I used to keep my boat in a covered marina on Lake Union in Seattle. One day last year I was walking down the docks and there was this marina worker with a 30 ft extension ladder nailing cages way up in the rafters and baiting them with corn. Ask him what he was doing and he told me trapping pidgins. Told me all about the trials of trapping pidgins and that if you didn't get every one they just brought friends back. We were all happy to see the pidgins go so they stopped crapping on our boats. But, this kid was having hell. So I asked him. Why don't you just get an air gun and shoot them. He looked at me really funny and said " Bad Idea, REALLY Bad Idea ". Said Last year he was doing just that, vary successfully, when all at once he was surrounded with black clad swat people with REAL GUNS pointed at him. They shut down the main street and surrounded, arrested and hauled him off to jail. He said " they scared the hell out of me and I almost lost my job! " Said that when he went to court the judge laughed at him and gave him a stern warning to not do that any more. Guess I can understand that happening in Seattle and I'm glad he was not hurt, but every time I shoot a pidgin I hear him saying REALLY BAD IDEA!
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Hahaha! They are really cool looking SWAT worthy guns, and the shooter must be a pro, they are silenced. I bet the crap was in his pants that day.
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I'm still betting that they could do just what he was doing, just a little coordination.
At night would be best and I'm betting they could get some airgunners to do it!
Of course that area is more like the two states to the south than the American West.
At night would be best and I'm betting they could get some airgunners to do it!
Of course that area is more like the two states to the south than the American West.
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I remember when I was young and a bunch of us kids would walk down to the dump and shoot rats. We would bring our cap guns to school and play cowboys and indians or cops and robbers. Mass shootings were never even thought of. Common sense prevailed and political correctness was left to authors like George Orwell. You may not be old enough to see it, but life has turned upside down. It really bothers me that simply shooting pigeons with a pellet gun could get you seriously injured or killed.
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