If this keeps up, Philadelphians might want to consider renaming their football team.
The city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections was set to demolish a long-vacant home that residents say has become home to a committee of turkey vultures. Yes, a group of the birds — sometimes also called buzzards — is known as a “committee.”
Christina Ali-Bey says she lives next door to the home and can hear the vultures scratching and walking around all night long, “like a horror movie.”
She’s even afraid the birds will scoop up her tiny dog, Rocco, a teacup Yorkie. Other residents see the birds regularly picking through their trash.
The birds are a protected species, so it’s illegal to harm or kill them.
Perhaps this will serve as a lesson to the city about boarding up – checking to maintain access closed – abandoned housing. Or better yet, put it to temporary use housing the homeless.
They could just play rap music, or better yet, one of Donald Trump’s rants ~ that should drive even a vulture away ~
Or it might attract more vultures.
…or even more pissed-off working-class white people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ttxGMQOrY
Few birds as graceful as a soaring vulture. One of my favorite signs spring is really here – when the vultures return from Mexico and downstate.
Though, Trump probably hates birds as much as he hates people.
“Man-eating crocodiles surface in Florida swamps” http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/21/african-nile-crocodiles-captured-florida
“Mysterious creature found in toilet” http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/09/25/Mississippi-couple-find-strange-animal-in-toilet-bowl/6321443193494/
In changing oceans, cephalopods are booming http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/cp-ico051716.php