On her way to work today, Maya saw someone catching pigeons. This reminded us of this New York Times story about pigeon kidnapping that has apparently been going on for many years. The catcher she witnessed, though, didn't seem to have the same M.O. as those described in the article. It was one man, on foot, who caught two individual pigeons in a net, rather than men with a van catching many at once by luring them with seeds. She said after scooping them up he used some device in the net to cinch them at the bottom, very tightly. She described it as a very disturbing sight. This was on 207th Street and Sherman or so.