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	<title>Comments on: Hot or Not? Bird Spike Strips</title>
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		<title>By: ethan</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-1088753</link>
		<dc:creator>ethan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it really doesn't matter to me how the spike birds strip look like. as long long as they are keeping the birds  away from my grapes farm they are hot for me...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it really doesn&#8217;t matter to me how the spike birds strip look like. as long long as they are keeping the birds  away from my grapes farm they are hot for me&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: haier</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-698959</link>
		<dc:creator>haier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>www.cztld828.com and www.cztld.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cztld828.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cztld828.com</a> and <a href="http://www.cztld.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cztld.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: haier</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-698958</link>
		<dc:creator>haier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>there have many mothed to rid the birds.
view this the leader bird spike manufacturer in China.
www.cztld828.com
Cangzhou Tianlida Hardware Products Co., Ltd

Our company is the specialized enterprise in manufacturing hardware and pest control products for many years, and now we are The Leader manufacturer of pest control products, our factory is located in the west city zone of Nanpi --- the famous hardware mould base in China. 
Products line: bird deterrents &#38; repellent series products, pigeon control, crow control, seagull control, mice &#38; rats control, trap cage series products, mole control, bait station, meadow vole control, skunk control, squirrel control, cat control, ferrets control, mink control, feral dog control, coyote &#38; wolf cub control, bear control, hamster control, dog control, raccoon control, fox control, muskrats control, hare control products, live animals trap cages, snake control, mosquito trap and some other pest control products.
Main products: bird spikes, bird netting, bird shock, bird wire, pigeon spike, snake control, easy mole trap, rat&#38; mice trap cages, mole clamps. solar mole expeller, Solar mouse expeller, and the solar bird expeller, tunnel mole trap, scissor moles, humane mouse trap, mole killer, folding trap, mice killer, snap mousetrap, bait station, plastic mousetrap &#38; rat trap, multi catch mouse trap, mouse catcher, rat catcher, mole catcher, crow trap cage, seagull spike, mice &#38; rats trap cage, skunk trap cage, squirrel trap cage, cat trap cage, ferrets trap cage, mink trap cage, feral dog trap cage, coyote &#38; wolf cub trap cage, bear trap cage, hamster trap cage, dog control products, hog trap, muskrat trap cage, raccoon trap cage, fox trap cage, hare control products and some ODM/OEM products.
Mostly all of the internal trading companies are exporting our products to the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, Serbia, Nepal, Sweden, etc for many years. They have earned much money from the importer and us, so we decide to cooperate with the importer directly, and we have success to cooperate with Some Distributor in United States and United Kingdom. We believe more and more distributor will chose us because the available price and the good quality.
we also good at R&#38;D civil hardware series products, stamping parts series products, sheet metal series products, auto parts series products, oil filter strainer for smoke exhauster, kitchenware series, barbecue net, clapboard for refrigerator, medical disinfecting net series, basket filter disk, filtration tank series, exhaust hood series, air filter series, technical net series, basket series, flange series, plate series, and some other hardware products, we also supply the OEM/ODM service. 
Our Management Philosophy is quality first, develop together. Welcome warmly those friends from both home and aboard to have cooperation with us to actualize our great plan. We are sure we will have a nice future.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>there have many mothed to rid the birds.<br />
view this the leader bird spike manufacturer in China.<br />
<a href="http://www.cztld828.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cztld828.com</a><br />
Cangzhou Tianlida Hardware Products Co., Ltd</p>
<p>Our company is the specialized enterprise in manufacturing hardware and pest control products for many years, and now we are The Leader manufacturer of pest control products, our factory is located in the west city zone of Nanpi &#8212; the famous hardware mould base in China.<br />
Products line: bird deterrents &amp; repellent series products, pigeon control, crow control, seagull control, mice &amp; rats control, trap cage series products, mole control, bait station, meadow vole control, skunk control, squirrel control, cat control, ferrets control, mink control, feral dog control, coyote &amp; wolf cub control, bear control, hamster control, dog control, raccoon control, fox control, muskrats control, hare control products, live animals trap cages, snake control, mosquito trap and some other pest control products.<br />
Main products: bird spikes, bird netting, bird shock, bird wire, pigeon spike, snake control, easy mole trap, rat&amp; mice trap cages, mole clamps. solar mole expeller, Solar mouse expeller, and the solar bird expeller, tunnel mole trap, scissor moles, humane mouse trap, mole killer, folding trap, mice killer, snap mousetrap, bait station, plastic mousetrap &amp; rat trap, multi catch mouse trap, mouse catcher, rat catcher, mole catcher, crow trap cage, seagull spike, mice &amp; rats trap cage, skunk trap cage, squirrel trap cage, cat trap cage, ferrets trap cage, mink trap cage, feral dog trap cage, coyote &amp; wolf cub trap cage, bear trap cage, hamster trap cage, dog control products, hog trap, muskrat trap cage, raccoon trap cage, fox trap cage, hare control products and some ODM/OEM products.<br />
Mostly all of the internal trading companies are exporting our products to the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, Serbia, Nepal, Sweden, etc for many years. They have earned much money from the importer and us, so we decide to cooperate with the importer directly, and we have success to cooperate with Some Distributor in United States and United Kingdom. We believe more and more distributor will chose us because the available price and the good quality.<br />
we also good at R&amp;D civil hardware series products, stamping parts series products, sheet metal series products, auto parts series products, oil filter strainer for smoke exhauster, kitchenware series, barbecue net, clapboard for refrigerator, medical disinfecting net series, basket filter disk, filtration tank series, exhaust hood series, air filter series, technical net series, basket series, flange series, plate series, and some other hardware products, we also supply the OEM/ODM service.<br />
Our Management Philosophy is quality first, develop together. Welcome warmly those friends from both home and aboard to have cooperation with us to actualize our great plan. We are sure we will have a nice future.</p>
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		<title>By: Sarah S.</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-685423</link>
		<dc:creator>Sarah S.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, bird spikes are humane, and are here to fulfill a need. IF properly installed. IF the area is cleaned of bird droppings and other debris before installing. That is all that is needed to make these great inventions a working magic bird control product. 

