“The architect that designed the thing, I’m...
“The architect that designed the thing, I’m willing to bet, had absolutely no thought about the bird problem.”
--Los Angeles Harbor Department official Don Williams, on the installation atop the department’s San Pedro headquarters of a “bird barrier,” made of thin metal coils, to drive away pigeons.
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