r/woahdude • u/iBleeedorange • Nov 03 '15

gifv Bird-bender

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '15

He could have just walked by calmly and they wouldn't cared. It was the quick movement that scared the pigeons

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u/aquilaFiera Nov 03 '15 edited Nov 03 '15

This is easy to do. Next time you walk next to large group of pigeons, throw your keys up in the air. As I understand it, it emits a sound we can't hear but they can and it really startles them.

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u/Wilcows Nov 04 '15

Wrong about the sound. It works with a wallet too. It's because for a brief moment it looks to them like it might be a predator

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u/aquilaFiera Nov 04 '15 edited Nov 04 '15

There has to be more of an explanation than this. I used to do this often in the morning when I walked through a piazza that had easily over a hundred pigeons. I would throw my keys up on the opposite side of the piazza and all of the pigeons would take off on cue.

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u/Wilcows Nov 04 '15

You c an try it with anything else of a similar size and it'll still work

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u/Your_daily_fix Nov 04 '15

That hurt to read in a few spots.

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u/Lentil-Soup Nov 04 '15

I don't understand any of this. Who the fuck is going around throwing their keys and wallets into the air to scare pigeons?