| "Shock" System Rids Subway of Pest | | | | they have been walking with their |
| Pigeons | | | | children, the children have also been |
| New York Transit Authority uses Shock | | | | hit. They've been afraid to touch the |
| Track System by Bird-B-Gone, Inc. to rid | | | | feces because they were afraid that it |
| subway platforms of unwanted, and | | | | may be hazardous to their health." |
| unsanitary pest pigeons in Queens. | | | | Peralta helped secure some state funding |
| Assemblyman Jose Peralta celebrated the | | | | to purchase and install electrified |
| completion of the project in Queens that | | | | strips, made by Bird-B-Gone, Inc. When |
| will deter pigeons from occupying a | | | | the pigeons touch the strips, they get a |
| local subway station. | | | | mild "Shock" that changes their nesting |
| Peralta says, " We need to protect our | | | | and roosting behaviors, keeping them off |
| children, the children who walk up and | | | | of the subway platform. The strips have |
| down these streets, that take the | | | | been installed throughout the 103rd |
| trains, that use the system, are very | | | | Street Station. |
| vulnerable at times." | | | | "We're proud to be serving the |
| The children, in this case, are | | | | Metropolitan Transportation Authority |
| vulnerable to the pigeons that for years | | | | and in essence the people of New York |
| have made the 103rd street station their | | | | City," said Bruce Donoho owner of |
| home. Pigeons not only create unsightly | | | | Bird-B-Gone, Inc. located in Mission |
| messes, but their feces carries diseases | | | | Viejo, CA. (800-392-6915 |
| that threaten the health of the | | | | Bird-B-Gone, Inc. manufactures hundreds |
| children. | | | | of different products used to humanely |
| "People have been hit by the feces as | | | | move pest birds away from Human |
| they are walking," said Peralta. "Where | | | | Sensitive areas. |