I'm reading "A Ford Truck, Home to Newborn Robins, Is Stuck at a Kansas Car Dealer/Employees of a dealership in Olathe, Kan., found the nest, which is protected under federal law, on top of one of the truck’s tires" (NYT).
Just ordinary robins. And the $90,000 truck has a buyer. But the resolution is that the buyer will wait 4-6 weeks for the robins to leave the nest.
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This is why many developers are quick to destroy natural or historical wonders when they come across them during a project—because if the government gets wind of it, that developer is done for.
There may have been other options, but the governments said “No, you lose, that’s it. That’s the option.” Next time they’ll pretend not to notice the robins as they move the truck to another part of the lot.
I despise squatters.
The law is an ass.
I would be happy to wait myself.
What would happen if you woke up and the nest had moved to a nearby tree, and nobody knows how it happened?
Indeed Tim. The development where I live has an eagle's nest and therefore will likely never get completed. 90% of it is done and plenty big neighborhood, but this one area. We had some people move in from out of state upset there is this one section without sidewalk, well...
This is why we have feral cats. (I'm evil 😈😉)
So, I'm a criminal for deterring the robins from building a nest on our deck light fixture?
Park a windmill next to the vehicle and void any undue environmental protections under color of a Green deal. The blades will make short order of the robin's nest and babies. Perhaps add a solar oven to serve them with a round of buffalo sauce on the hood, at the gate.
Robins make a nice nest, and usually in the safety of a Pine tree. This is a bad location. Moving it might well save the family, but bureaucrats don't think things through.
Protected robins?
I doubt that.
Virtue signaling by the dealer.
No perfect acceptance re: time of delivery. Breach of contract.
So, this Thursday I looked to buy a 2025 used BMW X5 with 43k miles from the exclusive BMW dealer.
It was overpriced by about $10k. He’d give me only $6.5k for my BMW: way low.
Then there was a “vehicle protection package” for $1,995.
DDB, “What’s this?”
Yada, yada.
Then $895 for a document fee.
Then we get into a discussion about appraisals.
DDB, “I’m a lawyer. I know how the appraisal game is played. You carefully select your comps. I recently cross-examined a real estate appraisal expert at a trial and his hourly rate was $750 per hour and his minions created a $20k report.”
But some rich person in Omaha might well pay that price or close to it.
500 hp? Child's play. Older 2022
RAM 1500 TRX had over 700 hp.
Compare and contrast to Obama years, itty bitty four cylinders the rage, normal car owners doxxed, canceled, assaulted in parking lots, Cash for Clunkers required any car sold on program have engine destroyed. lol.
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My neighbor wanted to replace an awning over his deck, and when the installers showed up, they said they couldn't do the job because there was a robin's nest in the old awning. Let me tell you, there is absolutely no shortage of robins in my neighborhood! The job was postponed for six weeks. Hard to believe!
90,000 for a pickup truck. Absurd. Anyway good for them. Lets protect the Robins!
The Federal Bureau of Robin Protection must somehow have escaped Elon's mighty axe.
We have tons of birds here in Tucson - quail, cardinals, doves, wrens, hawks, vultures and roadrunners (my favorite). You see plenty of dead baby birds who got lost following the pack, especially quail. The hawks eat the smaller birds. Birds regularly crash into patio doors and die.
Bottom line is that lots of birds die every day. That’s nature.
Either way they’re robin him.
Woke federal insanity strikes the heartland.
This could be great publicity for the car dealership. Put the robins in commercials -- then when people come to see them, convince them they what they really need is a $90,000 pickup truck. Profit!
A law passed a 100 years ago in response to unregulated commercial bird hunting and the feather trade, gets unknowingly broken all the time or locks up trade and construction.
There are a 1000 bird species on the list. It's easier to look up what birds are not protected.
It's not good to have laws that can't be obeyed. You think tree trimmers climb each tree to make sure there isn't a sparrow's nest?
Meh, once in a great while there’s an example of absurd governmental overreach that I’m OK with. And, fascist statist jackbooting or not, I would hope that the dealer and buyer are adult enough to agree that waiting a few weeks for the baby birds to do their thing is not a big deal. Plus, as DB notes, they both get some social capital out of it.
But watch out for the dealership cat.
At 12% the interest on $90 for 6 weeks $1,246
Whose pocket does this come out of?
John Henry
Brave Sir Robin…
$90,000 for a truck!!!. Good God Almighty.
Read up on bats in old English churches
Robins? That's crazy. I could see if it was bald eagles or something like that, but robins?
With the way Congress performs, there must be robin nests in every office.
They need a snake.
Joe's car lot is going to the birds. We're GIVING away trucks at such low prices people are calling us "Bird Brains". Come in and see our Robins and take advantage of us. We wont squawk!
A 500 HP engine. LOL. More than a sherman tank.
I have a son of a co-worker who took about a 7 year loan to buy a $55,000 truck. Pretty soon you'll be taking out 30-year Loans to buy a car.
$90,000 for a truck. Amazing.
500 hp, huh? That's probably Just think of all the gas money the buyer's saving, waiting on the robins. The current MSRP for one of the big diesel - King Ranches is about $110k. So that dealer's going from robin to robbin'.
As I learned in my working life, the migratory bird act applies to damn near every frikkin' bird there is. The red tape has swollen to strangle any good of the original intent. Hell, here is Alabamastan we have geese that never migrate and, of course, they are covered too. Just like the ground near their nesting spots are covered.
What is that statement about how many felonies a day the average person commits?
The Canada geese thing really gets me too. When I see one on my iawn I get a bottle rocket. Bad enough when a heron leaves a crap on my dock the size of a digested perch, well that’s nature, but these geese leaving crap in the grass as invasive species, which is what they are, nope.
Anyway, thanks for the tip about clearing out any robins nests before bringing in a contractor whose license forbids him doing it, This time of year the trees are full of crows hunting baby birds and being chased by the distraught parents.
Please remind me, are migratory birds Interstate Commerce or are they Navigable Waters? Sorry, it's been a very long time since I took Constitutional Law...
When a pair of Carolina Wrens obtained access through an open door last spring and chose to nest in a wall sconce in my living room, the wife and I gave them the living room for 6 weeks. Without federal intervention or even reference to a law, just out of joy in the songbirds' idiosyncratic celebration of life. Leaving a window open seemed a small price to pay to watch that miracle of life from close up.
When a goddamn invasive House Sparrow built a nest one Sunday in the almost-framed house I was building in 2020, the worthless little things got their pile of twigs tossed right the heck out. Different species entirely, different response.
Sort of how we treat different nations' immigrants at the federal level.
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