Wealthy Bristol residents install 'anti-bird spikes' to stop droppings hitting their cars

[editor]

Fuck the rich!

Wealthy residents have attached ‘anti-bird spikes’ to trees in a bid to protect their expensive cars from droppings, outraging environmentalists.

The spikes – which are generally used to stop birds resting and building nests on ledges and nooks on buildings – were nailed to two trees in an exclusive part of Bristol.

The trees, located in the front gardens of privately owned flats in the Clifton area of the city, have been described by a local Green Party councillor as “literally uninhabitable to birds.”

Wealthy Bristol residents cause outrage by installing 'anti-bird spikes' to stop droppings hitting expensive cars

 

[DotCommunist]

somewhere handy to pin their corpses for public display after the great day

 

[Gromit]

I'm guessing by the level of outrage that these the only two trees in the whole of Bristol that birds can sit on.

Perhaps people could build a third and maybe even a fourth tree in the Bristol area.
Shouldn't be too expensive as they are made out of wood. Unless it's oak. That shit is expensive.

 

[ruffneck23]

Ah but the birds were there first....

 

[fizzerbird]

Are they allowed to do that??

 

[ruffneck23]

It seems if you have enough.money you can do anything

 

[Pickman's model]

somewhere handy to pin their corpses for public display after the great day

Or to remove and use as stingers outside gated communities and the like

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

If these cunts can put spikes like that wherever they like, then so can we.

Start with their bath mats and mattresses.

 

[Pickman's model]

If these cunts can put spikes like that wherever they like, then so can we.

Start with their bath mats and mattresses.

And toilet seats

 

[weltweit]

I don't know what trees they are but outside my son's place there are trees with berries on at the moment and the amount of berries and shit that comes down from the feasting birds is something to behold. Typically all the locals park elsewhere leaving those spots to people who don't yet know!!

 

[Poot]

It would be a terrible shame if the tree were to grow a little but deform itself because of the cable ties, and the entire branch were to fall onto a Jag that was parked underneath. Terrible, terrible shame.

 

[editor]

It would be a terrible shame if the tree were to grow a little but deform itself because of the cable ties, and the entire branch were to fall onto a Jag that was parked underneath. Terrible, terrible shame.

Or if a cheeky magpie managed to pick up a saw in the middle of the night and somehow manage to lop off a chunky branch.

 

[Ground Elder]

Or, if someone were to scatter bird seed over the BMW roofs

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Most gormless comment quoted by the Guardian:

The spikes are solely to protect the cars [parked under the trees]. There is a big problem with bird droppings around here. They can really make a mess of cars, and for some reason the birds do seem to congregate around this area.

Perhaps that's because there are trees in the area and birds tend to like sitting in them.

 

[dessiato]

Whilst I'd be very upset if birds shat on my roof, a cloth roof is difficult to clean, I'd solve the problem by not parking under a tree. Given how much would cost, and how much trouble it would be to install spikes, parking elsewhere must be a much better option.

These people are just cocks.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

These people are just cooks.

I take it you meant 'cunts'.

 

[Geri]

Are they allowed to do that??

I wondered that, but I guess if you have trees in your garden you can do whatever you like with them.

It does seem though that only an evil person could have come up with the idea.

 

[IC3D]

I'm sure they're arseholes but bird shit really is bad for paintwork. If they chopped the trees down it wouldn't have even come to anyone's attention so on balance I can't get enraged about this. However (((Birds)))

 

[peterkro]

How stupid are these people birds don't weigh 75 kilos so they'll just use the little branches to roost on.
Keas apparently are now endangered in NZ (when I was a kid there were hundreds of thousands of them) importing some to that area of Bristol might be a good idea (they are mountain parrots so the cold won't bother them) they'll destroy the cars then start on the houses.

 

[Libertad]

Those cable ties won't last a year. (((Gravity)))

 

[Pickman's model]

Those cable ties won't last a month. (((Vandals)))

 

[Voley]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

How stupid are these people birds don't weigh 75 kilos so they'll just use the little branches to roost on.
Keas apparently are now endangered in NZ (when I was a kid there were hundreds of thousands of them) importing some to that area of Bristol might be a good idea (they are mountain parrots so the cold won't bother them) they'll destroy the cars then start on the houses.

That's an excellent idea. Clever parrots on the rampage.

 

[1927]

I wondered that, but I guess if you have trees in your garden you can do whatever you like with them.

If they chopped the trees down it wouldn't have even come to anyone's attention so on balance I can't get enraged about this. However (((Birds)))

Has no one on this thread heard of environmental protection laws? Just cos trees are in your garden doesn't mean you can do whatever you like, do anything to a tree with a TPO on it and you'll find yourself in court and facing a hefty fine.

 

[wiskey]

How stupid are these people birds don't weigh 75 kilos so they'll just use the little branches to roost on.
Keas apparently are now endangered in NZ (when I was a kid there were hundreds of thousands of them) importing some to that area of Bristol might be a good idea (they are mountain parrots so the cold won't bother them) they'll destroy the cars then start on the houses.

There are kea's a stones throw away in Bristol zoo.

52k people want the council to act although they say it's not their property.

 

[Geri]

Has no one on this thread heard of environmental protection laws? Just cos trees are in your garden doesn't mean you can do whatever you like, do anything to a tree with a TPO on it and you'll find yourself in court and facing a hefty fine.

Actually that isn't true. A TPO doesn't stop you from doing "anything" to a tree, it just protects it from certain things.

 

[1927]

Actually that isn't true. A TPO doesn't stop you from doing "anything" to a tree, it just protects it from certain things.

It pretty much does, unless for safety, or other legal reasons! The posts quoted were suggesting that you COULD do anything if they were on your own land and that cutting the tress down altogether would have been easier for the residents! I was merely pointing out that this isn't the case!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Most gormless comment quoted by the Guardian:



Perhaps that's because there are trees in the area and birds tend to like sitting in them.

Wouldn't be surprised if the shitting birds were immigrants too

 

[farmerbarleymow]

 

[eskdave]

YOYOY-do ''rich people'' live under trees in Bristol?