Pigeons and grackles are too small to take out a jet engine.

JFK does, and it seems to work a hell of a lot better than this.

United's terrible CEO, Jeff Smisek, can be reached at jeff.smisek@united.com

It should be pointed out that the January 2009 US Airways plane (Sully's Miracle on the Hudson) was struck by multiple Canadian geese, not your run-of-the-mill starlings and pidgeons. Since then, the NJ-NY Port Authority has tried to reduce their populations through hunting with shotguns. But they have learned that…

Pest poison needs to be humane. If it isn't, it's substandard. I'm not saying this as a PETA nutjob or anything; I'm saying this as a rural guy with a lot of experience dealing with pests. It's so easy to get the job done without making the animal suffer unnecessarily, that you have no excuse not to.

Of course the avitrol website is going to say their product is humane.

I hear Dick Cheney is pretty handy with birdshot.

That plane that landed in the Hudson River back in 2009 was forced down because it was struck by a bird.

I don't think anyone is questioning the necessity, just the methodology.

"But critics say that the use of Avitrol — which is banned entirely in several states..."

I've also seen them use air cannons to scare them off with a loud bang every once in a while. In fact, FLL has one at the end of the runway and controllers can fire it on demand if birds are near the runway.

It's totally unnecessary, though. Most airports don't kill their birds. They just use things like noisemakers and even falconers to scare them off.

They easily could've done what other airports have done and hired a company that uses raptors to fly around the facility and drive other birds off. That's what they do at JFK. Other airports also employ dogs to drive birds off the grounds.

Karma is a bitch

That's your take-away, is that he may not be a misogynist because he may have also beaten up male friends/family/strangers? Bullshit. This guy likes to pick on women.

This was so good and so fucking disturbing. Shame on me for being guilty of the same willful ignorance this article exposes. I hope to god Dan Rafael reads it.

I can't stand him, or his dad, or his uncle. One of my favorite moments in boxing that I have ever seen is when his uncle Roger fought Rocky Lockridge. This was back in an era when there were great fights on network tv mid-afternoon on the weekends, before PPV pretty much destroyed the sport IMHO. This was also an era…

He's a racist, misogynist, asshole, general degenerate? Fuck it! He's a great boxer so let's let him get away with it.

This article is bizarre in a few ways.

Wow, this is excellent.