NYC halal food cart worker caught catching pigeon with bare hands: ‘Beyond disgusted’

New York Post ^ | January 4, 2025 | Deirdre Bardolf and Desheania Andrews

[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.

[left that other site]

Well, it may be halal but it sure ain’t kosher.