I contacted http://www.BirdBGone.com and they are the experts in the area of bird control. Low cost, high quality products are what they manufacture.

These work!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, bird spikes are humane, and are here to fulfill a need. IF properly installed. IF the area is cleaned of bird droppings and other debris before installing. That is all that is needed to make these great inventions a working magic bird control product. </p>
<p>I contacted <a href="http://www.BirdBGone.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.BirdBGone.com</a> and they are the experts in the area of bird control. Low cost, high quality products are what they manufacture.</p>
<p>These work!</p>
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		<title>By: l3utterfish</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-393032</link>
		<dc:creator>l3utterfish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>do u guys know of a place where show how to build homemade pigeon spikes?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>do u guys know of a place where show how to build homemade pigeon spikes?</p>
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		<title>By: CJ</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-262514</link>
		<dc:creator>CJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Almost Hot - My University uses these all over campus. If it's a question of do they work or not then yes the work. I have never seen a single pigeon in or around these spikes. So yes they work the problem is the university has some amazingly detailed woodwork/stonework on the out side of buildings, but now every ledge on that beautiful work is covered in GIGANTIC spikes. 

The work, but they ruin craftsman ship.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Almost Hot - My University uses these all over campus. If it&#8217;s a question of do they work or not then yes the work. I have never seen a single pigeon in or around these spikes. So yes they work the problem is the university has some amazingly detailed woodwork/stonework on the out side of buildings, but now every ledge on that beautiful work is covered in GIGANTIC spikes. </p>
<p>The work, but they ruin craftsman ship.</p>
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		<title>By: BIGGEORGE</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-262421</link>
		<dc:creator>BIGGEORGE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have seen something that looks like like a plastic slinky.
I works because pigeons have flat feet not claws and don't like moving surfaces.  Wrens might land on it, but anythind bigger 
wont like it because it gives under their weight.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have seen something that looks like like a plastic slinky.<br />
I works because pigeons have flat feet not claws and don&#8217;t like moving surfaces.  Wrens might land on it, but anythind bigger<br />
wont like it because it gives under their weight.</p>
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		<title>By: Aaron</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-261266</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We had a pigeon who regularly nested above our walk way--these did the trick.  Sure they just moved along to some other place but it wasn't over where we walked every day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We had a pigeon who regularly nested above our walk way&#8211;these did the trick.  Sure they just moved along to some other place but it wasn&#8217;t over where we walked every day.</p>
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		<title>By: JetMech2</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-261218</link>
		<dc:creator>JetMech2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a prior jet engine mechanic, I know all to well how much damage a bird can do to a jet engine and the pain airports go through to keep birds away from airports...especially runways.  These spikes are also installed in hangars to prevent larger birds from roosting.  Smaller birds like these because the bigger birds can't get to them - or their eggs.  But the bigger the bird, the bigger the damage to the engine and possibly the aircraft and its passengers.  Take off and landing is definately NOT a good time to have an engine stall due to bird ingestion.  Don't be fooled by the size of the engine...these are precision spinning machines and nothing link a compressor wobble to get everyone's adrenaline flowing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a prior jet engine mechanic, I know all to well how much damage a bird can do to a jet engine and the pain airports go through to keep birds away from airports&#8230;especially runways.  These spikes are also installed in hangars to prevent larger birds from roosting.  Smaller birds like these because the bigger birds can&#8217;t get to them - or their eggs.  But the bigger the bird, the bigger the damage to the engine and possibly the aircraft and its passengers.  