Andy wrote:

> Why yes, because if you throw rice at them, the crows and pidgeons swarm
> and eat it off the sidewalk and then it expands in their stomachs and
> they explode and shit doesn't quite so much hit the fan.


Here's more information:


http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp


--Lia

One time on Usenet, Julia Altshuler > said:
> Andy wrote:

> > Why yes, because if you throw rice at them, the crows and pidgeons swarm
> > and eat it off the sidewalk and then it expands in their stomachs and
> > they explode and shit doesn't quite so much hit the fan.

> Here's more information:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

How funny -- when I got married (1989) we made packs of bird seed
for people to throw, because we were worried about the birds. Silly
us, too bad we didn't have Snopes back then... :-)

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