It’s About Time They Upgraded The Carrier Pigeon

@92BuickLeSabre:

Some people do eat wood pigeons which are essentially the city version but just eating healthier. I remember it being featured on some cooking program.

Yeebles

@acrobatic rabbit: Exactly.

@~/Desktop: indeed. and they just wile away the time until the day when they strike and devour our souls!!

acrobatic rabbit

@SoaringDisbelief: I think PN - Long time reader, new commenter. means how do you train a bird to do such a thing? Because that's what boggles my mind.

acrobatic rabbit

Now isn't that an elegant solution.

@92BuickLeSabre: Yeah, doves are delicious! Sir, I'll have the bald eagle to start with a side of dove pudding!

Magic Beans? Sure, I'll Buy Some!!

@Omar Abuhashish: The Colonel just rolled over in his grave...

@Heliophage: I love doves of course. They're beautiful.

What a silly question!

That's how all those prison inmates are getting cell phones! I'm in the wrong business.

'Criminally insane gene's activated, thinking of new cell phone business model...'

bonedog73

There's nothing wrong with accessorizing. So what if I'm a pigeon?

notsosecretlandfill

@92BuickLeSabre:

How do you feel about doves?

@600Followers_GitEmSteveDave: Also, good crack.

junyo

@bobojuice: Dude, When you see "squab" on the menu at a nice restaurant like Le Cirque? Yeah, pigeon. Young, farm raised pigeon, but still pigeon.

junyo

@92BuickLeSabre: According to Anthony Bourdain and his show, pigeon is supposed to be a delicacy in some parts of the world. Although i certainly wouldn't eat any pigeon off the street.

What if you used to halves of a coconut and banged them together...... oh wait... wrong part of the scene.. Are these African or Eurpean Pigeons? Any relation to the Swallow???

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned RFC 1149 yet:

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IphtashuFitz

My dad has exactly the same phone.

Tokeloshe

@PN - Long time reader, new commenter.: They're trained to fly from coop A to coop B, where the second person takes off what ever it is the pigeon was flying and gives it to whoever it's supposed to go to. Think of modern mail. You put you mail in your mailbox (point A), where someone gets it and takes it to a mail center (point B). The mail center then either distributes the mail and you grandma gets that singing birthday card, or they mail it on to someone else who can distribute it.

Now, obviously, this guy's using a somewhat different application of the mail pigeon concept, but whatever.

SoaringDisbelief

@92BuickLeSabre:
Why the pigeon hate? They do carry diseases especially in their poop but that's just because they're wild animals. I always thought it was pretty cruel that they always tried to poison them and whatnot.
But when I was a kid I remember being at the park and people would throw bread crumbs for the pigeons and that kinda stuff is pretty happy in my memories.
One time we found a baby pigeon that had fallen (or gotten kicked out) of it's nest and broken it's wing on the sidewalk, so my mom cast its wing and we kept it for a while until it got strong enough to go off on it's own.
That pigeon was actually pretty awesome-when we tried to set it free it actually kept flying back and landing on my shoulder, which was pretty neat since I had never actually taught it to stay on my shoulder or anything.

tekdemon

give the pidgin a pantech c300...

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easier to carry...

urbanturban666

Do all pigeons have the eye of the devil?

so this is how they tweet?

@big_mike65 gunna brk out tmr, lol. wanna come?

chrstphr

I thought the caption was going to read "New, from Sprint..."

shadowplay

@Jay Scullin: I think we know where they stored the memory card.

@HasANewHPMini_Cordfucious of Tech Clan: Hmmmm, No'lins. One place where you can get some goooood cracklin'.

@92BuickLeSabre: Hey I'm from New Orleans, I know some folks who eat Nutria and Squirrel, a little cowain ( Turtle). So pigeon just may be a viable protein. God knows we have enough in Jackson Square

@Trick: Did it look like this?

And did he look like this?

Ummm...hey kids, you might look up the word "squab" sometime.

My friend Hugo who sewed a pigeon and a rat together to make a Pegeon-Rat that was pretty impressive.

Hugo was a little weird though, then again anyone kept in a attic and fed a bucket of fish heads once a week would be I guess...

@Now Flame-Broiled!: Can it be both?

Griffehpoo

@Griffehpoo: It's not a matter of how they carry it, it's a simple question of weight ratios.

EaglePuncher

@92BuickLeSabre: It's no more disgusting than eating chicken. In fact, it's like a cross between geese and duck.

Charles Ip

@shalegac: The little sock-thing or the bird?

Yup, a standard creeper.

AnnataVarro

That pidgin is PISSED

Jay Scullin

@GC: Like suicide? You know... try it out and see if you like it.

@92BuickLeSabre: Pigeon is one of those things that everyone should try once.

@William Bradshaw: I think I just had an aneurysm.

Fractal the Meek

@92BuickLeSabre: MMMmmm NYFP New York Fried Pigeon! I called it no one take my idea!

Omar Abuhashish

I think if we had video of this, we would now have the "Dramatic Pigeon" in addition to the Dramatic Woodchuck.

I tried doing the same thing with my Yorkshire Terrier by placing my Silicone covered lg dare. D; sadly it fell out after the dog decided she didn't it and thought it was uncomfortable.
I wonder how the pidgeons feel about it... Or can they feel pain? does the rule about fish apply here?

William Bradshaw

I get visions of Dick Dastardly and Muttley screaming Catch that Pigeon!!

Azteck

in new york city, they use rats, so people on the subway gets signal.

They should have attached it to a Swallow. Since they can carry coconuts to England they would have no problem with a cell phone.

Xeno

@GC: That is completely disgusting. The idea of eating pigeon just freaks me out.

And it can be fixed with a simple culinary magic spell?

You look at the bird and you say the word "Squab!"

Then *presto-changeo!* one of my least favorite things turns into one of my most favorite things!

Roaming charges?

man, thats... the opposite of animal cruelty. its like Animal Awsomeulty.

'Can you hear me now?'

ryno365

Swallows can carry coconuts (If they're African). Whats the big deal about a Pigeon? What can a Pigeon do?? Pff.

Added bonus - once you get the cell phone, free snack!

Yikes. For a second there, I thought the phone had been stitched into the pigeon.

Also, I hate pigeons. So anything that makes them even appear to be useful has bad idea written all over it.

(Seriously, rats with wings is an insult to rats.)

Perhaps if two pigeons carried it with a length of twine tied to their dorsal feathers...

Griffehpoo

That would look bad ass hooked to my belt!

I still cant figure out how pigeon carries work. Even more difficult is the hawks they used in the middle east to go anywhere. Mind boggling.