Take off and landing is definately NOT a good time to have an engine stall due to bird ingestion.  Don&#8217;t be fooled by the size of the engine&#8230;these are precision spinning machines and nothing link a compressor wobble to get everyone&#8217;s adrenaline flowing.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-261062</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>By the way, that other Chris, the one who likes Teacher's dad, is not me. I don't really condone what he (Teacher's dad) did, assuming he knew they were pets, but I don't really condone what his neighbour did either, just as I wouldn't condone letting your dog crap on someone's lawn and not scooping it up.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By the way, that other Chris, the one who likes Teacher&#8217;s dad, is not me. I don&#8217;t really condone what he (Teacher&#8217;s dad) did, assuming he knew they were pets, but I don&#8217;t really condone what his neighbour did either, just as I wouldn&#8217;t condone letting your dog crap on someone&#8217;s lawn and not scooping it up.</p>
<p>cl</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-261061</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, pigeons are not only dirty and annoying, but they're stupid as heck. A while back, I had some friends who were leasing an old meat-packing plant downtown and they had a bit of a pigeon problem. We killed of most of them by walking up to the roosts and throwing golf ball-sized rocks at them from 10 or 15 feet away. If you missed, they'd just come back two minutes later (if they even left at all) and give you another clean shot. A BB gun is rather more humane, and a lot easier, but not exactly safe in an urban area.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, pigeons are not only dirty and annoying, but they&#8217;re stupid as heck. A while back, I had some friends who were leasing an old meat-packing plant downtown and they had a bit of a pigeon problem. We killed of most of them by walking up to the roosts and throwing golf ball-sized rocks at them from 10 or 15 feet away. If you missed, they&#8217;d just come back two minutes later (if they even left at all) and give you another clean shot. A BB gun is rather more humane, and a lot easier, but not exactly safe in an urban area.</p>
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		<title>By: FatalException</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-261059</link>
		<dc:creator>FatalException</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From what I remember of the tour, the Pentagon has a wooden owl that overlooks its inner courtyard.  Evidently it is very effective in keeping most birds away.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From what I remember of the tour, the Pentagon has a wooden owl that overlooks its inner courtyard.  Evidently it is very effective in keeping most birds away.</p>
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		<title>By: Zathrus</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-261053</link>
		<dc:creator>Zathrus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not -- as mentioned, they don't work all that well. I saw them all over London when I was there a few months ago and the pigeons didn't roost on them -- they just found &lt;i&gt;different&lt;/i&gt; places to roost instead that didn't really improve things any.

Oh, and Curtis, that woodpecker wasn't "sharpening his beak", he was marking his territory. They usually use metal gutters for the same reverberation effect, and yeah, it's annoying as hell.

Anyway, I agree that pigeons are just rats with wings... I like birds and have had bird feeders many times before (except that the rats with fuzzy tails, er, I mean squirrels, kept eating all the damn food and destroying bird feeders to get to it), but pigeons aren't my idea of interesting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not &#8212; as mentioned, they don&#8217;t work all that well. I saw them all over London when I was there a few months ago and the pigeons didn&#8217;t roost on them &#8212; they just found <i>different</i> places to roost instead that didn&#8217;t really improve things any.</p>
<p>Oh, and Curtis, that woodpecker wasn&#8217;t &#8220;sharpening his beak&#8221;, he was marking his territory. They usually use metal gutters for the same reverberation effect, and yeah, it&#8217;s annoying as hell.</p>
<p>Anyway, I agree that pigeons are just rats with wings&#8230; I like birds and have had bird feeders many times before (except that the rats with fuzzy tails, er, I mean squirrels, kept eating all the damn food and destroying bird feeders to get to it), but pigeons aren&#8217;t my idea of interesting.</p>
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		<title>By: aaron</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-261022</link>
		<dc:creator>aaron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yeah, those rock pigeons can be annoying/filthy. i once saw one get run over by a bus...made a loud pop. 

