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How To: Catch A Ton Of Pigeons. Or, Why Is There So Much Bird $#!7 Right Here?

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If you haven't seen this yet it's a video of some folks that were hired by the city of Barcelona to help remove pigeons from the city and thus reduce the flying rat's fecal impact on buildings and landmarks. And this is how they do it: with some sort of magic net-gun, possibly similar to this thing. Whatever it is, one thing's for certain: Spiderman seriously blew his chance to make a little extra pocket-money. Didn't you? DIDN'T YOU, PETER PARKER?! *SCREEEECH!* Haha, is, uh, is this thing on?

Hit it for a very short video of the other other grayish-white meat.

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Thanks to John, georgio, Ali and jediGK, who catch pigeons the old fashioned way: by pulling the string that's tied to a stick that's holding up a box with a little birdseed under it once there's a pigeon pecking at it. Classic.

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