Racing pigeon that flew to Australia may be killed amid quarantine fears

nypost ^ | 01/14/2021 | Yaron Steinbuch

[ChicagoConservative27]

A racing pigeon from Alabama has survived an 8,000-mile odyssey to Australia, where it was named Joe after the president-elect – but authorities plan to kill the bird because it’s a quarantine risk, according to a report.

Melbourne resident Kevin Celli-Bird said he discovered the exhausted bird in his backyard on Dec. 26 after it had disappeared from a race in Oregon on Oct. 29, The Associated Press reported.

[ChicagoConservative27]

OMFG, a pigeon from AL somehow flies to Australia and they name it after Diapers Biden but have to kill it over covid rules? WTF????

[a fool in paradise]

The bird was observed sniffing a woman’s hair.

[Striperman]

No good deed goes unpunished

[cgbg]

The war on pigeons has begun.

Right wing extremists can use them for secret communications, ya know!

[AAABEST]

...where it was named Joe after the president-elect...

Shoot the fkr - with great prejudice.

[billorites]

[yldstrk]

That is bullshit

[rightwingintelligentsia]

If they can do this to a pigeon, they can do it to someone who enters Costco without a mask.

Just sayin’.

[lee martell]

I thought the purpose of quarantining WAS to render someone (something) now safe after this isolation.
Why kill it?

[BiglyCommentary]

Trump should give it the Presidental Medal of Freedom.

[Hot Tabasco]

Just claim that the finder has quarantined it for the required 14 days.........

[MercyFlush]

The Aussie Marxists are insane. One of my friends lives a good 40 miles from the next person and got cited for not wearing a mask when he was outside. The police had to drive six miles down his private road to discover that he wasn’t wearing a mask where he lives alone.

I’m not at all surprised these same idiots would kill a bird. They’ve already killed freedom.

[NEMDF]

I guess they’re going to have to hatch a plan to test every bird that comes into the country.

Good luck with that. We can’t even keep track of the humans that come into our country.

[ClearCase_guy]

If the internet gets taken down, my plan had been to use Carrier Pigeon.

Now I’m going to have to switch to Plan B.

[NEMDF]

Or —— it is an illegal alien.

[nuconvert]

Ridiculous. They don’t have to destroy it. They should be used to the concept of quarantine by now

[Bob434]

Because its a racist,(raced to Australia).

[Hot Tabasco]

It was more than a covid issue, it's more about any bird viruses that it could transmit to native australian birds.....

[Flick Lives]

If birds are carriers of Covid, wouldn’t they have to start the mass execution of all wild birds? This is insane.

[Pajamajan]

Sad, but in some way, it represents perfectly, the ugly force of destruction, that is the Democrat party.