This is an idea to try in a large flat public area that has an Alfred-Hitchcock-number of pigeons, such as Trafalgar Square, and many other places.

The Pigeon Positioner is a motorized dispenser that hurls birdseed in patterns. Spirals, concentric circles, even shapes are possible with a spinning mechanism. A fancier computer-controlled version could spell words and draw pictures. The birds line up with the fallen seed, and form the patterns.
-- Amos Kito, Jan 02 2004

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Could your seed scatterer fling seeds under car wheels, Fed-Ex trucks or under pile drivers? [+] As much as I loathe pigeons, this idea rocks [+]

Added: //The birds line up with the fallen seed, and form the patterns// with their constant droppings?
-- Klaatu, Jan 02 2004


//with their constant droppings?//

Say... what about making an elevated rail, shaped like [image in question], and removed when enough droppings are accrued?
-- motive power, Jan 03 2004


lovely pun, Amos!
-- po, Jan 03 2004


Pull! *Blammo!*
-- thumbwax, Jan 03 2004


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-- po, Jan 03 2004


You could poke someones eye out hurling bird seed about.
-- python, Jan 03 2004


THE BOIDS ARE CALLING ME! ... no, really, look ...
-- Letsbuildafort, Jan 03 2004


Oooh, you could marshal them into a neat fan pattern .... right in front of a Claymore mine .....
-- 8th of 7, Jan 04 2004


could you put maybe arsenic or bleach or perhaps amonia in the seed? i dont care for pigeons much either.
-- Space-Pope, Jan 04 2004


one time while i was in italy, i cuaght a pigeon. and some lady came up and started beating me with her purse.
-- Space-Pope, Jan 04 2004


I remember, there was a half-brick in there..
-- po, Jan 04 2004


[po] you don't have family in Italy, do you?! hehe ... flogging the halfbakers and all.
-- Letsbuildafort, Jan 04 2004


Stev3: you like st3f's cousin or something?
Space-Pope: I once had a surreal experience in Trafalgar Square, when I caught two pigeons that had become entangled in a piece of string. The surreal part was finding someone with a knife to cut the string: eventually I found a kilted Scotsman who had one strapped to his leg.
-- DrCurry, Jan 04 2004


Maybe you could do that at a chicken farm. Then the design would be white & fluffy!
-- spacecadet, Jan 04 2004


And the annoying thing is once you call them doves it's all lovey dovey. And they're still rats with wings.
-- theircompetitor, Jan 04 2004


Trafalgar Square //A conceptual artist who once asked a friend to shoot him in the arm in the name of art, and one who exhibited a refrigerated cast of his head made using nine pints of his own blood, are among sculptors shortlisted to create a work of art for Trafalgar Square's vacant fourth plinth// what rubbish!

Its gonna be a pigeon or a feral kat!
-- The Kat, Jan 05 2004



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