Landmines and Bombs in Paris

Someone recently asked me if Paris is a dangerous city. My answer was quite simply, extremely! Paris is full of landmines and bombs from above. What I call landmines others might refer to as merde or dog merde and the bombs are merde again but this time from above, from birds.

Everyone knows about the very unpleasant little packages left behind by Parisian dogs and their nasty owners who don't clean up after them. I don't know how the French accept this as a normal part of life. How can they think it's acceptable to leave it there, ignoring the next poor sucker who comes along and steps in it. And you know people step in it, you see it all the time. It's disgusting. Paris is a great city for sightseeing but you never get to see anything because you are forced to constantly look at the ground to be sure you don't stand on a 'landmine'.

The less talked about problem is from birds. Paris is renowned for it's beautiful tree lined streets. I agree that from a distance they look beautiful but look closer you'll see a mess of bird merde under almost every tree. So you need to be careful where you walk and from what's coming from above.

Ferbent told me about an incident at his hotel the other day. A guy came in off the street asking to use the bathroom as he was unlucky enough to have a bird dropping land directly on his head. I don't know what these birds eat or how big they are but they leave quite a mess. The poor guy had to have a shower in the hotel!