Pigeons don’t often inspire demonstrations of concern and care from city dwellers, many of whom tend to revile the ubiquitous scavengers as “rats with wings.” But one of the birds became the object of much attention – and the star of a drone video – when a Peruvian neighborhood went to work to save the pigeon after it had gotten itself into a seemingly hopeless fix.
The video uploaded to the r/drones subreddit by user HumansBeingBros shows police and members of a Barranca, Peru, neighborhood banding together – and deploying a drone – to save a pigeon hanging upside down from what looks to be a telephone line spanning a street. The bird had gotten its leg seriously tangled in one of several lengths of twine wrapped around various parts of the finger-width cable.
After presumably struggling in vain to free itself, the creature quickly appears too tired to do much more than occasionally flap its wings while hanging, head-down, as sympathetic…
