I remember walking out of Painter one evening with a printout when they
fired the gun offf down the street. Put the printout over my head and ended
up having to get a new printout and wash my coat. Glad I didn't look up.

--
Rusty Myers
Austin, TX

"Terry Horton" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 11:00:23 -0600, "cat daddy"
wrote:

have a grackle problem, so I like them, too. Does UT still fire guns to
try
to scare them off? It was ever so much more pleasant to hear gunshots
while
strolling the campus at dusk rather than the grackle

They shot off one of those grackle guns outside Painter one day,
during the middle of an afternoon guest lecture. The startled face on
the poor visitor, looking around to see if it was time to duck. From
the back of the hall someone says, "Not to worry. It's just Texas."

The noise did get rid of the grackles, or should I say moved them
around temporarily. The guns were pretty controversial as I recall.