I laughed out loud when I saw this cartoon “Too Much Coffee Man” by Shannon Wheeler.
It reminded me why you should never throw a piece of bread down when in NYC or you’ll end up like this or worse.
I was in the Flatiron District and I got a sandwich at Panera Bread which is on 23 Street, right down the block from the Flatiron Building. I brought the sandwich back to the building and sat right outside the building where there are tables and chairs on the east side.
A pigeon came by, and sniffed around the ground. I threw a piece of bread down for him, and all of a sudden, it seemed like a flock of 100 pigeons surrounded me. It was a reminder of why you shouldn’t do that.
In Boston, I’ve had little birds, like sparrows, or something like that, come right onto my table and eat from my plate. Luckily the pigeons don’t do that in NYC. They call pigeons “flying rats” in NYC. I don’t feel that, but I don’t want a flock of them surrounding me. It’s sort of scary, like that old Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds.”
In NYC, I’ve seen people feeding pigeons in the parks and they are surrounded by them with some on their shoulders. There is a lady who does this in front of the MET Museum. I filmed her one time and she got mad and chased me away because she said I was scaring the pigeons.
I took a screen shot from my video. You can see the lady cutting up the food and making a thing of it, using an ironing board as a counter to work on.
Can you chase pigeons away from free food?
Till next time . . .
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