Ask Mr. Answer Person" "Did it work to use a frozen dead turkey vulture to scare away other vultures from the Bruening Addition cell phone tower?"

If you look closely at the top of the tower, you can see the frozen dead turkey vulture

Eric e-mails Mr. Answer Person: "I remember how they put up a frozen dead turkey vulture on top of the cell phone tower near Phelps Park to scare away the turkey vultures that were roosting on the cell pone tower and c***ing on the houses right below the tower.  I have a simple question--did the frozen turkey vulture carcass work?"

Mr. Answer Person says: "Ahhh--I have the best job in the world!  Yes, you recall correctly that a dead turkey vulture carcass was put on top of the tower in June after neighbors complained the turkey vultures had become a nuisance.

At that time, the prediction by some was that the dead turkey vulture wouldn't work--that vultures are creatures of habit and once they roost in one location, they're hard to move.

Well, apparently the sight of a dead turkey vulture is enough to convince the others to move elsewhere.  Mr. Answer Person has spoken with neighbors of the cell phone tower--and they say the turkey vultures have moved off some distance away to a dead tree to the west--and are now leaving the cell tower alone.

So roadkill turkey vultures apparently can be very useful in scaring off the living turkey vultures.

Eric asks one additional question: "Where did they get a frozen dead turkey vulture anyway?"

Mr. Answer Person says: "Why, at "Frozen Dead Turkey Vultures R Us," of course!