The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem
10 comments
·November 3, 2025comrade1234
I really only wanted to see funny videos of pigeons being squirted but nothing...
intralogic
How does this work with a fixed gun? Perhaps its not a narrow jet as I was assuming. Is a broad cone or mist spray sufficient?
rollulus
As always there’s someone on the internet a step beyond. Meet the pussy wetter: https://pussywetter.com/
camgunz
There's a cat in our neighborhood that shits on our back porches multiple times a day (I have no idea how this is possible, maybe it means the cat will die soon!), and I finally got a huge industrial fan and hooked it up to a motion sensor. Mischief managed.
croisillon
previously:
May 2022, 103 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31377985
Marshferm
Our solution: feed the pigeons in a separate place where they congregate in wait. And it works.
neuroelectron
A loud bang works and you don't have to aim
secondcoming
The only thing that seemed to work for me was putting a thread across the railing where they used to land. I glued some cheap hooks to the wall either side of the railing and ran a thread over and back.
I’m not sure why it worked. They either can see the thread and get put off, or they don’t see it and freak out when they land on it. I’ve tried both black and white thread and both seem effective. It did snap once probably due to a pigeon being caught out but that’s not a problem.
It doesn’t getin my way either as the thread is loose enough for me to rest my arm on the handrail without it breaking.
My balcony has been crap free for about a year now and it cost like £2 to do.
cyb0rg0
TL;DR: I built a wifi-equipped water gun to shoot the pigeons on my balcony, controlled over the internet by a python script running openCV reading the camera image of my old iPhone.
Once in the Netherlands I saw the simplest solution to pigeons: they stretched a fishing line an inch or two over the balcony railing, so when pigeons would try to land they’d land on the fishing line and be off balance, flying away to a more stable place.
Seems it worked because the balcony was spotless. I’ve seen similar on European churches.