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Video: Become Surprisingly Transfixed By This Pigeon Video
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Ben Yakas
Published Aug 25, 2011
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Zen and the art of pigeon strolling: a reader sent us the below video of "one chill pigeon." Now usually, we tend to side with George Costanza when it comes to our fine feathered friends—they get out of our way, we look the other way on the statue defecation. But this zen pigeon has made us reassess. We don't suddenly have the urge to throw any punches or anything, but maybe pigeons can teach us something about this hectic, myopic world.
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