UNRELIABLE FACT OF THE DAY
From the Brains Trust
18 June 2004
NELSON'S COLUMN
The well known London landmark harbours a secret pigeon-making factory. Overhead birds such as chaffinches, swallows and seagulls are sucked in through Napolean's hat, and rats from the tube lines are collected with a cheese-baited trap in the column's foundations.
Both birds and rats are kept stored in the length of the column, awaiting processing slightly beneath the fountain. The newly created pigeons fly out from Charing Cross tube station, and the spare parts left over by the process are given to naughty children in orphanages as sustenance.
as enscribed by the letter b @ June 18, 2004 06:08 AM