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Cull the Birds, Tuppence a Bag

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Neighbors on streets in the Griggstown section were left Sunday shoveling up hundreds of dead birds that had apparently been killed a few days earlier in an attempt by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reduce their numbers.

"It's horrible," said Colette Kiveris, who said she and her husband Sunday morning used tongs to pick up and bag 216 dead birds on their property on Park Lane. She said residents had been taken by complete surprise at discovering the birds on Friday and Saturday.

She and others said they were worried about pets and other wildlife eating the poisoned birds. "A couple of birds we picked up had been partially eaten," Kiveris said.

She said neighbors on Acken Lane had also discovered dead birds.

Mayor Brian Levine said Sunday evening he agreed with the residents that the USDA should "absolutely" have informed the township well ahead of time how and why the birds were being killed, and warned of any consequences.

Levine said his information as of late Sunday was that the birds had been killed with poison seeds, but he was unaware of any township officials having direct contact with the USDA over the weekend to provide further details.

Levine said the township had received some pre-notification from the federal agency late on Friday. "Word came in from the USDA that they were going go have a culling," Levine said. "We really had no idea what that meant."

Which, mind you, didn't prompt him or anyone else to actually contact the USDA and find out wtf they were talking about.

And the cops weren't much more help. They pretty much said "Oh, yeah. We got an email about it, but I can't go disclosing a memo by another department. You'll have to ask the USDA. But, hey, it was a legitimate operation." Whatever the hell that means. As if that's supposed to make someone feel better after waking up one morning to find hundreds of bird carcasses on their lawn, roof, and car. "Oh, it was legitimate. That's ok, then."

Anyone who called them was told to use gloves when picking up the birds and bagging it. Yep, that's right. They poison birds without telling any of the residents, and then they have the balls to tell you to pick them up yourself. Jackasses.

By min | January 26, 2009, 3:24 PM | Ummm... Other?