The Fog Bender was on the scene:
the other day i was at the park enjoying the sun and a beer and i heard a “thunk” sound followed by about 15 people all go “OHHHHH!!” i look and see a crowd gathering around a guy holding the pigeon which he accidentally knocked out of the sky with a frizbee so naturally i took a couple pictures and shook my head with pity for the poor winged rat.
Wow. That must be a 180-gram tournament-quality Frisbee. I just hope the victim wasn’t our majestic friend from last week.
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Nobody believes me but you can eat pigeons, seriously, check out this recipe:
http://honest-food.net/2010/01/08/making-wild-game-tortelli/
Pigeon = squab, which is yummy. But squab are farm raised on clean food, not human poo and cigarette butts.
Ha Ha! So true!
Silly pigeon — Frisbee stunts are for kids!
So I appreciate that most San Franciscans don’t give a shit about injured pigeons, but out of curiosity I tried to use The Google to find out what to do if you find an injured bird — where I used to live there were a number of wildlife rehab-type places you could bring them to. Doesn’t seem like there’s much in SF, this is the best I could find: http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/f23/san-francisco-pigeon-rescue-44195.html
It would be nice to know if there were someplace you could bring them to at least be put down humanely… I’ve seen more than one injured pigeon and never know what to do.
My wife tried that once — she got the impression that the regular city and county animal handlers were not interested, beyond putting down diseased animals. I mean, face it, pigeons, as a species, are not in any danger of disappearing and never will be. If you are willing to trap an individual specimen, you can always get someone who knows his or her business to kill it nicely. What you cannot get is someone who will care for that feral pigeon as if it was a human child.
Yeah that’s what I meant — having it killed humanely. I just hate to think of an animal suffering and starving to death or whatever, even if it’s “just a pigeon”!
We could always get my farmgirl 93-yr-old Grandma on speed-dial. She can kill much larger chickens with a wicked one-handed neck twist that’s over in a second.
Or you could just take the bird over to 16th and Guerrero and give it to Lone Star Swan. I’m sure he’d know what to do.
An official ultimate disc is 175g.
this is true.
but 180 flies so much smoother
Frisbee nerds, classic.