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Posted by tanklord on March 21, 2005 at 09:37:23 from (64.19.243.218):
In Reply to: O.T sea gulls... posted by john Indiana on March 21, 2005 at 08:02:32:
They are a big problem on offshore oil platforms. fake owls and crows worked for a little while, but they soon wise up. How about pyrotechnic devices, such as flares, cherry bombs, etc. maybe that will work. Now what I am about to say is something I witnessed, but I didn't do it, wink wink. Seems birds can't pass gas or belch. Some rig hands with too much time on their hands would take vienna sausages, cut them in half, insert a half a tab of alka seltzer into said sausage, then throw them to the gulls. Said gulls would them swallow sausage whole. A few minutes later that bird would swell up like a balloon. 100% mortality rate.
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