Crows Outsmart Japan

Alfred Hitchcock once dreamed of a world where birds attacked at will and sent an entire town into a frenzy. Well lookout Japan, here comes your newest enemy. They are nesting on power lines and destroying garbage bags. Crows are apparently so rampant that they are causing major blackouts and sending fear into the hearts of the Japanese. “Japanese react to crows because we fear them,” said Michio Matsuda, a board member of the Wild Bird Society of Japan and author of books on crows. “We are not sure sometimes who is smarter, us or the crows.” So wait, Crows are smarter than humans? When did this happen? How could we have let this happen. Here's how.
“In the old days, crows and humans could live together peacefully, but now the species are clashing,” said Naoki Satou, the chief of planning in Tokyo’s environmental department, which conducts crow countermeasures. “All we really want to do is go back to that golden age of co-existence.”
Ah, remember the golden age? I remember when I used to be able to sit on a park bench and peacefully feed a crow some popcorn or sunflower seeds. Gone are those days and alas they are missed. Haven't the Japanese ever heard of scarecrows?
A link to this ridiculous article HERE.