Poisoned pigeons fell from the sky in Texarkana

Poisoned pigeons fell from the sky in Texarkana TX during the Quadrangle Festival. According to the Texarkana Gazette, Anti-Pest Company of Shreveport, La placed poisoned corn on the roof of the Texarkana CapitalOne Bank so that pigeons wouldn’t harass bank customers. Anti-Pest Co claimed they were only trying to make the pigeons sick. Who are they kidding?

Poisoning birds causes poisoning to all creatures in the environment. Birds eat poisoned seed, slow down, stay longer on the ground, and become prey for dogs and cats. Cats eat the birds and get sick. Dogs eat the birds. Dogs get sick. Rats eat the birds….. We cannot kid ourselves that poisons rid us of pests. Poisons put toxic chemicals into the environment and create a domino of death. When poisoning was tried in Beijing China to control insects, insects died, birds died, trees died. The city became a dustbowl from which it has yet to recover. Because the Chinese engaged in poisoning with such enthusiasm, they had widespread damage.

When CapitalOne Bank of Texarkana and Anti-Pest Co. Inc. of Shreveport, La engage in poisoning, they should realize the results are the same as those that occurred Beijing, just on a smaller scale because they were spreading poison on a rooftop, not throughout the city. If they had been poisoning all of Texarkana’s pigeons, imagine what Bank President Lacy McMillen could have used as a sound bite: “We kill to keep your cash comfortable!” Certainly a statement like that would be more believable than what she said as dead pigeons rained down on the Festival: "It was not the intention of the bank to harm any of these birds." The former governor of Texas, Ann Richards, would not have approved of McMillen’s style one bit.