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Thousands of dollars are lost in a big city every day, dropped onto pavement to be washed away or swept into street sweepers. There has been no economic way to collect most of them until now.
This business would train crows and pigeons to insert coins into a slot. The slot would function as a vending
machine, outputting a quantity of bird food for every coin. Soon birds would be searching the city for any unprotected coin and bringing it in for food. There is absolutely no risk of birds learning to steal money and any accusation of such would be libelous.
A more mundane and less profitable version would output bird food for trash collected and dropped into a dumpster.
Baked in 2008
https://www.npr.org...hp?storyId=87878028
[nomocrow, Feb 06 2019]
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Alfred Hitchcock would be so proud ... |
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"Did you get a good look at the muggers, madam ?" |
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"Well, yes ... but all those pigeons look the same to me ... " |
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//absolutely no risk of birds learning to steal money// I'll just go and set up my addictive feed vending machine. |
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Very clever. How about training them to pick up garbage? |
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If pigeons, maybe pick up garble. |
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Picking up garbage sounds great at first, but if the birds
learn that the trash machine can't differentiate between
garbage and any other small object such as someone's hat,
purse, phone, or any other object that isn't tied down, there
might be a problem. |
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This is freaking brilliant. Crows are very smart. They are one
of the smartest of the entire bird family. Yes. Do it. |
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Wouldn't hats, phones and wedding rings earn more food? no problem, item return. |
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Or is that why it is a murder of crows. |
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In a pie ? Isn't that just for blackbirds ? |
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A guy actually built one, and trained crows to use it. |
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Really? I had not heard of that. |
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(Later that night)...Wow, you are right, [nomocrow]. Do you
know this because you are really a crow??? hahahaha |
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+ love this...
Glad someone baked it |
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