Lazy kids

We are often told how lazy the youth of today are. They sit around in front of one screen or other while eating themselves to obesity. They don’t want to help with house work, don’t play much sport, get mum or dad to drive them everywhere and will not get involved with community activities. Now this may be a bad thing but there is an up side.

There is this guy in our neighbourhood who puts bird and bat breeding boxes up trees. He loves the native fauna and will do everything in his power to ensure their survival. Just recently my partner was asking him if he has much trouble with vandals; he locates the boxes in trees in isolated parts of the burb. His reply was no. Back, say ten years ago, he would have to mount them at least 8 meters above the ground. Even then the local vandals would still throw rocks at them. Now he recons that 5 meters is more than enough and that it is rare to find any sign of damage.

Apparently the local vandals are too lazy (or fat) to climb that high.