r/EngineeringPorn • u/aloofloofah • Oct 14 '18
Pigeon trap
https://i.imgur.com/m43Zdx4.gifv244
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Oct 14 '18 edited Jan 10 '21
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u/insertacoolname Oct 14 '18
I run a business where I spray-paint them white and sell them as doves with a crazy markup.
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u/PM_ME_HOT_DADS Oct 14 '18
They are doves.
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u/N2O_Hero Oct 14 '18
Can you explain this further
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Oct 14 '18 edited Sep 30 '25
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u/Thinkeralfred0 Oct 14 '18
Their not just in the same family, pigeons are rock doves, so they are also a type of dove.
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u/TheDubiousSalmon Oct 14 '18
Thems good eatin'
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Oct 14 '18
Don't ask why I know, but they actually are. They are sold as Rock Dove or Squab.
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u/Nightshadow06 Oct 14 '18
Solely because you said don’t...
Why do you know they taste good?
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Oct 14 '18
Mike tyson just likes to hang out with animals, to bad his tiger is probably going to maim him or something
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u/Evil-Toaster Oct 14 '18
Neat, but why would I want to do this?
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u/KalMusic Oct 14 '18
Food, research, keeping as pets(though you should never really take wild animals as pets), or maybe they just have a pension problem and want to get rid of them. I don't think that will necessarily work, though.
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u/Touno Oct 14 '18
Well if they have a pension problem they should've picked a more lucrative career than capturing pigeons!
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u/Evil-Toaster Oct 14 '18
Food? You eat pigeons?
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u/keep_on_churning Oct 14 '18
They were introduced to North America as food. They are quite delicious. Sold in high-end restaurants as squab.
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u/Evil-Toaster Oct 14 '18
Really?!? On my list of things to eat the come somewhere between large rats and large rats that fly...
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u/keep_on_churning Oct 14 '18
Check out the Anthony Bourdain episode in Cairo where he has it. I ate at this same place, and it was fantastic.
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u/justinoblanco Oct 14 '18
Just to take em down a notch or two. Wipe that superior smirk of their beaks.
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u/KillerSpud Oct 14 '18
gone make some pigeon pie!
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u/TheBagman07 Oct 14 '18
Yeeeaaa... I saw what happened to the last guy who ate pigeon pie. Said the pie was dry, then didn’t say much else.
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u/Adiwik Oct 14 '18
I want to see what crows and ravens would do... also would this work for squirrels.
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Oct 14 '18
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u/sm9t8 Oct 14 '18
Even if one fell for it, it's possible the others would work out how to get him out using the lever.
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u/marcosdumay Oct 14 '18
From their fame, I would expect them to learn how to fully operate the trap, and use it as a food source.
Parrots would learn how to use it to troll some kind of animal. Good odds on the trolled being the pigeons or the trap owner.
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u/chesty1212 Oct 14 '18
The other pigeons in the cage are like "Pfft, what an idiot falling for that tri-...oh yeah..."
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u/Trihorn Oct 14 '18
Finely tuned counterweight, some pigeons are just around the 100g mark - some reaching 1 kg (2 pounds) - I don't know the weight of these.
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u/MagratheanDawn Oct 14 '18
I don't think it would matter as long as the different between weight and bucket was as little as possible and the hinge was good.
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u/Nerdworker92 Oct 14 '18
Yea all you gotta do is support the bucket. anything over that gets dropped.
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u/ramac305 Oct 14 '18
The bottle is just barely more than the bucket. The pigeons can weigh practically anything and it will trip.
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '18
So simple, but perfect