A CBP Radio Tower Is Getting Showered In Vulture Droppings And Vomit

lastroth · January 13, 2020, 9:38pm

One suggestion mentioned in the WaPo piece was to hang a dead vulture, the thinking is that it will deter the vultures from nesting. It apparently worked with vultures in a different situation.
Why not just build a new tower since this has been going on before Trump took office? Leave the old tower in place, but put the deterrents in place on the new. Vultures have their role in nature.

rascal_crone · January 13, 2020, 9:41pm

meh, I confess that I know those facts, but would still not weep… they scavenge off carcasses and fend off other scavengers has a Republican vibe to me

navamske · January 13, 2020, 9:45pm

A CBP Radio Tower Is Getting Showered In Vulture Droppings And Vomit

Did they bring their carry-on luggage?

foodified · January 13, 2020, 9:46pm

Indeed, their livelihood is paid by creatures less fortunate. Plus they are physically grotesque. Sounds Republican.

dannydorko · January 13, 2020, 9:47pm

A CBP spokesperson told TPM in an emailed statement that the lawless birds “create a safety hazard.”

I’ve heard of flightless birds, but never lawless birds.

dannydorko · January 13, 2020, 9:52pm

Of course! It was the buzz 'eard round the world.

txlawyer · January 13, 2020, 9:52pm

In this case, their role is as metaphor.

pablointhegazebo · January 13, 2020, 9:53pm

Were any of them vulture capitalists?
It sounds like the evidence points to yes.

callmeeric · January 13, 2020, 9:53pm

illeagles

bdtex · January 13, 2020, 9:54pm

Put up a Trump scarecrow. Maybe they’ll shit on it instead.

brewhousebob · January 13, 2020, 9:56pm

She’s been whacking a lot of Red states with tornadoes, too.

dannydorko · January 13, 2020, 9:56pm

Oh, now. That’s just sick.

drtv · January 13, 2020, 9:58pm

A CBP Radio Tower Is Getting Showered In Vulture Droppings And Vomit: A Metaphor For Our Times

FIFY.

drtv · January 13, 2020, 9:59pm

Give that man a silver dollar!

longriver · January 13, 2020, 10:00pm

Actually, hydrochloric acid from the stomach’s digestive fluid is in vulture vomit. Uric acid is a product of the breakdown of purines and can be found as a dry mass in bird feces.

Yeah, I know…but I majored in Chemistry, so I couldn’t help myself.

michaelryerson · January 13, 2020, 10:10pm

'…help the agency devise a “vulture deterrence system”? Stop killing people.

rascal_crone · January 13, 2020, 10:14pm

I was going to say they were ugly - but felt it was too unfair. We can’t all be kittens and crows.

rickjones · January 13, 2020, 10:19pm

Oddly enough, The Wall seems to be keeping the vultures from flying into Mexico.

wintermoon · January 13, 2020, 10:19pm

This is a metaphor for the whole maladministration, which befouls everything it touches.

pshah · January 13, 2020, 10:26pm

Vultures have almost a sixth sense for dead things…like Trump’s border policy.