The day a service call turned into a pigeon rescue mission

Got called out for a door fault at a 1970s apartment block, only to find the entire hoistway packed with nesting material and a very angry bird. The super just shrugged and said, 'It's been making that grinding noise for a month.' Anyone ever had to deal with a full-on animal eviction before a repair?

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jake_walker2mo agoMost Upvoted

That super shrugging it off is the real problem, isn't it? A month of grinding noise means a month of ignoring a basic safety issue. @the_jana has a point about cleanup being a pain, but letting an animal live in a hoistway is just asking for a real disaster. The repair should always wait for a proper, humane eviction first. How is that not the standard call?

the_jana2mo ago

Oh man, that sounds like a real mess. Did you end up having to call animal control or figure it out yourselves? I had a squirrel get into a junction box once and the cleanup took longer than the actual fix.

adam_anderson617d ago

Wow, a whole month?! That's insane! I can't believe nobody bothered to check on that noise sooner. That grinding must have been so loud it was probably rattling the whole building. And finding a whole hoistway packed with pigeon stuff means that bird had basically moved in and was paying rent in feathers and anger.