A hatch on a Swedish church tower inadvertently left
open for some three decades resulted in 2 tons (1.8 tonnes) of
pigeon droppings amassing in the tower.
The church's property manager says the layer of
droppings was 30cm (12in) deep when it was discovered during a May
inspection of the Heliga Trefaldighets Kyrka in Gavle, 170km (105
miles) north of Stockholm.
Lennart Helzenius said on Thursday that church staff
had been shocked by the sheer number of bags of excrement cleaners
were removing from the tower. He says the droppings filled 80 bags
in the first round of cleaning, and then just as many in the second
round.
Helzenius says the hatch had probably been left open
since the 1980s.
