"Shadow flipped through the newspaper to see if there was anything in it about dead men in a freight train. There wasn't. The only story of interest was on the cover: crows in record numbers were infesting the town. Local farmers wanted to hang dead crows around the town on public buildings to frighten the others away; ornithologists said that wouldn't work, that the living crows would simply eat the dead ones. The local were implacable. 'When they see the corpses of their friends' said a spokesman, 'they'll know that we don't want them here."
Gaiman - American Gods
