Re: Aerial Masts

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

OR...

Buy a 12 bore and have some fun

OR....

Get Tim round with his rifles for a spot of practice.

Let the the backlash from the animal lovers commence :-)

M.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Grimshaw" <stuart@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Aerial Masts


> On Monday 11 June 2001 19:39 pm, you wrote:
> > I guess this isn't strictly Home Automation but maybe you can
help
> >
> > I have a problem or should I say the birds and pigeons have a
problem.
> > Every day they sit on the aerials attached to my house, above the
car
> > and drop serious amounts of ....  I mean lots of it.
>
> This was one of the first questions I asked when I joined the list,
and
while
> I havn't tried any of the yet, here are a few ideas I was offered.
>
>    * Electrify the aerial
>       Might affect receiption, oh yeah, and is probably illegal :-)
>
>    * attatch of those childrens windmill things to scare them away.
>       Probably won't be very long lasting.
>
>    * Attatch luminous plastic strips to the vertical vanes on the main
poll.
>       The idea being they would flap in the wind and scare the little
turd
>       machines away. This is my favorite. You can get strips of very
tough
>       plastic, perhaps one of those luminous cycle safty belts cut up
would
>       do the job?
>
> Hope that helps, let me know if any of it works, I'm getting a new car
on
> Saturday, and I'll need to poop prevention if I want to avoid melting
the
> laquer of my new wheels.
>
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