Wimbledon under fire for shooting pigeons

As the Wimbledon tennis championships get underway, the real drama isn’t on the court but in the air. After the players’ lawn and an open-air restaurant were dive-bombed by pigeons, officials sent marksmen to take ’em out. The tournament employs two hawks for pigeon-scaring, “and by and large they do the job,” says a Wimbledon spokesperson. “But unfortunately there were one or two areas where the hawks didn’t deter the pigeons, so it was deemed necessary to take a harder approach.” Folks at PETA are hopping mad, calling the shooting “cruel and illegal behavior.” But apparently, desperate times call for desperate measures; said one marksman, “Wimbledon are worried that the birds will be crapping on everybody’s heads.”
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