{"id":55,"date":"2004-09-04T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-12-31T17:24:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:24:25","slug":"dog-bites-man-editorial-page-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/09\/dog-bites-man-editorial-page-12.html","title":{"rendered":"Dog Bites Man: Editorial Page 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s neither controversial nor original to observe what a limp, wishy-washy rag<\/a> The Age<\/em> has become in recent years, but something needs to be said about the story that took up most of the front page<\/a> on Wednesday:<\/div>\n
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Swooping magpies have returned with the onset of the breeding season, and experts are warning walkers and cyclists to take care.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Either there\u2019s nobody left working at the paper who gives a shit or they just cdn\u2019t wait for the first really hot day to run that same bloody photo of people on St Kilda beach they print every year. After all, besides that and the one of snow on Mount Dandenong they\u2019re left with 363 other days each year where they have to think of something to put on the front page. News is hard! If only someone wd call an election or something.<\/div>\n
For a moment I thought this issue of the paper may have been printed up for schoolkids, but then I realised that if you\u2019re old enough to read you\u2019re old enough to know to stick a couple of fake eyes on the back of your bike helmet if you\u2019re getting serious grief from magpies. Hey, maybe this story\u2019s getting a run because the CSIRO has come up with a ingenious new clever-country way of repelling stroppy birds:<\/div>\n
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Putting a sticker of human eyes on the back of your bike helmet could keep the birds away, according to Ron Waters, flora and fauna compliance manager at the Department of Sustainability and Environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Wow! Thanks Ron. Sadly there\u2019s no picture of Ron Waters so we can\u2019t see if he\u2019s 9 years old or was wearing an ice cream container on his head while being interviewed. And remember kids, it has to be human eyes: birds aren\u2019t scared of gorillas.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s neither controversial nor original to observe what a limp, wishy-washy rag The Age has become in recent years, but something needs to be said about the story that took up most of the front page on Wednesday: Swooping magpies have returned with the onset of the breeding season, and experts are warning walkers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}