06/17/2026
We’ve been following the inside track of this story for more than a year now. It is “wild” that it made the WSJ. The press can be vultures, you know?
Those white splashes on the sidewalk aren’t fresh paint. They’re vulture p**p. Lots of it.
Large groups of black vultures have taken up residence in the town of Hillsborough, N.C., covering the quaint historic district in feathers and foul-smelling excrement.
P**p was so thick beneath one tree that people slipped on the sidewalk when it rained. When public-works crews went to hose down the area, they couldn’t complete the job. The smell was so overwhelming that workers started retching.
Now, the malodorous mess has led to legal squawking between the town and two of its residents—a retired couple who the town said kept feeding the creatures deli meat and other scraps.
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