Slog It Blog It, Tina Turns Them Off!

Tina Turner Is A Hit With Airport Staff.

Staff at Staverton airport in Gloucester have discovered a unique way of keeping birds off the runway. In an effort to stop the birds nesting on the tarmac, staff have mounted a loudspeaker to the roof of a van. During quiet times at the airport, they drive ‘through steamy windows’ up and down and airport blaring Tina Turner songs as loud as they can. Less ‘lets stay together’ and more off you go ‘on silent wings'. Normally we use the speakers on the top of the vehicle we use to drive around the airport to play bird distress calls,' head of operations Darren Lewington told our reporters at Molly Media. 'But when our bird distress noises weren't working properly, they turned the tape player on, and that day it was Tina Turner who scared the birds away.' The biggest problem for the airport are crows and gulls, and staff have tried a variety of methods to keep them away. Sounds cruel but ‘what's love got to do with it’ as the birds pose a threat to aircraft. As well as playing music, they have even lit Roman Candles. We won’t recommend that approach as ‘we don’t need another hero’. Staff have also taken to the runway themselves, beating their chests and waving black bags. Well obviously in the end Tina Turner was ‘simply the best, better than all the rest’.

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