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311 complaint of the day: Somebody's tying pigeons' legs together on the Common - again

By adamg on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 10:14am

An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about the cruel activity on the Common yesterday:

Someone is back to tying string around pigeons legs. Thank God I have my eye glasses and fine scissors to remove the string when I am able to catch the bird. I just caught a newborn pigeon and removed an 18 inch long screen tied to its ankle with black string in the Central Burying Grounds. I hope it is not the same person that was arrested a month ago at Downtown Crossing.

Neighborhoods: 
Beacon Hill
Downtown
Free tagging: 
Wildlife
Pigeons
Boston Common
311


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Comments

By MrZip on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 10:24am.

n/t

up
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By anon on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 10:24am.

Takes all types I suppose

By Lee on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 11:58am.

Cruelty is entertainment and appetite arousing for some pathetic creatures.

By John Costello on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 10:51am.

Raising Canes, based on the amount of branded trash around DTX in the past week, is doing great.

"We only care about the cute ones" - Denis Leary.

By cybah on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 10:56am.

Last night I decided that I was going to try out Cane's in DTX.

Right as I was walking up, BFD was there shutting it down for over crowding. (this was about 5pm)

So yeah, they are doing very well. Not sure why the hype tho, I ended up getting food at their Boylston Street location a quick subway ride away. The place was dead too. Not sure why DTX is over crowded.

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 11:33am.

Met my son there for lunch. It is now his fave of all the chains, aside from Neighborhood Kitchen in Medford. Certainly decent stuff for DTX.

The place in that whack food court on Federal St. is pretty great, too, just tricky to get into at lunch hour.

By Neal on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 11:50am.

Birdies really is great, I usually hit them on the days I don't carry my lunch to work. Raising Cane's is just fine, but I don't get the hype. Given a choice between the two, I always pick Birdies.

By Frelmont on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 1:58pm.

Cane’s is the least-healthy fast food option available.

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 3:42pm.

When you eat 1 or more fast food meals a day.

When it doesn't matter: when you get takeout or eat out once every couple of weeks, and cook from scratch most of the rest of the time.

By Username Unknown on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 12:08pm.

Tying pigeon legs together was a thing...

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 12:34pm.

WTF is wrong with some people.

By anon on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 12:34pm.

Reminds me of something I once saw lying on the ground on the Common many years ago. A severed pigeon's head made into a necklace. It was very "fresh", as if the pigeon hadn't been dead too long, and it made me nauseous. But the really horrifying thing was how surgically neat and perfect it was. This was no crude thing, somebody knew what they were doing. I never forgot it and still wonder why somebody would do that and how it came to be lying on the ground on Boston Common.

By Frelmont on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 1:55pm.

Was one of the pigeons named Phoebe by any chance?

By anon on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 2:27pm.

As a young teen, my buddies and I would get bored, and try and catch pigeons in the common using Burger King fries as bait. We'd also catch rats that came above ground after it rained. We didn't hurt them or anything like that. It's a boy thing. At a later teen age, we tried ketamine, and sat down in the common laughing at the pigeons. For some reason we thought they were funny