{"id":1032481,"date":"2022-03-24T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/24\/venice-hotels-arming-guests-with-water-guns-to-ward-off-seagulls\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T02:00:13","slug":"venice-hotels-arming-guests-with-water-guns-to-ward-off-seagulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/24\/venice-hotels-arming-guests-with-water-guns-to-ward-off-seagulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice hotels arming guests with water guns to ward off seagulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Venice-hotels-arming-guests-with-water-guns-to-ward-off-seagulls.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 23 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Hotels in Venice, Italy, announced guests are being armed against the city&#8217;s aggressive seagulls with an unusual form of protection: water guns.<\/p>\n<p>The AVA, the hotelier&#8217;s association for the city of Venice, said guests are being given orange water guns to ward off the city&#8217;s seagulls, which are known to aggressively go after food and anything else they see as edible.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;They really work, they&#8217;re also colored orange, which those birds don&#8217;t like,&#8221; Paolo Lorenzoni , director of the historic Gritti Hotel near the Grand Canal, told ANSA.<\/p>\n<p>He said the birds are already learning to avoid anyone brandishing a water gun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as they see the pistols, they fly away,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You don&#8217;t even need to use them, you just need to keep them on the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The AVA said it has been considering further measures to protect tourists from gulls, including the use of electrostatic and sound-based devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 23 (UPI) &#8212; Hotels in Venice, Italy, announced guests are being armed against the city&#8217;s aggressive seagulls with an unusual form of protection: water guns. The AVA, the hotelier&#8217;s association for the city of Venice, said guests are being given orange water guns to ward off the city&#8217;s seagulls, which are known to aggressively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1032482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}