Because pigeons are people, too
Talk about wasted resources:
I won't even comment on the absurdity of Perry's other quote in the Times blurb:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced today it is offering a $2,000 reward for information on one or more shooters involved in impaling pigeons in downtown Seattle with metal darts.Perry and her brainwashed PETA cohorts are living in a dreamland, one where it's okay to throw $2,000 down the drain to make a political statement about the value of every single life (because even the life of disease-ridden winged rats is worth saving). Apparently for these folks, the never-ending list of injustices being perpetrated against human beings on a daily basis - even just here in Seattle - is worth turning a blind to. But somebody's messing with the pigeons? They gotta go.
Several Seattle residents have called PETA in the past two weeks to report seeing three injured pigeons fluttering around with needle-like projectiles — about three to four inches long — piercing their heads, said Tori Perry, cruelty case worker for the Norfolk, Virginia-based organization.
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The darts were fired from a blow gun, lodging directly behind the birds' eyes without penetrating their brains, Perry said.
I won't even comment on the absurdity of Perry's other quote in the Times blurb:
This is just a horrifying case," she said. "Someone who would do this to an animal is a short step away from doing this to a human being."Sort of speaks for itself, doesn't it?
i'm all about supportin critters...however pigeons deserve no one's pity, let alone are they to be regarded as one step shy of humans.
...they're vile.
...they're a nuisance.
although i wouldn't advocate pelting them with darts, i'm pretty sure there are bigger concerns PETA.
"they're vile....they're a nuisance."
This car bomb went off two streets from me in 1972, I looked over, it was a huge street directed column, streets are like canyons, they focus the smoke and stuff up, there were so many of them,
that it was just another bomb, except, that pidgeons killed by previous bombs, started falling in the adjacent streets, so the point of this is, where the heck was PETA when the IRA were murdering pidgeons?
If a little old lady in rural Pa was cutting the heads of Squab or whatever, because it was the only vitamins she would see until the deficit is paid off,
PETA would drag her out and shoot her or somethng, but when heavy hitters like the IRA or Hezzbolah do it, PETA do nothing.
I know this, we were fecked up in the head to throw stones at black kids, we should have thrown stones at the PETA loving Boston Globe.
The Commie faggot PETA loving Englishers.
Tazia
There are similar occurances of bird violence in the Bay Area too, although with ducks instead of pigeons. There were quite a few ducks found with darts impaling their heads in a park. I think the violence has happened in Vallejo or one of those Vile V-named cities in the North Bay. I think PETA is involved with this one as well.
Although I have no love for PETA, I say up the reward; who says humans are worth more than a true animal? Yes, probably most humans think they are worth a shit or two more than a duck or pigeon, but at least true animals aren't destroying their only habitat, a species-wide slow suicide along with the genocide of untold other creatures.
If you are caught eating a swan in England,
you are castrated, your eyes are removed with a red hot branding iron, and your childre are usually cast into the sea or (if they're well behaved and of the Saxon race) put up for adoption.
Even with these drastic penalties, the number of swans being eaten by Lithuanian migrants has increased. only the Queen can eat a swan.
I refer you to my last diatribe against the Boston Globe, you can append, "they are a pack of swan-eating monarchist bastards".
That's the view from Southie of course.
Tazia
"Apparently for these folks, the never-ending list of injustices being perpetrated against human beings on a daily basis - even just here in Seattle - is worth turning a blind to. But somebody's messing with the pigeons? They gotta go."
working to correct one injustice is not equivalent to advocating neglect for all others. as an organization for animal rights, PETA is of course investing their time and resources into ensuring the maintenance of animal rights, just like amnesty international invests its time and resources into ensuring the maintenance of human rights. groups form around common goals for a reason and it's a little absurd to criticize them for tackling injustices that relate to their cause instead of every other injustice in the world.