Pigeons Falling From The Sky

One day when the Tech Team was busy working over on Warren Street, just across from the Maguire Correctional Facility, a strange and awful thing happened. A loud thud hit one of the windows in the office where V, Winston, Winnie, Mike and I were sitting. I opened the blinds and it was a pigeon who was wobbling around and looked pretty disoriented. How could he not be? After all he had just flown into a window.

But why did he hit the window?

Sometimes birds do this because they don't see the window. But in this case the blinds were closed.

Something strange was happening.

A few minutes later a different bird could be seen wobbling around from another window. Shortly after, it collapsed. This was getting weird.

A bunch of us went to lunch a little while later and more pigeons could be seen doing unusual things. One of the strangest sights was a homeless man following a meandering pigeon in the middle of the street and behind the man was a bus, waiting patiently to pass.

The next day we got the local Redwood City newspaper to see if we could find out what may have happened to all of those poor pigeons. Well it turns out they were poisoned. Sequoia station had a "pigeon problem", so they fed them poisoned corn and the results were pigeons dropping from the sky.

I always thought a large fake owl on the rooftop and spikes over the ledges would do the trick...

Ahhh Redwood City. There's no place quite like it.