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Last week my partner mentioned her car's wiper rubbers were kaput. I made a mental note and a few days later noticed my car also had flapping wiper rubbers. A bit of a coincidence I thought ( four wiper blades shot at once) but as both cars the same age not completely out of the ordinary. Got new wiper blades for both cars (15 and 45 bucks) and fitted them on the weekend. Today I noticed a crow on the window of her car banging away at the wiper with it's beak. Going up to have a look I find new wiper rubber torn to shreds.
I then Googled crow+picking+at+windscreen+wiper[^] and found like most things that there is nothing new under the sun.
So now I have to figure a way to combat this fiend. No I'm not allowed to shoot it.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Little tiny (but very heavy) leg shackles so it has to walk everywhere?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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pwasser wrote: No I'm not allowed to shoot it.
Not even with BB guns? The kind with metal ammunition, of which there exist severa weighted and pointed versions and are completely free to buy?
EDIT: Also, try covering the wipers with nylon.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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den2k88 wrote: are completely free to buy
Not in Australia.
There would also be the RSPCA[^] to contend with.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: Not in Australia.
Right, I forgot.
pwasser wrote: There would also be the RSPCA[^] to contend with.
There should also be a denunciation for them to know and BB guns are silent and discreet - as long as noone sees you you're fine.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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"Motorists have been advised to coat their wipers with aluminium ammonium sulphate to keep the birds at bay." - RSPB
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Then hit their base with aluminium ammonium nitrate? 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Thanks. However as aluminium ammonium sulphate mixed with water is highly corrosive it is not something I'm keen to apply to our cars.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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You don't need gallons of it  , I can't see it harming the car any more than a crow scratching and pecking about on the paintwork.
I remember putting it on the kids nails when they were little to stop them biting them. Just a tiny drop is all that's required.
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Find out its true name[^], it'll have to do as you command and leave the wipers alone 
modified 31-May-16 9:28am.
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Link fail.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Whoops, fixed 
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Try a simple car cover.
It is thought it might be aggressive behaviour with the reflection of the window. So you could experiment with a simple sheet first.
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Yes - covering the wipers should work. Some people say lifting the wipers from the windscreen also works. I have seen streets with all the parked cars wipers lifted. I always thought this was the work of pranksters but it may have been deliberate.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: lifting the wipers from the windscreen
Also used to stop them sticking to the windscreen in bl**dy cold climates. Doesn't sound like Aussieland 
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Our problem is the sun and extremely hot weather which also adversely affects wiper blades and can make them stick to windscreen.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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You are an evil being. Put yourself in the position of that poor bird. You are out of rubbers when you really need one!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I'd happily give it some rubbers to leave us alone.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Remove the windscreen - then you won't need wipers. 
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yeah - we have the same sort of issue with bl00dy cockatoos .....
well, it could be worse, we could be across the ditch, the NZ Kea is a pretty destructive beast
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: NZ Kea is a pretty destructive beast
They're only destructive because they're very intelligent and very inquisitive. They'll open up your backpack just to play with whatever's inside
Amazing birds.
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yeah - I realise thats their nature, bit hard to explain to a hire car company why the rubber has been stripped off it though
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From one of those articles Quote: There are people who keep a frozen dead crow in their freezer...
presumably to stop it becoming a Zombie Crow[^]?
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Rub 'em liberally with neat washing-up liquid, to mask the flavour that the birdie likes, and give them one that it won't like.
I dare say that the manufacturers add dickie-bird attractants during manufacture, to pay for their expensive holidays.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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