Swedish City Uses Chicken Feces to Keep Crowds Away From Festival
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Swedish City Uses Chicken Feces to Keep Crowds Away From Festival
By Lydia Smith On 4/30/20 at 9:07 AM EDT
A Swedish city has taken unusual measures to put off crowds from attending a festival. The city of Lund is planning to spread chicken manure in its central park to deter citizens from gathering.
Thousands of people usually visit the area to celebrate Walpurgis Night, a traditional holiday celebrated across Scandinavia. This year, officials want to keep people away from Lund because of the coronavirus outbreak, but there is no official lockdown in Sweden.
The chairman of the local council's environment committee, Gustav Lundblad, told the Sydsvenskan newspaper he believed spreading chicken feces was a good way to deter crowds.
"In light of the fact that we have a situation where Lund could very well become some kind of epicenter for the spread of infection during last April, I think as chairman of the Environment Committee that it was a good initiative," he said.
"We both get the opportunity to fertilize the lawns in the park and at the same time it will stink and then it may not be so nice to sit and drink beer in the park."