Posted on 01/08/2025 10:54:38 PM PST by Morgana
That’s fowl.
A Queens food truck worker captured a pigeon using a plastic bag and ominously brought it back to his cart, according to shocking viral footage of the incident.
A commuter waiting for a bus spotted the worker feeding the birds next to the MS Halal truck near the Rego Center Mall on Queens Boulevard on Dec. 29.
Oriana Biersack said she saw the man look around to see if anyone was watching and then tried unsuccessfully to grab one of the birds from a flock, at which point she started filming with her phone.
The man tried again and managed to grab one, shoving it in a plastic bag and returning to the food truck, the footage shows.
“Omg I can’t believe what I just saw!” Biersack wrote in a social media post. “I am beyond disgusted.”
She told The Post, “After that, I saw him grab water and he was rinsing his hand and swishing water in his mouth … He was sticking his fingers into his mouth and scrubbing his teeth with his fingers.
“I was shocked at what I was seeing but I didn’t record the rest,” added Biersack, who said she reported the incident to the city Department of Health.
The video received over 155,000 likes and 16,000 comments on different social media pages including the New Yorkers and Bukharian Community Instagram pages.
“I will never eat there again and after this,” one person commented.
“He just ruined it for food carts,” said another.
Residents were repulsed.
“It’s disgusting. After seeing that, I don’t trust this or any other ones,” said Jon C., a 39-year-old home health aid from Rego Park, gesturing to the different food carts lining the street.
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they’re eating the pigeons
Tastes like chicken;-)
Squab. Delicious if prepared properly.
I saw this.
Rock pidgeons were bred to trust humans and now they are easy prey to guys like this.
Haven’t you guys ever had squab?
Squab is simply roasted young pigeons. I’ve never heard of grabbing pigeons for squab off the street, though.
Hemingway did this when he was dirt poor, in Paris. He’d stick dead pigeons into the baby’s stroller.
street squab
With the price of chicken so high, how else is a resourceful food vendor going to come up tomorrow’s menu special??
You can’t pass up good squab. It tastes like dark meat chickern.
Last month, a new halal restaurant opened here, on the University of Kentucky campus. Since college campuses are known to have pigeons and squirrels, now I’m wondering if those animals are on the menu.
So what are these people up set about the fact that he caught a pigeon.
Or he caught it with his bare hands.
I can’t count how many pigeons I killed in pest control.
They are very good to eat
If he had a food cart, caught a filthy bird with his bare hands, i.e., no gloves, and continued to prepare food. That would be disgusting.
“Our food is fresh and locally sourced...”
Pigeons are invasive species.
They can be killed anytime, by any means.
And, BTW, they are really tasty!
“she reported the incident to the city Department of Health. “
They immediately issued him a permit to sell chicken.
I shoot & eat barn pigeons, once in a while, not so sure I’d be wanting those nasty city birds.
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