Blackburn Rovers, along with other football clubs have recently been plagued by fans entering their playing area. Unfortunately for Rovers, this could lead to disciplinary action from the FA, including points deductions or even ground closure if this problem is not addressed. But help may be at hand from an unlikely source halfway across the world.
On their chicken farms in India, Rovers’ owners, the Venky’s, have had a conflict of conservation and commercial interests as regards one of India’s most famous wild animals. There has been a revival in fortunes for India’s tiger population, following years of decline, nearly ending in these big cats extinction. But thanks to a programmed survival plan, Indian tigers are starting to make a comeback. On the other side of the coin, this has led to a rare phenomenon of man-eating tiger attacks on people, along with domesticated animals. But Venky’s believe they may have found a solution to this problem. It is known as ‘Operation Shot Stopper’.
At their egg hatcheries, various trials have been carried out on prototype eggs with hardened shells. This followed complaints from consumers moaning about flimsy shells falling to pieces when people dip their soldiers into their eggs. Results have proved successful, not only in producing eggs with more robust shells, but scientists also created a by-product from this research. This super-hard egg shell has been invented which makes a wonderful projectile. Not only that, it is able to be used as an alternative for producing silicon chips.
Trials were carried out on the tigers by expert marksmen shooting them with these new eggshell projectiles. One of the pellets contained tranquiliser treated eggshell. This was used as a way of incapacitating tigers when they strayed into certain restricted areas. Various dosages of knockout drops were impregnated into the eggshell. This led to various strengths of tranquiliser, incapacitating even the largest big cat very quickly.
The other eggshell projectile used was not a tranquiliser, but contained a mini tracking chip. These were fired at selected tigers and proved to be extremely successful. Not only were they able to be used to track these tigers, but being eggshell, this material is totally biodegradable. So after a matter of time, it disintegrates into the animal’s metabolism, then follows nature’s usual removal process.
If such successful experiments were able to be used on an animal the size of a tiger, there is no reason why this process could not be used on human beings. If ever anybody encroaches illegally upon the Ewood Park playing surface, they could either be taken down with a tranquiliser or allowed to temporarily escape, with their movements able to be tracked at a later date. So the answer to Rovers’ pitch invasion problem could be a right good helping of chicken and chips.
