'No bird is going to make me look foolish': Officers answer unruly woodpecker call: Trish Long
'No bird is going to make me look foolish': Officers answer unruly woodpecker call: Trish Long Trish Long, El Paso Times In 1935, residents of Montana Street were being pestered by a woodpecker, so they called the El Paso Police Department. Two patrolmen armed with butterfly nets and helmets showed up. This article ran in the Times on April 19, 1935: Police keep safe distance as "visiting" woodpecker drills Montana St. trees Rat-a-tat-tat. With a vigorous pounding and thumping, a large and determined woodpecker was making sawdust of trees in the 2300 block of Montana St. today...
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