Birds or Car?
March 28th 2008 08:49
One of the problems we have with parking our car in the driveway is that there’s a tree growing in the garden at the side – and overhanging the driveway. Birds perching in the tree do seem to delight in leaving their droppings on the car. No sooner do we clean it off than the birds have been and done their job again.
It’s not an uncommon problem, and I’d never much thought about what I might do about it until tonight when I came across someone asking the same question on Yahoo Answers. (Yahoo Answers is the place to find normal and odd questions – and equally odd answers.)
The questioner was a bit miffed to be told that he should build a carport, or get a car cover, or not park under the tree – things he plainly already knew. He wanted a more ‘green’
response, one that would give both the birds and the car their space without affecting each other.
Unfortunately, the responders didn’t take him too seriously. One suggested getting a shotgun (!); one recommended putting a fake owl in the tree (birds are that stupid?); one suggested placing a loaf of bread down the street. This doesn’t work: we place bread in our back garden, and birds still perch in the tree beside the car as well as the trees around the back. Another recommended moving house (bit of a drastic solution); another cutting down the tree (not a particularly green idea) or disguising the car as a hawk – a little bit more imaginative, at least, but probably impractical.
At the end of the day the score seemed to be birds 1, human and car, nil. I’m sure Orble readers could come with something more useful than any of these responses, so I’ll wait in anticipation.
It’s not an uncommon problem, and I’d never much thought about what I might do about it until tonight when I came across someone asking the same question on Yahoo Answers. (Yahoo Answers is the place to find normal and odd questions – and equally odd answers.)
The questioner was a bit miffed to be told that he should build a carport, or get a car cover, or not park under the tree – things he plainly already knew. He wanted a more ‘green’
Unfortunately, the responders didn’t take him too seriously. One suggested getting a shotgun (!); one recommended putting a fake owl in the tree (birds are that stupid?); one suggested placing a loaf of bread down the street. This doesn’t work: we place bread in our back garden, and birds still perch in the tree beside the car as well as the trees around the back. Another recommended moving house (bit of a drastic solution); another cutting down the tree (not a particularly green idea) or disguising the car as a hawk – a little bit more imaginative, at least, but probably impractical.
At the end of the day the score seemed to be birds 1, human and car, nil. I’m sure Orble readers could come with something more useful than any of these responses, so I’ll wait in anticipation.
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