To throw water over a pigeon I've just spray painted?

[threeineachlobe]

Stay with me.

Just started to spray paint a fence panel, must have startled poor pidge behind fence as it flapped up maniacally. I had a bit of a scream...whilst holding spray trigger.

Pidge is now half 'oak brown', sitting in tree. Can't quite tell if he's ok, not giving much away with facial expression.

Have googled "accidentally painted a pigeon" with disappointingly unresourceful results.

So, should i just chuck water at it & hope it comes off?? Turps would seem a little extreme.

I am roaring at this thread. Most especially Hairy's typos Or in Hairy's words, [grun]

I like mobile hairylemon! [grun]

Watch out he might come back with his mates for a revenge attack-a squadron of dive bombing pigeons!

I'm still PMSL at "Paul, is that you?"

I've found - better run and hide OP!

People on the train are looking at me like this because I am snorting [grun]

"yes, some fucker spray painted me"

Dammit - that was meant to be "I've found Peter". Still the same link though
[grun]

Is anybody else thinking about the Friends episode when Ross gets a spray tan? "I'm an EIGHT!" Do you think you'd be able to catch him and get him to a vet?

This is hilarious I would be feeling so guilty if I had done it.

How you feeling?

Don't feel too bad if it dies you'll have a nice stuffed pigeon stuck to the tree with paint to look at.

And I'm guessing the paint is somewhat preserving so he'll be there for aaagggeeessssss

That friends episode was brilliant

Future generations will dig him up and marvel in horror at how people in the early 21c thought spray painting birds to use as garden ornaments was acceptable.

I think Paul's just weighing up his options:

a) return to the mocking taunts of his pidgey pals

b) bugger off to Benidorm to even out the 'tan'

Sorry, but [grun]

Seriously, he should be ok. Don't worry too much pidgies have a habit of surviving most things. Now put it to the back of you mind!

(I love my pidgies that come for brekkie every morning, I call them my airbuses!)

Loving [grun]

This thread

Honestly though, it should be alright.

Im getting rid of that phone, it tried to autocorrect [h mm] into [ham] [grun]

OP is the pidge still there? I wonder if when the paint dries it will freeze it into position (or [sod] as my phone would probably autocorrect [ham])

at Hairy [grun]

I am howling at this thread.

oh dear....

seems a little pointless to google spraypainted pigeons unless you managed to catch it....

i have wacky races "catch the pigeon" running through my head...

as in this song?!!

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I keep thinking about the woodpecker in Bagpuss, Professor Yaffle....

thats the one rather

What are those people called who make themselves up so one side of their face and body looks female, and the other male?

That's what you have cursed the pigeon comminity with, Op. Third rate entertainment. Oh look there's Paul the pigeon, oh! But wait! It's Paula the gigantic sparrow!

There will be no stopping them now. Music hall, stand up, carry on films, give it a couple of decades and we'll have pigeon mime.

Pigeon miming flying
Pigeon miming pecking
Pigeon miming getting blasted upside the head with ronseal....