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.
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Tom Lehrer is at it again!
By MrZip
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 10:24am
n/t
Takes all types I suppose
By anon
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 10:24am
Takes all types I suppose
Yours is the only inoffensive comment so far.
By Lee
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 11:58am
Cruelty is entertainment and appetite arousing for some pathetic creatures.
Meanwhile...
By John Costello
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.
Overcrowding
By cybah
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.
Try Birdie's Yet?
By SwirlyGrrl
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.
Agreed
By Neal
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.
Cane’s is the least-healthy
By Frelmont
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 1:58pm
Cane’s is the least-healthy fast food option available.
When that matters
By SwirlyGrrl
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.
Yeah. Quarterly is all the
By Frelmont
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 6:02pm
Yeah. Quarterly is all the risk-exposure across all fast-food for me thanks.
“We only want the pretty ones
By Frelmont
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 6:01pm
“We only want the pretty ones.” -McManus
Who Knew???
By Username Unknown
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 12:08pm
Tying pigeon legs together was a thing...
Yeah
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 12:34pm
WTF is wrong with some people.
Something I once saw
By anon
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.
Santeria?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 5:30pm
That's one religion I can think of that has some pigeon-related sacrifice rituals.
Soul Sacrifice
By anon
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 11:27am
Santeria played that one at Woodstock
Was one of the pigeons named
By Frelmont
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 1:55pm
Was one of the pigeons named Phoebe by any chance?
Back in the day
By anon
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
Maybe
By Username Unknown
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 5:58pm
It's the only way to keep the pigeon from driving the bus.
(Parents reference only)
My cousin Herb drives a bus
By BPlusPlayer
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 7:40pm
My cousin Herb drives a bus almost every day.
True story.
Bay Area Rapid Transit has a pigeon problem
By anon
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 7:31am
Their solution is to hire the Falcon Force to rid the stations of pesky pigeons. Not sure if the MBTA is looking to enlist falcons and hawks to eject the pigeons?
Who said the MBTA had a problem?
By lbb
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 9:18am
This thread is about animal cruelty, directed at pigeons, which aren't many people's favorite animal -- but whatever sick motivation was behind this, you can bet it wasn't about removing the scourge of pigeons (if there is one) from the Common.
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