DIY of the day

By Regine
on March 23, 2007 7:41 PM
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Bring me home, please

Scanned from a 1933 issue of Popular Science and spotted last month on Popular Mechanix. I'm still laughing...

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If live cats will scare birds away, why not use imitation cats as scarecrows? Acting on this unconventional idea, a farmer of Warwickshire, England, is decorating his property with painted likenesses of cats like those illustrated above. Stoppers from mineral water bottles supplied the eyes. Now it remains to be seen whether the birds will be terrified.

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3 Comments:
nicolasbelhassen
March 23, 2007

ok you re lucky - i ll bring material
GO! Smell the flowers
March 24, 2007

Scary man holding the cats - why bother with the cats? I wonder why popular science doesn't exist now? Could we bring out unpopular science instead?
Kane
March 24, 2007

I'd be scared if I saw a cat smiling like that.

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