The drug problem in Vancouver is so extreme that pigeons are making nests out of needles

Normally, those dirty, flying rat-things that we call “pigeons” make their nests out of nice things like grass, and twigs, and wool, and, I dunno, Tech Decks – whatever they can find, basically.

And because they construct their homes out of stuff they’ve salvaged, in Vancouver they’ve been making them out of hypodermic needles.

The reason for this is that Vancouver’s drug problem has got a tad out of hand. The police reported that they’d found a sink in a ‘single room occupancy’ – which is basically a cheapo hotel room in a poor neighborhood – and a resourceful sky-scrot had made a nest in it. A spiky, bum-unfriendly nest, constructed entirely out of used drug paraphernalia.

Here’s the offending abode: