You’ve probably seen this one already because it was on Metafilter and has been going around for a couple of days. I found it via Mick Hartley. If you haven’t yet done so, hop to the Surrey Comet Website, where readers have been invited to comment on a story about how town centre managers have hired a marksman to deal with the local pigeon problem.
Thanks to some creative account creation it instantly turns into the most bonkers comments thread I’ve read on a news site since I last dared to look at The Guardian‘s Comment Is Free. All that’s missing is a nuanced contribution from dsquared informing us that the so-called “cull” is in fact part of an ongoing civil war between militant separatist guerrilla pigeons and a heavily outnumbered man with an air-rifle. Also at the Surrey Comet online you can read about how psychic detectives are investigating the Ricky Reel murder.
You don’t have the teensiest impression that most of those are written by the same person? You don’t get that much admirable silliness in one small place. Anyway, ta for posting this, I am definitely going to nick it as a the Bloggoth Silly Award of the week.
Personally, I think anyone killing pidgeons or even hurting their lovely little beaky feelings should be shot, boiled in oil, poisoned, gored by hippos and fed through a mincer, twice. Then I would go into Al Capone mode on their houses, families, friends, casual acquaintances, dogs etc.