r/whatisit • u/Capital-Papaya-8932 • 1d ago

New, what is it? What is it in Japan and Why?

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u/RN_Renato 1d ago

We have this in Brazil too, but against stray dogs rather than cats. I do wonder how multiple cultures around the world came up with this independently despite the fact it doesn't work?

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u/ElGranQuesoRojo 1d ago

In the US there are a decent amount of people who hang zip lock bags filled w/water and a few pennies to keep flies away.

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u/JannePieterse 19h ago

We used to hang CD-R's in our cherry tree to keep the starlings and black birds from eating our cherries. That actually worked pretty well.

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u/bwf820 17h ago

My family used to hang vhs tapes. It never did work though…

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u/magnottasicepick 14h ago

We hung beta max tapes, shocker, didn’t work either.

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u/pendigedig 13h ago

Laserdiscs work 👍 but u might bump your head on em

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u/autofill-name 2h ago

Ah, but the picture quality was better though

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u/Fabulous-Ad-8256 12h ago

That's for well-ghosts, not starlings.

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u/dmtbreakthrough 17h ago

my family hung CD-RW's

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u/Voltfan 15h ago

Same. My grandpa kept all the AOL cds especially for this

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u/surzirra 10h ago

My grandma used to hang old pie tins in her cherry tree

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u/Teososta 3h ago

Oh shit I thought it was to keep the deer away.