Found posted in various places downtown.
“Because your human numbers have swollen to more than 7 billion, and you’ve trashed our homes along the ocean, we settled on buildings like those of Pacific Grove, high above the night time dangers. Now you’re sending falcons and owls after us, so we’re stressed and in terror every moment of the day and night.”
All this over gulls while a major contributor goes unchecked.
Business property owners have until Feb. 20 to remove the birds’ nests on their buildings or face fines and penalties.
To help make sure owners are in compliance, the city plans to send drones to record video footage of business district rooftops in a search for nests.
The drone-and-raptor plan was the brainchild of economic development director Mark Brodeur, who also happens to be in charge of vector control.
“Sea gulls are essentially flying rats,” he says.
(City Councilman Rudy Fischer) said the city has already dealt with the “easy food” that tempts gulls by modifying downtown garbage cans.
“The gulls are getting aggressive at restaurants and pooping everywhere,” Fischer said.
Restaurants are attracting the gulls by not following health department rules. They need to be penalized with fines and made to pay for the cleanups.
One can take a walk and see the local businesses that have no respect for the town they operate in:
Mandos:
Mandos
P.G. Juice N Java:
Classic Catering: 
Fandango:
Pacific Grove To Unleash Birds Of Prey And Drones To Spy On Rooftops
I lived across the street from the Singing Christmas Tree in the seventies. Here is a low-fi recording taken from our front porch.
Putting up vague signs will bring in more business!
Blecch. Getting to look a little ghetto like there.
How about this one:
Signs! That’s The Answer!
Congress and Laurel.
When you don’t have enough room to bolt a fence to the sidewalk and your sandwichboard sign is not big enough just take some paint and use the sidewalk to advertise your shop. At least use a paint that matches gull droppings so you don’t get.in trouble like a shop on Grand once did for painting the sidewalk.
At Least It’s Not Gull Poop Covering The Sidewalk
Not
Be careful. This driver looked to be a local. License # 8P96264
Pacific Grove Is Such A Pedestrian Friendly Town
Gulls need lots of food to produce the bird poo they leave.
Atop the noodle house
Sidewalk N/E Corner Lighthouse and Forest
Thanks to fine businesses downtown the gulls get free access to yummy sustenance.
Juice & Java never fails to leave the garbage open
And Nader Agha’s Holman Building welcomes the birds too. Is that an antique clock in there?
Remember to wash your hands after visiting
Well, there often is an open house sign on the sidewalk.
Click to see the picture in the Pine Cone
After:
Bert Mendelsohn, 86, and his blind dog were unharmed after he smashed his 1997 Lincoln Town Car into the Coldwell Banker real estate office on Lighthouse Avenue around 2:15 p.m. June 4, but his wife, 93 year-old Lottie Mendelsohn, was taken to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
