These were meant to kill people - not birds! and other Kimball, NE Things to Do Tips

It's probably more humane to feed a pigeon Alka-Seltzer and watch them explode rather than have them killed by a nuke.

See what a nuclear missile looks like! It's nothing real special, something like a scaled down Saturn rocket from what I can tell. Here in Gotte Park you can see a decommissioned Titan I ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile) given to the city of Kimball by SAC (Strategic Air Command).

Pigeons love this thing. It also spelled death for them as walking around the missile revealed to me three pigeon carcasses stuck in some of the metal structure at the bottom of the missile. They seemed to get their heads stuck at a narrow point - probably flapped themselves to death. If you see more or less - let me know. Just a morbid curiousity I have.

One dead pigeon can be seen in the lower right side of the picture I took.

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Directions: Nine blocks East of the intersection of Highways 71 and 30 (the two main roads in downtown Kimball)
Website: http://www.ci.kimball.ne.us/gotte_park.htm