It’s Like Throwing a Boomerang Away

WINNIPEG, Canada —  Tatina Galatas has found to her dismay that it isn’t easy to tell homing pigeons to get lost.

Galatas was trying to comply with a rarely enforced Winnipeg bylaw that regulates where pigeons may be kept and the size of flocks when she took 30 of her birds to Gimli in Manitoba province in June and released them.

“Every one of them came back,” her lawyer said outside court after her case was remanded until Nov. 3.

“Now I’ve got troubles,” said Galatas, who added she had more success when she took 25 birds to Brandon, Manitoba, and released them. Brandon is about twice as far from her home as Gimli.