Kicker - Gone to the gulls

MARY REICHARD, HOST: I like birds, but even I draw a line.

So do luxury hotel owners in Venice, the city of canals.

They’ve had it with seagulls swooping down on diners on hotel terraces and making off with food. One bird even flew off with a whole steak just as it was being presented to the guest!

What to do? Well, arm the hotel guests with water pistols to shoo the birds away, for one idea!

Another Venice hotel owner hands out bright orange water pistols to put off the seagulls. Turns out, the birds don’t like that color, and just setting them on the table frightens the birds away.

MYRNA BROWN: No harm, no fowl.

REICHARD: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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