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I love that story, and the one where during the summer MIT students would wear a black and white striped shirt, blow a whistle and then throw bird seed out on t
by ChuckMcM 8y ago
I love that story, and the one where during the summer MIT students would wear a black and white striped shirt, blow a whistle and then throw bird seed out on the field. Eventually training the local pigeon population to respond to this, the early scrimmages were apparently mobbed by pigeons.
- jonshariat 8y agoPlease let there be a video of this too. Thats hilarious.
- craftyguy 8y agoAccording to snopes, it's a legend that hasn't been confirmed. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/field-of-seeds/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/field-of-seeds/
- andrewflnr 8y agoI want to believe! ...The internet being what it is, we ought to be able to find some eyewitnesses.
- enriquto 8y agoThe pigeons can be trained again!
- stouset 8y agoThat is incredible.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoThis seems like something that someone like Mythbusters ought to be able to try and recreate. (Or if I were to not date myself quite so precisely, maybe someone like Mark Rober, or the King of Random guy.)