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Chiang Mai Pigeons Don’t Give a Flying F**k About “No Feeding” Signs

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In an impressive display of mass civil disobedience, thousands of pigeons continue to occupy Chiang Mai’s historic Thaphae Gate area demanding the right to be fed. Ignoring the many warning signs reading “Don’t feed the animals” in 3 languages (Chinese, English, and Thai), the flying rodents keep harassing helpless tourists to demand more food.

tha-phae-gate-pigeonsThe tourists, consisting mostly of mainland Chinese, have little choice but to purchase contraband edibles from the local bird food mafia to keep the pigeon hordes from breaking out into a full scale riot.

Not fearing any threats of arrest or punishment, the all-powerful bird food mafia continue to exercise supreme authority in the vicinity of Thaphae Gate square. Their plan to transform a thousand square meters of bird shit covered pavement into the biggest tourist attraction in Southeast Asia has thus far been a raging success, and they have no plans to give up their golden goose.

Although China is home to the fantastic dragon and phoenix, its citizens have never before witnessed the sheer beauty of the dull-gray flying crap machines native to this region. Who can blame them for dedicating an afternoon of their hard-earned holiday in Thailand to experience such amazing creatures up close and in the flesh?

chiang-mai-pigeonsThe pigeon protest hasn’t been without casualties, however. Not being particularly agile on the wing, the fearless fowls often find themselves on the wrong side of a red truck’s grill or tuk-tuk’s tire. Still, undeterred by the splattered corpses of their fallen brethren littering the surrounding streets, the Thaphae Gate pigeons carry on their demands for equal rights and full stomachs.

Even a young boy trying to kick them like a soccer ball won’t dissuade the filthy feathered demonstrators from landing on the outstretched hands of human sympathizers, where morsels of food are exchanged for bacteria in a powerful display of cross-species harmony and sharing.

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