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“Citizens look to sky and duck as vultures splatter N.J. town Dozens of turkey vultures have descended into Florence Township, N.J., on the banks of the Delaware River, making life difficult for residents. "You have to walk with caution," said Baptist minister Timothy Weeks. "Not from what's on the ground but from what might come from above. It splatters all over when it hits." The population of the birds has grown to about 75, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture census. Some local residents attribute the summer flock to a landfill across the Delaware River in Tullytown, Pa., but officials there said that's not the case because vultures go for carrion, not garbage.” 9:10:03 AM 8/21/06 “I hate it when that happens!” 9:11:56 AM 8/21/06 “Here in Ohio we have a town called Hinckley where they celebrate the return of the buzzards every spring. Kind of like the redneck version of the swallows of Capistrano. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2430244” 9:16:15 AM 8/21/06 “Oh hey, I learned something cool about vultures at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science...when a gas company suspects a gas leak, they pump a chemical that smells like rotting meat into the line, and wherever the vultures gather, they know that's where the leak is. Neat, huh? Maybe their entire town has a huge gas leak...haha.” 9:20:29 AM 8/21/06 “When the winter actually gets cold here all the turkey and black vultures head over to the UNF campus; they sit all over the tops of the parking garages and the arena to sun themselves in the morning, then spend the rest of the day circling above these huge blowers for some of the larger buildings. It's pretty cool to see hundreds of vultures in tight formation like that.” 11:39:51 AM 8/21/06 Truly here is a man with problems 1:02:59 PM 9/20/06
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