OT: Speaking of Gulls

Posted by Rod in Smiths Falls, ON, on November 13, 2005 at 05:32:29 from (209.71.222.30):

Gulls love dumps. In eastern Ontario we have a huge landfill site at Carp, near Hwy 417, a busy thoroughfare feeding Ottawa.

Back in the 70's the federal government grew a test plot of marijuana at the experimental farm. I remember working in the area and watching the kid they had hired to crawl around shooting rats with a pellet gun inside the chain-link fencing.

Anyway, they harvested the hemp and passed the surplus on to the RCMP for disposal. It sat for a couple of years in an evidence warehouse and eventually they sent it to the Carp dump for disposal, where the cautious workers burned it. A huge, funky cloud hovered over the landfill site that day. Its effects were not lost on the local gulls, who started dropping from the sky, often wandering drunkenly down the 417 amongst the traffic.

The Ottawa Sun's headline next day took the cake: "Mounties leave no tern unstoned."

Follow Ups:

• Re: OT: Speaking of Gulls Steve from Arkansas 18:27:33 11/13/05 (0)
• Re: OT: Speaking of Gulls IaGary 05:48:38 11/13/05 (0)

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