Someone glued tiny MAGA hats and a Trump wig onto pigeons in Las Vegas (WTF?)

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/19/maga-hat-pigeons/



By Katie Mettler

Feb. 19, 2020 at 10:31 a.m. EST

On the eve of the democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, an underground group calling itself P.U.T.I.N. filled the skies with a flock of protest pigeons, each dressed as a small surrogate for President Trump.

One wore a tiny, coiffed orange wig. The others donned red hats decorated with the president’s campaign call, Make America Great Again. Both were affixed to the pigeons’ heads using eyelash glue.

An email to local media from P.U.T.I.N., an acronym for Pigeons United To Interfere Now and also the last name of Russia’s president, said the project was an “aerial protest piece” that came after months of “exhaustive research, logistical hurdles and pigeon care taking." The P.U.T.I.N. message was sent anonymously to NBC’s Las Vegas affiliate, Fox 5 KVVU-TV and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The Washington Post obtained a copy of the announcement.

The self-proclaimed “underground radical group” said in its email that the pigeon project was inspired by Operation Tarcana, a CIA mission conducted during the Cold War 1970s in which cameras were attached to pigeons to spy on the Soviets.

The targets of this pigeon protest are the six Democratic presidential candidates who will be debating Wednesday at 9 p.m. EST in Las Vegas: Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg, former vice president Joe Biden, former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg.

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??? There'd better be charges of animal cruelty once the identities of its members are exposed!

[virgogal]

1. I agree,dreadful.

[Bluepinky]

2. Isn't that animal abuse?

Hope the pigeons can lose the hats and wigs to become normal again (although I’d rather have a pigeon POTUS than the orange horror show we have now).

[Greybnk48]

3. Animal cruelty is never funny.

I truly hope they find the perpetrators to be Republican ratf*ckers. I'd hate to think liberals would be this cruel.

Cruelty aside the optics are horrible. That's why I smell a right wing rat.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Whoever did it needs to be charged.

[Initech]

5. This is animal abuse and cruelty. There's no low they won't stoop to.

[Journeyman]

6. Fortunately, from what I just read, eyelash glue is easy to remove and shouldn't cause damage . . .

damage to either the bird's feathers or their eyes.

At least the perps appear to have done some research to minimize harm.

Gotta say, the bird with the Trump wig was unimpressive . . .

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though it's brain appears to be considerably larger than its role model's.

[Dennis Donovan]

7. Do the pigeons know that?

A bird's ability of flight is dependent on it being balanced and aerodynamic. Even lightweight little fake wigs or hats can mess that up to the point of making it unstable in flight.

They should've considered that.

[marble falls]

9. "minimize" harm? How about no harm at all being the standard.

[marble falls]

8. What terrible idea.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Flying around aimlessly, shitting on people

That's so Trump.

And this looks like really really bad photoshop.
A hoax? Again so Trump.

[Dennis Donovan]

11. The source is WaPo

I doubt they'd fall for a photoshop.

[C_U_L8R]

12. Sure looks it in the photos

[GoCubsGo]

13. Probably the same asshole that was gluing cowboy hats on them last month.

That's unless it was the asshole from Reno who was gluing sombreros onto the heads of pigeons. Might be the same person. Hope they wind up doing time for animal cruelty.

[Brainfodder]

14. Just gonna laugh at the stupidity?

Not sorry.

The flying rats are a major nuisance in Vegas, I'm not SusanCollins about pigeons.

[Totally Tunsie]

15. So Chump fans find one more way to s*** on the Dems...

[nobuddy]

16. The brain of the pigeon is similar to the brain of the MAGA choad

[Wounded Bear]

17. That's an ugly way to 'protest' if that's what it is...nt