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Wimbledon Pigeon (from insidesocial.com) Yesterday, the officials at Wimbledon used marksmen to shoot down pigeons to prevent them from dive-bombing on courts during the games. They state that this is their plan B method after using hawks to drive the pigeons away; according to Wimbledon spokesman Johnny Perkins, “The hawks are our first line of deterrent, and by and large they do the job”.

PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, expressed their grievances to the police and people in charge of the tournament and stated that Wimbledon’s behavior was “cruel and illegal” and that the killing of the pigeons by marksman was more of a first choice than a last resort. I can see where PETA’s coming from on this as they’re literally shooting birds out of the air that don’t deserve to die, but Wimbledon’s not going to take a lot of flak for this. This is just a short passing complaint.