Plan to shoot down landfill vultures draws fire

Palm Beach Post ^ | 12-7-05 | Bob King

[Fawn]

Keep your heads down around Mount Pompano!!!!

[Adiemus]

Rush would have a field day covering this on his radio show. Hopefully he's seen this.

[M203M4]

...has obtained a federal wildlife permit allowing the execution of up to 100 black vultures and 200 turkey vultures...

Uh-huh. Palm Beach Post employs PETA activists?

[mnehring]

Managers of the landfill near 45th Street in suburban West Palm Beach say they’re trying to protect motorists on Florida’s Turnpike, where state troopers blame one recent crash on a close encounter of car vs. vulture.

Sounds like overreaction to me. Declare the whole thing a failure and kill the vultures because of one incident?

I'm no tree hugger, but I believe I'll side with those who want to protect the birds in this instance.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Sea gulls and dumps go together like Democrats and socialized medicine. You just can't seperate the two.

[Emmett McCarthy]

And in both cases, it's not a bad idea to leave a few dead ones in the road to discourage the others. I know it works with pigeons because they don't nest on my house anymore.

[Fawn]

I sent it to him....LOL

[Fawn]

WHat really kills me...is that people are crying down here about lack of birds....and blame cats!! They don't realize that hurricanes, urban sprawl, chemicals sprayed on lawns and from the air....and now WIldlife Commission shooting them is the real reason we don't see any birds down here anymore! Ignorance....

[wita]

Even ships at sea have their gull groupies hoping for a free handout or a free ride.

[VRWCmember]

Yeah, but when they were told that "landfill vulture" is not a derogatory term for lawyer, the protestors were satisfied and backed off.

[Ron in Acreage]

Just claim the birds will be used to feed the homeless and all will be well. Who can oppose feeding the homeless?

[pawdoggie]

Just claim the birds will be used to feed the homeless and all will be well. Who can oppose feeding the homeless?

A "Vegan" and/or a PETA member?

[Niteranger68]

In the same area, a 13-month-old girl almost drowned in a canal last year after her aunt swerved to avoid an unidentified, low-flying bird.

The problem here was the driver, not the bird.

[USS Alaska]

I've driven by those Florida landfills and the sharpshooter will need a gatling gun on the side of a C-130 if they want to see any progress on reducing the number of birds.

Put a couple of kids with sling shoots out there and they will be able to kill the 600 birds that they've agreed to before noon.

What a joke. Those birds are like demonRAT voters waiting for the "voting bus" just moving from one garbage dump to the next.

[Covenantor]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service defends the strategy, saying ....Once shot, the birds are supposed to be displayed as a deterrent.

Ummm....do they really think that carrion eaters will be deterred by more dead meat?

[russesjunjee]

One thing to consider is the size of a vulture. They are huge birds and can have up to a five foot wing span. They can easily break a windhsield or spread their wings in front of the windshield blinding the driver.

I had this happen to me last year, and I went into the ditch simply because the vulture totally blocked my field of vision when he spread his wings in front of my windshield.

[GSlob]

The ambulance chasers are to be counted as vultures for the purposes of this permit.

[norraad]

Now we're getting somewhere!

[Chinito]

I just love plinkin' at buzzards...

[Fawn]

Ummm....do they really think that carrion eaters will be deterred by more dead meat?

Good point.