Monday 29 December 2014

Here's one I did earlier


Somehow this one didn't get posted in August when I took it. It's underneath Chanterlands Avenue rail bridge. It was at about this time (and those of you with a weak stomach may wish to leave now) that the local rag ran a story of "inch long maggots" falling from this bridge onto the heads of unsuspecting pedestrians. It seems the rail company (or the Council, it was never clear who) had put up netting to keep pigeons from nesting but which instead trapped said birds (I saw at least two there may have been more) and led to a prolonged death by starvation and with the warm weather an inevitable host of maggots which left the rotting corpse when ready to pupate, falling like some biblical plague on the sinners below. The Council was informed and the Council sent an officer round to inspect and to write a report and then the Council undertook to study the report carefully and the Council said it would take swift and appropriate action should it be deemed necessary ...

3 comments:

  1. Ewww! That didn't work so well.

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  2. A couple of weeks before the rotting, the local Conservative Party's tawdry free newsletter carried a boast that it was they who pushed for the installation of the netting. They were pretty proud of their initiative at that time, but I didn't see a mention of it in their subsequent pamphlets.

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