The law governing Interference with homing pigeons states that...
(1) A person who—
(a) without lawful authority, kills, injures or takes any homing pigeon; or
(b) enters upon any land for the purpose of killing, injuring or taking any homing pigeon without lawful authority, is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $250.
However, those with bloodlust need not put their slingshot down just yet...there is a defence...
Subsection (3) It is a defence to a charge of killing, injuring or taking a homing pigeon contrary to subsection (1) to prove that the defendant was the owner or occupier of improved or cultivated land, or a person acting under the instructions of any such owner or occupier, and killed, injured or took the pigeon while it was actually upon that land or any building on that land.
This pitiable pigeon was going for a relaxing Sunday afternoon flight in the country when he stopped for a rest and took some happy snaps to send to his Grandmother and was lawfully killed (pursuant to the available defence under subsection 3).
The law needs to be changed now! Write to your local MP! Use a carrier pigeon to send the letter perhaps...
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