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Some people don't mind pigeons. Other people in other places in New York –– Mike Tyson, from Brownsville, say, or Bert, from "Sesame Street" -- love pigeons. Here in Port Washington, we loathe pigeons, despise them, as Diane said to Sam, "with the white-hot passion of a thousand suns."


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So we contracted the architectural firm of Torquemada & Sade to devise a way to keep the pigeons away from the train station. Borrowing ideas from the Iron Maiden and the "hedgehog" obstacles from the Normandy landing, the architects have laid no fewer than 8 million pencil-like barbs across every beam and flat surface at the train station. Because nothing says "Please keep off" like a razor-tipped spike up the anus.


John Eastwood
1/13/2012 11:36:02 pm

One of the first articles I wrote while at the undergrad student paper was about how the campus was getting a bunch of convulsively dying pigeons. I traced the problem to a nearby church that had started using special poisoned feed that was supposed to make the birds merely uncomfortable. Believe it or not, the spike-up-the-anus method is supposed to be considerably more humane than earlier systems.

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DV
1/17/2012 10:45:23 am

Yes, John, I'm sure. And I'm sure if they had offered Socrates the spike up the anus over the cup of hemlock, that he would have really gone for that!

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George Vecsey
1/19/2012 05:10:55 am

The worst is seeing one parking spot under the trees by the Haven Diner, and having two minutes to catch your train, but knowing when you get home your car will be covered in vile material that no hose could ever soften. What a choice.




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