A certain faction of Portland Twitter's been coalescing today around the plight of a pigeon apparently imprisoned in a vacant downtown building.
After protest group Portland's Resistance tweeted a picture of the bird's precarious circumstance—and insinuated breaking windows might be in order—an outpouring of support ushered forth.
Apparently, this bird has been trapped at 731 sw Morrison in portland for over a week. The company has known for a week and they will not show up and let him out. pic.twitter.com/0Lp8uRMN26
— PDX Resistance ✊ (@Pdx_resistance) January 9, 2018
To be clear we have never once advocated for the breaking of windows. But......
— PDX Resistance ✊ (@Pdx_resistance) January 9, 2018
free the birb
— This is not a crowtograph! (@empathicwindow) January 9, 2018
@CRA_Brokers Hello this is your building how about you send an agent over there to release the birds. Maybe if @ASPCA gets involved for animal cruelty you might listen
— Chico_Apache I'm a sister here to stand up (@chico_apache) January 9, 2018
I'm bout to break this mf window if my boy don't get justice immediately https://t.co/XqB6DWXNYP
— michael (@forslayage) January 9, 2018
#FreeTheBird #BreakTheWindow https://t.co/UvkiGCCPqt
— Gregory McKelvey (@GregoryMcKelvey) January 9, 2018
DON'T #BREAKTHEWINDOW. According to a woman named Ashley at the building's brokerage firm, Commercial Realty Advisors NW, the bird has been freed.
"Our understanding is the property management company safely removed the bird about 2 hours ago," Ashley tells the Mercury. "Apparently there was an exterior hole to the building. That’s been sealed."
CRA began getting calls about birds in the vacant space last week, Ashley said. It contacted the Audubon Society of Portland, but Audubon doesn't retrieve pigeons. The firm eventually found someone to to the deed, though, and Ashley tells the Mercury that the bird is "alive and well."
