Pesky pigeon won’t get out of home — so woman calls 911. See ‘hilarious game of chase’
When an Arizona woman called 911 with a “huge” problem, the urgency in her voice was apparent.
“I’ve got a huge pigeon in my house, and I can’t get to it,” the woman tells a dispatcher in a video shared to the Glendale Police Department’s Facebook page.
“A big pigeon in your house?” the dispatcher asks.
The woman replies “yes” and explains she can’t get the bird to leave.
“OK,” the dispatcher says. “We’ll send somebody out to see if they can help you out.”
“God bless you,” the woman replies.
Multiple officers responded to the Glendale home, and “what followed was a hilarious game of chase,” police wrote in a Feb. 26 Facebook post.
As the officers enter the home, the bird can be seen perched on a second-floor window sill, the video shows.
“You got everybody here,” the woman tells one of the officers as she hands them a bed sheet, body camera footage shows.
“Oh yeah,” the officer says. “You called us. We’re coming.”
The officer shakes a bed sheet at the pigeon over the second-floor balcony banister.
It flaps its wings for a second but remains unmoved, the video shows.
“Is this how you get the avian flu?” one officer jokes.
Another officer on the first floor gently nudges at the bird using a long cleaning tool, as the officer shakes the bed sheet from the second floor.
The bird flies away, but then it’s a wild goose chase back and forth throughout the home.
At one point, one officer places gloves on her hands and says she will try to catch the bird with her hands.
“We don’t need no stinkin’ blankets,” another officer says.
But as the officer approaches the bird, it again eludes them.
“This is the first time in 34 years (I’ve gotten) this kind of a call,” an officer says.
Then, the bird flies toward the home’s front door.
“Open the door!” an officer yells.
The door is slowly opened as an officer shakes a blanket, and, finally, the bird flies from the home.
“There we go!” an officer says. “Saving lives; that’s what we do.”
As the officers leave the home, the woman thanks and commends them.
“If you think we did a good job, call our boss,” an officer says.
“Oh my gosh. I will,” the woman says.
And, sure enough, she did later that day.
“I had an incident in my house this morning where I had a large pigeon, and I called the police … “ she says in her call. “I just wanted to let you know I was so relieved they were so kind and so helpful and so quick about it, and I just felt that you should know.”
Glendale is about a 10-mile driven northwest from Phoenix.
