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After months of deliberation and proposals, state legislators and the mayor of P.S. Boston, Cleft Collinson, reached a conclusion: they were to shoot down, or as they termed it, “forcedly immobilize," the birds. The Mayor promptly issued a HUD notice to be delivered to all citizens and the AACA--the Android Airway Control Agency. Hopefully, since it was half past six in the afternoon, within the parameters of mandatory HUD time, every inhabitant wealthy enough to own an Orbit Pod would be actively connected to the network, perusing the daily updates--digitally reported, assembled, and submitted in Lower Standard English, so that even the well-to-do, half-literates of the city could remain informed.