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>>They went so berserk that I thought for sure they would swoop down and peck at me like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", but they didn't. You got lucky. Here i
by kamaal 10y ago
>>They went so berserk that I thought for sure they would swoop down and peck at me like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", but they didn't.
You got lucky. Here in India, crows get electrified all the time and if you try to clean up a good set of crows will peck on you.
And trust me I've been pecked once and it hurts real bad, some times it rough enough to make a person bleed.
- SEJeff 10y agoWould it be unreasonable to go at them with a cricket bat if they dive bomb you? Not out of aggression, but self defense.
- Gracana 10y agoThat doesn't sound anything like self defense.
- SEJeff 10y agoIf they are trying to peck you, how is it not self defense?!
- Gracana 10y agoIt's entirely unnecessary cruelty. Taking a weapon with you so you can retaliate after you provoke an attack isn't a defensive strategy.
- andrewflnr 10y agoCleaning up bird corpses near human habitation habitat isn't necessary? You have curious ideas of what's necessary.
- Gracana 10y agoThat's a ridiculous interpretation of what I said. Nobody I know has ever had to bludgeon an animal to clean their yard, not even the person whose story spawned this whole thread.
- yaowenjiaozi 10y agoOnce I was picked on by crows in my neighborhood. A few birds would swoop down and tried to / made a show of pecking me on the head. I picked up fallen twigs about the size of walking sticks which I swung above my head like a helicopter's rotors. Did that a few times and the birds stopped bothering me. The attacks started after I walked past a crow on the ground that was apparently injured or something. Once I _made eye contact_ (!) with that crow, the others up in the tree went beserk and started the attacks.
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