Council Notebook
Blanks only being fired at crows in Chatham
By Andrew Cornell
copyright Daily News, Tues Jan.25, 2000
If anyone's blasting bullets in residential areas of Chatham, they have nothing to do with municipal crow control.
That's the word from Public Works manager Leo Denys, who says live rounds are only being fired in rural or industrial areas. Those loud bangs in neighbourhoods are blanks fired in an effort to scare crows into roosting outside the city, he added.
He was responding Monday to some council members, who had received letters from citizens wondering about late night shots in their neighbourhoods
Most of the scare cartridges are fired before 10 p.m. and never after 11 p.m., he said. It's taking place two or three nights per week.
Firing live rounds within the Ward of Chatham - the same boundaries as the former city - is against local bylaws.
"Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly father feeds them."... Jesus
Click here to return to Article Index.