatal shock to birds who land on them.

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/08/10/shocking_company_charges_birds_to_end_bombardment/

Actually, there was a plot by Al Qaeda to co-opt the pigeons, feed them ricin or sarin laced feed and have them shit all over the delegates to cause another mass murder at the RNC.

I think our government reacted properly in light of this evidence.

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Could make for a very interesting convention. :) :) :)

along the West Side Highway

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pigeon nor heard of anyone who was.