you see these things all over the place near subway and bus stations. It always seemed to me that they worked pretty well. There were lots of pigeons there, but only nesting on bare spaces.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yeah, those rock pigeons can be annoying/filthy. i once saw one get run over by a bus&#8230;made a loud pop. </p>
<p>you see these things all over the place near subway and bus stations. It always seemed to me that they worked pretty well. There were lots of pigeons there, but only nesting on bare spaces.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-260975</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like your dad :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like your dad <img src='http://toolmonger.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>By: Teacher</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-260967</link>
		<dc:creator>Teacher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>True they are not designed to kill, just keep them from roosting.  I hate pigeons.  Someone in my dad's neighborhood decided to raise them and keep them as pets.  He would turn them loose every other day to fly.  They would go to houses that had feeders, run off all the other birds, crap all over everything.  Real nice of the neighbor.  My dad started shooting them with a .410 shotgun out the kitchen window.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>True they are not designed to kill, just keep them from roosting.  I hate pigeons.  Someone in my dad&#8217;s neighborhood decided to raise them and keep them as pets.  He would turn them loose every other day to fly.  They would go to houses that had feeders, run off all the other birds, crap all over everything.  Real nice of the neighbor.  My dad started shooting them with a .410 shotgun out the kitchen window.</p>
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		<title>By: NotTheSharpestSpoon</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-260875</link>
		<dc:creator>NotTheSharpestSpoon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I do not think these are designed to destroy the birds (Kill! Kill! Kill!). I think they just keep them from landing and thus shatting all over your head. Plus, if it did stab the bird to death, you would have to go retrieve it from the spike and that would be more disgusting than bird doo doo in your hair. I would think...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do not think these are designed to destroy the birds (Kill! Kill! Kill!). I think they just keep them from landing and thus shatting all over your head. Plus, if it did stab the bird to death, you would have to go retrieve it from the spike and that would be more disgusting than bird doo doo in your hair. I would think&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There was an interesting episode of Dirty Jobs recently where Mike was working with a crew of guys cleaning up pigeon poop (which is classified by the EPA as a hazardous substance, by the way) who said these things were basically worthless, and their deterrent of choice was a low-current electrical system that shocked the pigeons' feet when they landed on the ledges. The guy who said that also said that they used to use the spike strips, but after a while the pigeons got good enough to build their nests in the spikes, which had the additional positive effect (for the pigeons) of thwarting most of their few remaining predators.

I like birds as much as the next guy -- I also have a bird feeder at home -- but pigeons are winged rats. They're not even native to North America. As far as I'm concerned, we'd be much better off without them here in the US.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There was an interesting episode of Dirty Jobs recently where Mike was working with a crew of guys cleaning up pigeon poop (which is classified by the EPA as a hazardous substance, by the way) who said these things were basically worthless, and their deterrent of choice was a low-current electrical system that shocked the pigeons&#8217; feet when they landed on the ledges. The guy who said that also said that they used to use the spike strips, but after a while the pigeons got good enough to build their nests in the spikes, which had the additional positive effect (for the pigeons) of thwarting most of their few remaining predators.</p>
<p>I like birds as much as the next guy &#8212; I also have a bird feeder at home &#8212; but pigeons are winged rats. They&#8217;re not even native to North America. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, we&#8217;d be much better off without them here in the US.</p>
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		<title>By: Curtis</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-260871</link>
		<dc:creator>Curtis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You may think this is messed up but I really needed some of these a few years back. I had a woodpecker that thought the metal chimney cap on the roof would be a good thing to sharpen his beak on, damn thing drove me insane.

Trust me, these exist to fill a need.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may think this is messed up but I really needed some of these a few years back. I had a woodpecker that thought the metal chimney cap on the roof would be a good thing to sharpen his beak on, damn thing drove me insane.</p>
<p>Trust me, these exist to fill a need.</p>
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		<title>By: eschoendorff</title>
		<link>http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/21/hot-or-not-bird-spike-strips/#comment-260862</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is seriously messed up.  Some mothballs would probably do the trick.  But freakin' spikes?  For birds?????  


Then again, I have about four bird feeders in my yard ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is seriously messed up.  Some mothballs would probably do the trick.  But freakin&#8217; spikes?  For birds?????  </p>
<p>Then again, I have about four bird feeders in my yard <img src='http://toolmonger.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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