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Birds ,can i kill them??

KdjaCL · 2002-07-20 09:58:16

I ahve a family of crows living on my dish and it keeps blanking out sky when they sit on the dish. Ayneon else have this and can you kill them??? kdja

20-07-2002 10:58am

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KdjaCL

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I ahve a family of crows living on my dish and it keeps blanking out sky when they sit on the dish.
Ayneon else have this and can you kill them???

kdja

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#2 20-07-2002 11:17am

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Thats cool> Train them to sit on the dish during the endless sky adbreaks.They would be doing you a favour. Regarding killing them,throw stones at them but dont shoot,apparently its illegal in built up ares to use a firearm>>

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#3 20-07-2002 1:00pm

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Hmm, what about covering the LNB arm in grease or vaseline? It will be too slippy to perch on then! Plus as a bonus, it won't rust as quick

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#4 20-07-2002 3:22pm

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1. Find a three pin plug and a suitable length of 2 or 3 core electrical cord.

2. Strip both ends of the electrical cord.

3. Attach the approiate colour wires to the correct pins in the plug.

4. Attach the live wire on the other end of the electrical cord to the satellite dish.

5. Plug into an ESB power point and switch on.

6. Next time the crows come watch them fry!

N.B. This procedure is unlikely to work well and is extremely hazardous and unsafe and could end up damaging electrical equiptment in your house. Killing these crows may also see you prosecuted for endagering wildlife and the DSPCA are unlikely to be happy either. Most of all none of this is neither big nor clever and should not be attempted by anyone!

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#5 22-07-2002 9:43am

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This has been discussed before....

I think best option is to have a decoy dish right next to it which is electically shielded from everything else (i.e chimney, etc)

As soon as the first crow lands on it, !ZAP!... I think his buddies will not risk landing on the other dish seeing as it looks the same...

Only problem is....cleaning your gutters....crows corpses tend to block them oh yeah and dont park your car in the drive...their beaks tend to break sunroofs

If you do go ahead and implement this, I will co-fund a Crow-execution webcam with you

cheers,
J.

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#6 22-07-2002 9:45am

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48208&highlight=crow

The last discussion

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#7 22-07-2002 9:50am

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corws hate magpies..SOOOO
go get a decoy magpie and put it up in sight of your dish..that should frak out the crows enough to go.
(you'll get one in a shooting/fishing shop)

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#8 22-07-2002 4:11pm

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Buy a shot-gun and shoot the b4stards, works every time.
Or build a scarecrow!

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