The Sun tabloid, which has been known to pay for stories, claimed to have identified the pilferer as Jason Lidbury, a jobless 17-year-old who, according to the newspaper's account, claims he's swiped 1, 500 pigeons and sold them to an unknown buyer for 32 cents each.
32.
Corvids also move their food around between hiding places to avoid thievery, but only if they have previously been thieves themselves ( that is, they remember previous relevant social contexts, use their own experience of having been a thief to predict the behavior of a pilferer, and can determine the safest course to protect their caches from being pilfered ).
33.
A couple of " inspiring " posters saying things like " We believe in being frugal, do you ? " or " Only truly lost souls are encouraged to take more than one per person . " might indicate to the pilferers that their action was discovered and met with displeasure . ( He should be able to come up with something much better to write . ) If it's pranksters they would be encouraged and then would deserve most anything he threw at them, but someone who took them e . g . as padding for moving boxes or another use might be discouraged.
34.
In this book, he maintained that not skin color but the black population's traits of character and behavior were the cause of prejudice . " The negro, " he wrote, was " an intrinsically inferior type of humanity . " He declared that the black individual in America was slowly and steadily deteriorating, and was " immersed in poverty, steeped in ignorance, stifled with immorality, inherently lazy, and a born pilferer . " Several black intellectuals such as Booker T . Washington, W . E . B . Du Bois and Charles W . Chesnutt, attacked the author and sought to suppress his book.
