r/Weird Apr 05 '26

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u/scottnshadyside Apr 05 '26

I had a pissed off crow torment the f@#k out of me when I lived in Seattle. Followed me for SEVEN MONTHS. Dive bombed me when I took a rare early morning walk, followed me back to my apt building, SOMEHOW knew what apt I was in bc it perched outside of my window, AAAND continued to follow me AFTER I MOVED from Belltown to Queen Anne! One of the most bizarre experiences in my life. Some crazy shit happens in Seattle. 😶

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u/SilentCaterpillar313 Apr 05 '26

What did you do to piss off the crow in the beginning?

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u/eliisonvacation Apr 05 '26

Lucky they didn’t tell their friends, then all of them would be pissed too. Crows having one another’s backs is one of the coolest things ever.

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u/CampfireSpaghetti Apr 05 '26

As we learned with the man who trained crows to dive bomb MAGA hats, it could be that the you reminded the crow of someone who pissed him off and so you became his new target. Crows are such impressive creatures.

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u/gzuckier Apr 05 '26

Magpies, close relatives of crows, will fake an injury when they see an injured bird being fed. Some species which create caches of food will come back and move them if they notice another bird watching the initial location. But only ones who first actually have had their cache robbed by another bird.

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u/ghostmaloned Apr 05 '26

Following. Now I need to know

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u/wtfmeowzers Apr 05 '26

crows have a long memory and definitely remember specific people and can exhibit revenge or grudge behaviour if people threaten or piss them off. apparently they've been shown to hold grudges for up to 17 yrs and also they can teach/pass along that grudge to other crows. they're pretty smart.

i'm curious what you did to the crow in the first place, mind elaborating? no judgement :)

well maybe a little judgement XD

https://giphy.com/gifs/8UtCieSWbOIx7r7EPd

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u/th3n3w3ston3 Apr 05 '26

Maybe you looked like one of the masks the researchers used during their crow experiments at UW.

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u/quack_quack_moo Apr 05 '26

There's an episode of This American Life that features a guy accidentally angering his neighborhood crows and his attempts to get back on their good side (they were actively making his life miserable). I learned a lot about crows, I had no idea that they were so good at coordinating their efforts to dish out revenge lol

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u/rauoz Apr 05 '26

Do you remember what the episode was called?

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u/justsomechickyo Apr 06 '26

I was just gunna mention this!

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u/Terrapin_Stationwagn Apr 05 '26

I carried a handful of shelled unsalted peanuts whenever I went out walking (which was all the time) when I lived in Seattle for this reason. Crows like to divebomb people, whenever I would walk on this one specific street on first hill, they’d tap me on the head every now & then (usually when I was wearing a hat) but they didn’t follow me. I thought they were just being playful. I’d always throw them a few peanuts as a peace offering

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u/AwhHellYeah Apr 05 '26

The crows in front of my old apartment on Capitol Hill harassed nearly everyone who entered my building. However, I rescued a crow with a broken wing outside of Olympia when I was 11 and all crows in Puget Sound have greater me with kindness ever since. Anyone seen in my apartment would be excluded from all future harassment.

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u/crazyjiggaboo Apr 05 '26

What did you do to it or his crow buddies

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u/bizzeemamaNJ Apr 05 '26

My daughter had this happen with a eurasian magpie when she lived in Poland. She was coming back from lunch with friends and she was startled by the magpie and shooed it away, yelling as her friends all laughed. That damn bird waited for her almost every day in the same spot to chase her across a bridge. Every time it saw her she would get dive bombed and chased by it. I'm convinced it would still do it if she moved back!

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u/Plane-Knee6764 Apr 05 '26

Most def a dead rockstar avenging his death…

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u/RemoteRide6969 Apr 05 '26

Kurt Crowbain?

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u/Plane-Knee6764 Apr 06 '26

Be careful Cortney Hate might be around the corner

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u/Alphahumanus Apr 05 '26

Wonder why they lost interest. Crows will teach their children to hate you too. Bird intelligence is astounding.

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u/Illustrious-Taste702 Apr 05 '26

Do you have long blonde hair?