An alleged Paloma pirate is filled with feathers in the concrete jungle.
A former owner of the Brooklyn pet store is being criticized after the accusations resurfaced that he kidnaps the pigeons of public parks and illegally sells hunters to be used live shooting targets, the post has harmed Lavon the wroims of the brother.
Michael Scott, co -owner of Broadway Pigeon & Pet Supplies in Bushwick, has been accused of Robing pigeons for decades, according to the activist of animal rights Tina Piña, who states that his own flock of Brooklyn pigeons was looted.
“My beloved flock was ate a week ago, and I know what happens, but when it happens to you, it is different,” said Piña, whose flock stands regularly in María Hernández Park in Bushwick and saturated 60 people.
Around 15 to 20 or its birds with United, which has attended for a decade, were captured by a man in the park in the early hours of April 1, a witness Toold Piña, who passes through “Paloma Mother” on Instagram. According to the reports, the same individual scored more pigeons in the following days, and Piña affirms that Scott is behind the bird brain scheme.
The capture of public property pigeons is illegal and the abuse of animals is considered, according to the New York 311 portal.
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“Dog trainers call me from different states, they want to come to take birds,” he said that he has also sold white pigeons by funerals and weddings of bird generations that inherited from his grandfather in 1971.
“Some people come [buy birds] To make voodoo sacrifices, I’m sure, “he added.
“I do not ask them what they do with them, but they kill and train the dogs with them … if I have my own pigs and they are mine and nobody else and breed them, I am allowed to do what I want.”
The Scott brothers were previously criticized in July 2008 after a lawyer admitted that the store sold birds to a pigeon runner in charge of a dove tournament only by invitation in Pennsylvania, where such competitions called shootings.
“The human society of the United States believes that some of the pigeons that end up as live objectives in the circuit of live pigeons in Pennsylvania come from the Broadway Pigeons corridors in New York City,” said a representative of the organization without FOFIT.
He thought Piña said that the paper trail for illegal sales of pigeons outside the state is difficult to specify, it is not surprising that his flock has been looted just before the competition season.
“It’s the time … the pigeons collect just before the weekend of filming, and then the pigeons have gone,” said Piña.
In a 2018 report that expresses its support for a Pennsylvania law that would make pigeons of pigeons illegal, the New York City Law Association concluded that many of the pigeons used for the practice of Penilvania’s practice are illegally trapped in New York.
More than two boxes of pigeon outbreaks took place in 2016, according to the report, in which thousands of pigeons were fired. Some of the birds “suffered a slow and painful death, veterinary attention were denied and, in some cases, their heads and bodies shattered by the hired children were torn to collect their bodies,” according to the report.
The “network” has been a phenomenon for decades in the city, says Piña, with 311 reports that date at least 2010.
Piña affirms that the networks have taken place in the city parks, including the father’s demonstration square in the West Village, Tompkins Square Park in East Village and Washington Square Park, and even in the corners of the streets, according to an Instagram video published by the Pigeons4Mile activist group, which claims to describe Michael Scott “or possible one of his friends” in the law “in the law.
But Joey called Fowl play in the accusation.
He said that the man in the video is not his brother or affiliated with Pigeons on Broadway, and the store is being framed by the lovers of the birds.
“It’s not him, it’s a Spanish boy with black beard [in the video]”Joey said.
“The boys who do it have caught the leg by the police,” he said. “But the police make them free the birds, that’s all. They do nothing.”
John Di Leonardo, Executive Director of the Animal Rights Group, Humane Long Island, told The Post that the issue of capture and the pigeon network is very late for an execution review.
“Authorities need to investigate this and [Michael Scott] It must be arrested for violation of state and local laws, “Di Leonardo said to the post.” The laws are as good as their application, and we need the New York police to take animal cruelty and the judgment of this type seriously. They are legs. “
“The city knows that the Unit of Animal Cruelty of New York City knows who is doing it,” added Piña. “They have registration numbers, they have reports: they have decided that this is something they don’t want to deal with.”
Since then, Piña has decided that he will take the problem to social networks and in manifestations and protests on the ground all summer, “until this stops.”
“It feels like a lost cause because propaganda against pigeons is very strong,” he said.
“They are incredible creatures, and they give life to the city … New Yorkers do not have rivers, streams and forests to walk among the pigeons that bring us back to nature.”
