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Post by Beaus_Dad on Aug 8, 2007 13:22:54 GMT -5
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crockett
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Post by crockett on Aug 8, 2007 13:50:17 GMT -5
I saw the same thing done at a SO-CALLED eco-tourist resort in Australia. The resort owners were always pissing and moaning that we were fishing in the area of the fancy resort (where I once spotted Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, back in the days before he lost his woman and his mind! lol!). They said that us fishing within sight of the resort was bad for their business, since their guests came for an "ecologically friendly tourism experience". Well, when you've got customers like Mr. Cruise I guess you get what you want, because a few days later word came down the line from the boss - no more fishing within sight of the resort beach. A few weeks later I was having a few beers with some employees from the resort (the massage therapist, to be precise  ) when I learned that a few times per season the lodge staff would cut back the seagull population by putting a bunch of food inside the back of a garage, then closing the doors on a bunch of gulls and gassing them with carbon monoxide. Then they'd take them out and dump them! Apparently this was for the "safety" of the guests, since all the gull shit posed a health risk around the buffet areas! Ridiculous... I'd love to have followed them when they want out to dump the carcasses in the ocean though - talk about chumming. You can bet your boots it woulnd't take the sharks long to find THAT dumping spot! I also saw on CBC a year or so ago that the St. John's port authority had issued special permits to have pellet-gun shooters cull a couple of hundred pigeons around their buildings. Why don't I ever get called to help out with these "problem" birds! -Croc |
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newguy
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Post by newguy on Aug 8, 2007 17:27:52 GMT -5
LOL Crockett maybe they heard about how you and the other Beretta shooters did in Lunenburg
LOL had to throw the dig out
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crockett
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Post by crockett on Aug 8, 2007 17:35:00 GMT -5
Owwwwwwch! Zing!  -Croc |
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) when I learned that a few times per season the lodge staff would cut back the seagull population by putting a bunch of food inside the back of a garage, then closing the doors on a bunch of gulls and gassing them with carbon monoxide. Then they'd take them out and dump them! Apparently this was for the "safety" of the guests, since all the gull shit posed a health risk around the buffet areas! Ridiculous... I'd love to have followed them when they want out to dump the carcasses in the ocean though - talk about chumming. You can bet your boots it woulnd't take the sharks long to find THAT dumping spot! I also saw on CBC a year or so ago that the St. John's port authority had issued special permits to have pellet-gun shooters cull a couple of hundred pigeons around their buildings. Why don't I ever get called to help out with these "problem" birds!
