The CBC Still Has Too Many Reporters

A billion bucks a year and none of them include “tennis racket”: 5 ways to avoid being attacked by crows

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I used to have this little trick for dealing with crows. It comes in different sizes 12 gauge, 16 gauge, and .410 are the most common. Worked every time.

While a shotgun is quite effective in this regard, you won’t get far in a major Canadian conurbation carrying one. For city use, I find a 7-iron is also quite effective – short enough to carry comfortably and to wield quickly, yet still heavy enough to do the job. Lower numbered irons also work, but are longer and more unwieldy.

A leg-hold trap (gopher size) fits the bill. A tasty morsel stuck on a hair trigger setting works nicely. The squawking is temporary.
If pesky felines are an issue, place in high inaccessible location (or not). (Not wanting to incur the wrath of Black Mamba) :~0

I remember the day of the leg hold trap. If you set a row of traps on fence posts by the pig pen you could catch a nice assortment of crows, magpies, and songbirds. They could clean out a hill of gophers pretty quickly too.

“The CBC Still Has Too Many Reporters”
Reporters?? No.For at least the last 30 yrs they have had ZERO reporters.Hacks,propagrandists,commies,flakes,etc. Yes.Way to many of them.

“they won’t bully you without reason”
Because crows are more “reasonable” than humans.
Are all the people at the CBC as patronizing and feebleminded as the author?
(That’s a rhetorical question)
From the 10 million dollar computer generated road signs telling me to “wear my seatbelt” and “don’t text and drive”, and the police on TV and radio telling me all winter to “stay off ice” that’s three feet thick and could support a freight train, even Ontario Hydro telling me fishing in front of dams is going to kill me with million dollar incessant advertising, I’m getting sick up and fed of being lectured to continuously by overpaid gubment idiots who aren’t smart enough to tell me what to do while they spend my money like crows eat garbage.
It’s a ####ing bird it’s not a problem, cut my taxes and shut the #### up!

Hell, a gloved hand will do just fine.

What Scar said.
And while you’re at it, let’s have a cull on Canada Geese. You can’t walk in parks or swim in lakes thanks to their feces all over the place and the bacterial count that makes the water unsafe for humans.

Journalists are devoid of any critical thinking skills they merely regurgitate the dominant talking points of the day.Case in point:
10 days ago a bear had to be shot in West Vancouver after it ripped the double hinged door of a garage and was buse eating food from the freezer.In the little news story the brain dead journalist concluded :that the event only reinforced “the need for all of us to follow the Bear Network advice to remove all attractants from our yards and not put our garbage out until the morning of pick up.” The story actually demonstrated the exact opposite when all attractants ie berries bird seed etc is removed and all garbage is left in garages the bears will go where the food is. Please note that West Vancouver is now on a bi weekly garbage pick up with a mandated food scraps recycling green bin. One of the recommendation is to keep the garbage in a freezer if possible.(outside of the obvious hygiene-health concerns)this story demonstrates the foolishness of this advice.

Frank Q., exactly. If all the municipal golf courses supplied hunters early, (from 5:30: till 7: AM before golfers are allowed access) rentable blinds on their courses, us hunters would pay good money and clean up the goose problem quickly.

My favourite crow joke.
http://www.kulfoto.com/funny-pictures/37242/attempted-murder

I like the last one, “wait it out”. You are powerless against the Might of Gaia, there’s nothing you can do. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
Sage advice for the well-behaved liberal urban prole.
My advice would include bird shot, but then I’m a free(ish) man living in a (mostly) civilized setting, not some precious, over controlled planned community. Crows never attack out here, they know who the scary predators are.
More practical perhaps in the prolish urban setting than a .410, an umbrella. But not the usual sucky WalMart Chicom one. A -real- umbrella.
http://real-self-defense.com/unbreakable-umbrella/