Picnics at Montreal park risk hungry birds colliding with planes: airport

https://globalnews.ca/news/9764775/montreal-airport-picnics-bird-strikes/

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lp0101@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y (5 replies)

I was going to make some snarky comment about how ridiculous this is.

Then I clicked the article and saw that the park is literally right next to the runway. Maybe yeah in that case. Don't draw droves of birds straight to the airport.

isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 3y (4 replies)

I can't imagine having a picnic next to a departing plane must be pleasant anyway.

Unless you're really into planes, of course.

camaradeboina@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

You laugh you laugh but in Buenos Aires the viscinity around the airport is prime BBQ picnic land (its absurd af and I don't get why mais c'est comme ca)

t0fr@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y

Oh I definitely know two people who've gone to the park just for the sake of watching the planes take off

TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y

... or jet fuel exhaust...

lom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y

It’s actually pretty cool. I go there every now and then and you see all kinds of people there: Old, young, men, women, families going on picnics.

I’m pretty sure the air isn’t much worse than standing next to Rene-Levesque in rush hour…