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Queens: Mike Tyson Doesn't Want Your Stupid Pigeons
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Jen Carlson
Published Jan 7, 2011
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PETA's latest public enemy #1, Mike Tyson, will be on the small screen this year with his pigeon show finally airing on Animal Planet starting in March. The show was filmed in Brooklyn, and documents Tyson's passion of pigeon racing. According to the Daily News, he has said "this show is all about the pigeons. I didn't even go to school, because I was bullied. That's when I discovered the birds."
For the show he'll be teaming up with pigeon racers Vinnie Torre and Helder Rodriguez, also in Brooklyn. When a writer in Queens asked Tyson if she could send the pigeons from her building over to them, he told her, "We don't even want your pigeons! The pigeons we race are the crème de la crème of pigeons. These guys choose them carefully. They have the best bloodlines."
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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