Professional "Pigeon Spookers" Scare Pigeons for the Perfect Tourist Photos
Screenshot from YouTube video
If you're really strapped for cash, we've got the photography job for you: professional pigeon scarer.
There's a small ancient city in northern Thailand, Chiang Mai, where locals hang out near the perfect Instagram spot right next to the Tha Pae Gate and wait for tourists. Then, for a small fee, they scare pigeons at just the right moment to get them to scatter in front of the tourist for the perfect shot.
Watch the pigeon spookers in action below.
And here are some of the pigeons in action.
Each pigeon spooker charges around $0.65 per scare. And they can get pretty creative about the way they scare the pigeons.
You can see one man throw his hat at the birds, while others stomp their feet and wave their arms wildly.
One of the professional pigeon spookers, interviewed by the Viral Press, said she made around $11.50 per day scaring pigeons, which is a few dollars more than the minimum wage of $9 a day.
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