I had another close call yesterday: a fat pigeon-missile rocketing past my face. If I hadn’t been so speedy, my pigeon-to-the-face count would be three now (close encounters nearing 5). Stupid fat greasy morons, did you learn to fly from Haligonian taxi-drivers or is there a mountain of fucking food on my face?
—I WASH MY FACE
This article appears in Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2009.
the only explanation is that animals don’t see you. You are not of the living. I have a feeling you know what i am getting at.
i also hate pigeons.
I was surprised to observe that the pigeons down at the ferry terminal are addicted to Tim’s. Yup, them too. My daughter came out of the terminal with her doughnut bag in hand, and at the sound of the paper bag crinkling, they swarmed her. Startled when one actually hit her in the face with its wing, she dropped the bag and ran. Of course, that was their devious plan. They gobbled the doughnut up, then they waited on the building for their next victim.
its going to come out one of these days, tim hortons for sure puts some sort of crack in their products, right now i’m trying to drink back the swill of one of these “coffees” and cannot find one reason why anyone would say it is good, let alone better than any other coffee anywhere ever.
This bitch reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine was told she had a big head.
i once got shit hawk bombed right in the face; they are way more fowl than pidgeons(pretty good pun eh?)
This happened to me the other day in downtown Toronto!! Except I was carrying a candy cane hot chocolate from Second Cup! Walked across the crosswalk to work and felt this major fluttering in the back of my hair…the crazy bird was attacking me. Mind you, I was having a less-than-good hair day so it may have thought my head was its nest.
You’re supposed to hit it!
This bitch reminds me of Fabio on the rollercoaster.
http://www.cnn.com/resources/potd/1999/03/…
On my first date with my boyfriend, we were walking down Dresden Row last January and one pooped on his shoulder. Romantic eh?
Actually hollah!, that’s supposed to be good luck… then again, probably only because some guy once got shat on and was being made fun of, so he told his persecutors that it was considered good luck so they’d FRO. 🙂
i’ll never forget the time a family was lrtting their kid feed tree rats in stanley park and all of a sudden they went cujo and started biting her hand and the parents panicked and i started grabbing the little fuckers and getting nipped myself those things are evil when their too tame
Do you wash your face with fish and chips maybe?
they are dirty…and very persistant
Seagulls are a lot more aggressive than pigeons, but I respect them more because they’re bad-ass birds and don’t take shit from no one. Seagulls are the bad-boys of the bird world. If seagulls were human, they’d totally wear leather jackets and be in a gang. Pigeons are the weird, sketchy, greasy old homeless men you see around downtown.
Wear a wide brimmed hat, keep your head down and your mouth shut. Them dirty birdies know their enemies, er …. targets, heh heh heh. I used to feed a couple dozen a day when I lived in Downtown Dartmouth and they shit on everybody and everything but me.
I like pigeons better than most people.
“Seagulls are the bad-boys of the bird world.”
Clearly, sir, you have not seen a crow kick the shit out of a seagull and a swarm of pigeons for some breadcrumbs. They are natures brutal assassins.
Canada geese can be less than pleasant when the mood strikes them(I’m not sure i’ve seen any around Halifax)