No bird is going to make me look foolish : Officers answer unruly woodpecker call: Trish Long Trish Long, El Paso Times
In 1935, residents of Montana Street were being pestered by a woodpecker, so they called the El Paso Police Department. Two patrolmen armed with butterfly nets and helmets showed up.
This article ran in the Times on April 19, 1935:
Police keep safe distance as visiting woodpecker drills Montana St. trees
Rat-a-tat-tat.
With a vigorous pounding and thumping, a large and determined woodpecker was making sawdust of trees in the 2300 block of Montana St. today.
The bird began his depredations Sunday in the yard of the F.J. Rivas home, 2301 Montana St.
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