My husband and I like feeding the birds—we don’t necessarily plan to feed the pigeons, but we are not pigeon racist so we don’t try to chase them away when they frequent the feeder. You are a chicken shit neighbour when you leave a typed, anonymous note telling us we should take down our feeder or else—and that if we want to feed the birds we should sell our house and move somewhere else. Makes me wonder what type of neighbourhood we moved into. We’ve lived in our house for 10 months now, and the feeder went up shortly after we moved in, so apparently you stewed in your juices for awhile before you took the coward’s way of stuffing a note in my mailbox when no one was home. We were planning to take the feeder down for the summer anyway, but it will be going back up in the fall, because the birds need help during the winter months when food is scarce. Hopefully every single one of them shits on your car every single day. There are no city laws or ordinances against feeding the birds on my own property, but I’m pretty sure there are a few about making threats. —Bird Lovers
This article appears in Jun 14-20, 2012.
File a report with the police, give them the note.
They won’t do much, maybe talk to your neighbours…but, your complaint will be on file in case something does happen.
Then, if & when it’s time for charges, the police will have a record of everything; history, pattern, indication of “malice of forethought”.
BTW – get ready for a neighbourhood brawl.
What a shitty thing to argue about, and an equally shitty way it’s being handled. I agree that the note seems cowardly, I just wonder if they wanted to avoid a flare of tempers?
This makes me think, along with the comment telling you to move, that this idiot bird hater might have a passive aggressive approach to things. Be careful that this mess doesn’t progress to violence. Let the birds take out their shitty vengeance for you.
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“pigeon racist”
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It’s just a bird. You make a better point when you don’t say dumb shot like that.
Now, I’m with Hugo. Keep a record of this, because it is very reasonable to help the birds in winter.
Wp
“Hopefully every single one of them shits on your car every single day.”
why do you think they don’t want that feeder up anymore?
there’s a tree in the backyard of a neighbor that hangs over my assigned parking space.
every spring I start the suffering anew.
Every day there’s more bird shit and flowers/leaves strewn all across my hood/roof.
I adore those hard rain days that give me a free car wash… a few hours or reprieve before the shit rats fuck it up again.
I’m sure people think I’m a dirty, grungy skeez cruising round in a birdshit covered car…
and I’d go insane thinking about it if I bothered to care what other people think.
sadly, it seems your neighbor does.
Buy cheap offal from the supermarket. Surreptiotiously toss it onto the roof of his meth lab after dark. Watch the neighbor’s reactions as his crib becomes “Seagull Hope Cottage”
…or, do what Hugo suggested.
Ahh. The joys of underground parking.
Except instead of complaining about bird shit on cars, people just complain when you haven’t pulled your car in far enough.
Seriously.
Before you do anything….make sure your neighbor isn’t Samuel L. Jackson
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He won’t take kindly to your complaints…..
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He is a bad mother fucker……
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He will get biblical on your ass….
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Unless you own a shark….
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Or have some hamburgers….
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zZz – I do believe you can have that branch removed. Talk to your landlord.
this one’s for zilla and thomas NSFW http://video.bizhat.com/view/447/dave-chap…
hugo.. it’s a whole tree… leaning over as they have a yard on a hill 10 feet or so above the parking area.
It also doesn’t look very healthy and I can already see it ready to die and fall directly on my and several adjoining spots.
neighbors obviously don’t care based on the look of the rest of their yard.
had I any lumberjackery in me, matters would have already been dealt with.
as it stands, I have my auto insurance number on me at all times.
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lunberjackery
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MoMan will be in his bunk…
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Now, lumber*jillery*…
Wp
The pigeons love my red car, last few times I’ve washed it it gets shat on the same day. Pretty much any time I take it out. Sometimes it’s really hard to get off, I dunno if these pigeons are eating glue or what.. pissin me off..
Will check link when not at work, breadlady.
Great to see all of you yesterday 🙂
There’s a store in Mahone Bay that carry specialty bird feeders which may solve your little dilly of a pickle.
we built a platform feeder for the crows, we don’t get pigeons or seagulls. the bluejays and starlings hang around but the cars on our street are poop free
I guess OP doesnt realize that pigeon crap is toxic and not good to be around.I have one of you flying rat feeders in my hood.Their house is covered with not only pigeons,but seagulls,crows ,raccoons drop by aswell,all from the bird feeder,because they “care” about the birds.They obviously dont care about people or other animals getting sick from the bird shit everywhere,or the shit eating through someones new car paintjob.It shouldnt be fucking allowed.I dont agree with threating them ,but at the same time , the people feeding the birds need to look into how toxic ,pigeon shit is.What the silly fuckers dont realize also is that birds can look after them selves ,they’ve been doing it for thousands of years,they survive with or without us feeding them.
Fellow pigeon shit hater.
Oh yay, suckers created another troll account.
PERFECT.
Everybody Poops… or, I guess EveryTHING poops would be more appropriate.
BTW, most shit is toxic, but usually only when absorbed. When it dries out the mold and spores become airborne and you can inhale them, that’s when they become dangerous. So don’t eat ’em and don’t breath ’em and you’ll be alright. I’ve found most animals I’ve owned naturally avoid poop that doesn’t belong to them anyways.
I’d welcome more birds in my neighborhood, even if it means it’ll ruin somebody’s paint job. Because if that’s all you have to worry about, well…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KVHURoOZiY
Save the note, call the cops and report it. They could just be some pissy senior who hates birds or someone who’ll start destroying your property or nailing dead things to your doors.
Speaking of birds, this guy decided to pay me a visit while I was eating lunch today: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphot…
RAWK!
that looks like juniour, or clem, otis, sue, bob………..i haven’t named the three new ones yet
only trouble with feeding birds, is that it brings other critters around too. not only cats, buts mice,rats, sqirrells and even raccoons. and we all know about those pesky fucking coons. once you get them, they are a bitch to get rid of, short of shooting the fuckers. we have some that i see on the roof of the next door building every so often. my grand daughter loves watching them play tag on the roof. and we are talking 3 stories up here.
i have opened the garbage shed door more times than i want to think of, to be staring at a momma coon. shed is gonne now, but they still roam around, thanks to the garbage bins and dumpsters.
LS: Giant pot of water/hose. The fat bastards hate getting soaked. Wish I could try it on the dumbshit next door who doesn’t put her garbage on the curb.
Bird feeders in the winter and fall are fine but let them forage themselves the rest of the year. The free grub interferes with their breeding rituals.
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