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Faced with the inconvenience of introducing real falcons into the eco-system to battle their pigeon problem, Liverpool City Council have opted to purchase Robotic Falcons to keep the numbers down. Splashing out £20,000 on 10 ‘Robops’, the ersatz birds of prey will bravely protect the European City of Culture against the rats of the air by flapping their robotic wings and no doubt emitting their robotic squawks before eating the pigeons in a robo-orgy of unadulterated robo-violence. The menace posed by our filthy feathered friends actually makes this a worthwhile if bizarre investment: cleaning buildings and monuments of bird poop costs the council £160,000 a year.

“When we get the full force up, they won’t know what hit them”, council spokeswoman Sarah Langworthy chuckled sadistically, whilst mentally calculating pigeon death to council saving ratios. Robo-cats to catch largely non-robotic rats are said to be not currently under consideration.

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