Word: pigeoning
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...Blood. The pigeons of St. Peter's in Rome, St. Mark's in Venice and St. Paul's in London are so entrenched that no public official would dream of killing them. The French have prohibited the feeding of pigeons in Paris, but they don't enforce the law. Moscow is attacking its pigeons surreptitiously to avoid exciting the pigeon lovers...
...while desecrated, defecated-on statues are immune, live human beings are not. For them, cryptococcosis may be a severe or even fatal illness, usually caught by inhaling dust from pigeon droppings...
...least two cities have declared open war on pigeons and are winning. Cincinnati, where eleven city workers became ill, and one died, after cleaning out pigeon droppings from an abandoned water tower, has started strict enforcement of an anti-feeding ordinance. Fines up to $50 for violators have made the pigeon rara avis there. Authorities in Buffalo are also making a fight to the finish. They employ five fulltime exterminators, who trap pigeons wherever they can and unobtrusively kill them by wringing their necks. The exterminators are also crack marksmen and shoot pigeons downtown in the early morning...
...York City sentimentalists raised such a howl last week that authorities did not know how to get rid of the birds without losing the pigeon-fancier vote. To trap and kill the birds, they would probably need an amendment to the state conservation law. A few do-it-yourselfers were reported baiting the pigeons with corn, then clubbing them to death with baseball bats. A more scientific and humane though admittedly long-range remedy was proposed by an ornithologist: let the city feed the pigeons all they will eat, but have the corn treated with chemicals that will make...