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