Has anyone seen or heard similar stories in press, TV, radio, etc.? Internet links would be excellent.

Thanks

Rich

Some 'expert' on TV reckons they're after the insects (that might be) trapped in the blade.

It seems that the common crow can often mistake a car
wiper-blade for a piece of tasty carrion. Apparently, the eyes of most of the birds of the crow family visualise things differently to that of me or you.

For example, the jackdaw hoards shiny objects, such as jewelry etc, in the mistaken belief that it is transporting a tasty tit-bit back to its nest for later consumption in the comfort of the bird equivalent of its own living room. And who could blame it.

Some experts believe that the jackdaw thinks a nine-carat
gold- ring is slice of pizza. Amazing.

As for car wiper blades: I might buy some cheap ones, cut them up, and pile them under a tree in Wolley Woods.

If I weight them first, then pick the unconsumed amount up - say twenty four hours later, and then re-weigh them.

Then we will know HOW MUCH RUBBER can be consumed within a day by a colony of crows.

Obviously, I will need volunteers to assist in this exciting study.

We could even work out the crow population of Sheffield.

Now that would be good.

Will it matter whether they're cheap £1 a pair blades from Poundland, or should we get them from Halfords. (or a mixture)?

You could then compare the consumed amount of each type and then state catagorically that "Eight out of ten crows said they prefer X brand wipers."

Sit back and watch the sales of Y brand rocket. :loopy:

£1 a pair from poundland.

I reckon that's easier as we will be dealing in one unit and originating from one source from the supply chain, but how do we log quality assurance?

I mean, suppose the wiper blades are more tasty to resident crows in Cardiff than those of South Yorkshire?

Just suppose the crows in Devon prefer fish-based food!

I'm panicking now.

Help.

I'll have to get back to you on this one SM.

Last time I looked Poundland only had three sets in stock, and that's hardly enough for a fair sampling.

Anyhow, can't we just concentrate on local crows and avoid the ever present language, dialect and regional problems?

Let me have a night's kip to refresh my cranial circuitry.:thumbsup:

Fair do's, Mark: It is doing my head in at the moment.

Right SM, I’ve put a lot of thought into this (during the adverts) and I don’t think it will be as straightforward as we first thought.

The first thing we must determine is whether any South Korean makes of car are being attacked. If not, that will surely indicate that the wiper blades fitted to these cars are ‘crow proof’. Now this will only apply to those cars still with the factory fitted blades of course. If this is the case, then we must assume that those dastardly Koreans have either managed to get inside the minds of the Corvus genus, thereby training them prior to releasing them en masse into our parking areas, or their wiper blades just taste crap. This I assume with the intention of encouraging us, as a nation, to purchase wiper blades with the ‘Made in South Korea’ label from Poundland.

If all of the above is proven to be correct, then it will be your mission SM, should you choose to accept, to come up with a cunning plan to play and beat these ‘minds’ at their own game.

I have an idea for training bluetits to mob and harass the said offenders, but as it is nesting time I doubt that their minds would be fully on the job in hand.

I hope this goes some way towards helping you. Like I said, it has taken me a full commercial break to come up with this idea.
:thumbsup: :rolleyes:

Hmmm. I think my nephew can help me there. He works in Poundland P/T and may know the answer. He knows some pretty confidential stuff - for example the place will soon be changing its name to Euroland- so may be able to help here.

Euroland eh?

Does that mean their prices will be going down by 34%?

And about time too!

Now about these bloody crows........??

Originally posted by rich_b
Has anyone seen or heard similar stories in press, TV, radio, etc.? Internet links would be excellent.

Try this for size :

http://birds.cornell.edu/crows/crowfaq.htm#wiper

the page was last updated in 2002 so obviously not a new thing :P

Originally posted by rtapper
Try this for size :

http://birds.cornell.edu/crows/crowfaq.htm#wiper

the page was last updated in 2002 so obviously not a new thing. Page constructed by a guy in Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology :P

Originally posted by markham
Euroland eh?

Does that mean their prices will be going down by 34%?

And about time too!

Now about these bloody crows........??

No, of course not: it means the quality of the goods will be going down by 34%.

So their screwdrivers will now last 6.6 days instead of the 10 days they now last? AND their craft knife blades will be blunt BEFORE you get home instead of shortly after?

Its NETTO for me now for my essentials.

Mind you, maybe the crows will leave their wiper blades alone now!!

Originally posted by markham
So their screwdrivers will now last 6.6 days instead of the 10 days they now last? AND their craft knife blades will be blunt BEFORE you get home instead of shortly after?

Its NETTO for me now for my essentials.

Mind you, maybe the crows will leave their wiper blades alone now!!

Cripes!!

This could finish them off!! And EuroStretcher!! They will have to adjust their opening hours in accordance with NET (New European Time) and arrange their business hours in accordance with NEDT (New European Decimal Time).

They could be opening before they close and closing before they open!

God on a quad! It boggled the mind.

And then there's our police who will have to Euro the beat (which will be shorter).

God, this knock-on effect is frightening me. I can feel my heart Euroing with fear.

And sexy words like 'knickers' will become 'euroers': I mean that sounds so just not right.

"I'm just off to the shops to buy my wife some sexy 'euroers' for her birthday. "

Somehow, I don't think it will work.

And SQUIDS will become SEUROS:loopy: