NationStates Jolt Archive


Take one for the environment

The Sutured Psyche
14-04-2006, 20:53
Or: Why downtown Orlando is really shitty this time of year.

Signs warning of bird droppings were posted along a stretch in downtown Orlando this week after cars, benches, sidewalks, plants and even people are hit and covered by the white bird waste, according to a Local 6 News report.

The problem began when city workers removed cypress trees on "bird island" at Lake Eola in Orlando.

The trees had to be removed because the bird droppings were polluting the water, according to the report.

Now, the birds have moved into the city and are covering anything and anyone between Lake Eola and Central Avenue with droppings.

"You have to brace yourself for the smell," downtown resident James Taylor said. "It is a really bad stench. It is disgusting, absolutely disgusting."

"I was walking the other day and got pooed on walking under these trees," Orlando resident Lisa Valentine said. "Somebody told me it was good luck."

"The white film cakes the light posts along Lake Eloa," Local 6 reporter Todd Jurkowski said. "It is on the sidewalks and on the plants."

Officials said Orlando city workers pressure wash a stretch of the sidewalk at least twice a week.

Signs with the warning, "Caution -- Entering Bird Dropping Area" were posted Tuesday.

"Don't sit on the benches, unless you are very brave," resident Jeff Miller said.

Some people don't let the bird droppings bother them and continue to eat lunch around the droppings.

"Based on what I saw on that car, I got to believe there is no (expletive) left in them," resident Alex Hartley said.

Federal law prohibits the bird nests in Orlando from being disturbed.

Source:http://www.local6.com/news/8182571/detail.html


Now, I understand the value of biodiversity and all but sometimes a line must be drawn. A rain of disease ridden, water polluting, reeking feces isn't just over the line, its in the next county...
Drunk commies deleted
14-04-2006, 20:58
Why don't they introduce some natural predators, like eagles, hawks, or sky whales.

http://i2.tinypic.com/vgioh0.jpg
Desperate Measures
14-04-2006, 21:01
The environment scores a point.
Asbena
14-04-2006, 21:02
Psych(adelic)otic Japanese Paintings?!
That makes no sense!
Drunk commies deleted
14-04-2006, 21:06
Psych(adelic)otic Japanese Paintings?!
That makes no sense!
It's the only picture of sky whales I could find. They float through the air with their mouths open swallowing flocks of birds like sea whales swallow krill. Their droppings are bigger than bird droppings, but they're at least concentrated unlike birds, which crap all over the place.
Asbena
14-04-2006, 21:09
It's the only picture of sky whales I could find. They float through the air with their mouths open swallowing flocks of birds like sea whales swallow krill. Their droppings are bigger than bird droppings, but they're at least concentrated unlike birds, which crap all over the place.

Remind me that when you get a whale dropping on your car and it breaks it. Those would be DEADLY!
Drunk commies deleted
14-04-2006, 21:10
Remind me that when you get a whale dropping on your car and it breaks it. Those would be DEADLY!
Yeah, 100 pounds of whale feces dropping on you from 2000 feet could be a problem.
Desperate Measures
14-04-2006, 21:11
http://www.airwhale.com/gallery/displaydyn.asp?did=1

Always go to Maxx for your answers.
IL Ruffino
14-04-2006, 21:11
*shrugs*
I hate florida.
Asbena
14-04-2006, 21:12
Yeah, 100 pounds of whale feces dropping on you from 2000 feet could be a problem.

Grossest thing is we had so many pigeons they layed down so much waste that people wouldn't drive on specific roads in fear of dirtying their cars....
Call to power
14-04-2006, 21:45
at least there not violent seagulls like on the coast (one stole my sausage roll right from my hand!)...but what if they breed man would have nowhere to hide! (apart from bays because seagulls worry about nicknames :D )
Ifreann
14-04-2006, 21:52
Or introduce an unnatural predator, the shotgun. Instead of raining bird shit it would be raining birds. :)
Call to power
14-04-2006, 21:57
http://www.alldumb.com/item/25654/

I’ve been waiting months to use that
Drunk commies deleted
14-04-2006, 22:05
http://www.alldumb.com/item/25654/

I’ve been waiting months to use that
That was nice. I enjoyed that.
Zanato
14-04-2006, 22:15
Hmm, I should take a trip Downtown and see if this is as bad as it's being made out to be.
Seosavists
14-04-2006, 22:18
"Based on what I saw on that car, I got to believe there is no (expletive) left in them,"
Shit is an expletive?
Lunatic Goofballs
14-04-2006, 22:22
Reminds me of a running cadence when I was in the Navy. Went like this:

"Little birdy in the sky...

Dropped some whitewash in my eye...

I'm not worried, I won't cry....

I'm just glad that cows don't fly."

:)