SHANGRALA'S

AT THE CAR WASH!


      Unlike Alfred Hitchcock, we don't have a scary story to tell you, but it is a pretty interesting one. Our story begins with Mr. Bill Dougherty and a car wash in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Bill owns a company that manufactures and installs car wash systems. Now, understand that these are complete systems, including the money changer and money taking machines.
      The problem started when the new owner complained to Bill that he was losing significant amounts of money from his coin machines each week. He went as far as to accuse Bill's employees of having a key to the boxes and ripping him off.
      Bill just couldn't believe that his people would do that, so they set up a camera to catch the thief in action.

This Is What They Caught On Film! Enjoy :)
Shangrala's At The Car Wash
That's a bird sitting on the change slot of the machine.

Shangrala's At The Car Wash
The bird had to go down into the machine,
and back up inside to get to the money!

Shangrala's At The Car Wash
That's three quarters he has in his beak!



Shangrala's At The Car Wash
One bird would go up inside the machine
to jimmy coins loose, and the other birds
would grab them and fly off with them.

Shangrala's At The Car Wash
      Starlings, the birds pictured here, are often attracted to bright, shiny objects and will collect them for nesting or attracting a mate. Most likely one or more starlings was attracted by the glint of overlooked quarters in the change cup and made off with them; other starlings saw where the quarters were coming from and imitated the behavior, learning in the process how to work as teams to retrieve coins from inside the machine itself.



Like Hitchcock's birds,
these birds are no bird brains!
Shangrala's At The Car Wash
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