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The saga of red-tailed hawk Pale Male on Fifth Avenue continue! Lincoln Karim, one of Pale Male's most passionate advocates, witnessed a construction worker on the roof of 1040 Fifth Avenue spitting and throwing rocks at Pale Male. Karim detailed the incident on his website, PaleMale.com, and wrote:
A most despicable display of human behavior on 1040 Fifth Avenue (the Jackie O Building).Karim told the Post, "I usually look for the red-tailed hawk [Pale Male] in this area and when I looked up the building, these two construction workers were very close to the bird. Next thing I see, they are throwing rocks at the bird. This is a federally protected bird and this person should be arrested."At 2:48:50PM I saw two men appear at the top of the water tower and look down at Palemale. I photographed them but never expected them to molest him.
2:49:02PM - The two men are noticed by Palemale. The man on the right disappears but remains close by. The remaining man spits on Palemale.
Not satisfied with spitting on Palemale the man drops an object on the innocent animal. arrow shows the object falling toward Palemale.
The man smiles as he makes his first hit. The man drops another object toward our hawk.
The man is delighted with his second hit. Palemale looses his balance as the object strikes his back.
Karim says that by the time the NYPD and Department of Environmental Conservation arrived, the "contractor claimed that they just fired the man and that he left the building without them knowing." The NYPD says they will be investigating. And it's unclear whether Pale Male was hurt and how extensive his injuries might be.
Back in 2004, animal lovers were outraged when 927 Fifth Avenue decided to remove Pale Male and his companion Lola's nest. After community outcry, 927 Fifth decided to build a new nest for the hawks. Pale Male and Lola have been seen on the Upper West Side as well.
Photographs from Lincoln Karim's PaleMale.com
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The expression on the guy's face in picture #2 pretty much says it all, i.e. he's a low-functioning idiot moron. Too bad Pale Male didn't dive bomb the guy and sink his talons into someplace soft, like his head.
i bet you they fire him not cause of the bird. cause he probably was illegal.
LOSE LOSE LOSE.
duuuuh me hurt animal!! Ow ow ow ow claws in my eyes!
The guy karim takes beautiful pics of the wildlife in Central park, too bad, he got some of this low life.
Poor innocent hawk. Assaulted by a loogie and a tiny pebble from 5 feet, how WILL he survive?
The ultimate justice would be that if this guy is indeed an illegal, that he's identified as a result of this action and deported. Via condidos, d1ckhead.
Lets all pick this idiot up and throw him off a roof to see if he hits the street below..
Is it just me, or does this guy look like Zach Braff's retarded little brother? not saying Zach Braff has a little brother, nonetheless if he is even retarded.
It takes a big man to pick on a little bird. Wait. No, it doesn't.
One thing, Rocknrope, you may want to check with your Puerto Rican or Dominican friends. The expression is "vaya con dios." Surely in such a latino-dense city, you can pick up a few phrases.
Someone identify this idiot so I can throw bricks at him, please!
Better yet, lets just hang him from a bridge and leave him there to rot.
Would love somebody to shoot that guy in the eye with a pellet gun...
Poor innocent hawk. Assaulted by a loogie and a tiny pebble from 5 feet, how WILL he survive?
Gothamist never fails to deliver on one metric: no matter what the subject matter, someone always has to be a complete dick.
don't you mean, where's Al Sharpton on this matter?
never fails, never again.
Is this the same DNA Contracting that also parks illegally and has run up a slew of unpaid tickets?
See - "DNA Contracting: A Congenital Defect?"
http://nyc.mybikelane.com/post/index/553
Apparently their employees also see fit to mimic their ignorant behavior by spitting and throwing rocks from the tops of buildings.
More on DNA Contracting, the employer of the spitting moron:
http://nyc.mybikelane.com/?plate=xc296s&state=NJ
True Mike B., but I still laughed.
Holy Shit . . . a DNA Contracting Van blocking the BIKE LINE???!
First the poor Hawk and now THIS???
Gothamist should declare war.
Why is everyone picking on this poor undocumented worker who contributes to America? I believe this is racism!!!
Remember, we're illegally occupying their land, and he has every right to hunt his homeland's wildlife. He seems like a kind-hearted, misunderstood yet sophisticated little man.
Let's all hope that W keeps the border wide open so DNA Contracting can hire more workers like him, Adrienne Shelley and Pale Male be damned.
I need more Spanish friends.
Seems like Palemale's got this look on his face like, "Dude. WTF?" Hope he wasn't hurt; too bad he didn't gouge that eejit's eyes out.
while i feel bad for the hawk..its kinda stupid to refer to him as "our hawk"
DNA Contracting: New Jersey plates on a commercial vehicle that has a Manhattan address on its door. Can you spell "INSURANCE FRAUD?"
http://nyc.mybikelane.com/post/index/553
All of you are losers....while i am against any kind of domestic/wild animal abuse, to wish death and deportation etc. for someone who threw a pellet at a hawk is just ludicrous. and also how do we know he's illegal?
dorks...
#[23] No one said Antonio Torrado was an illegal, #[7} said *IF* he were illegal. And where does it say that someone directly wishes death on him?
Lighten up (and give some thought to improving your reading comprehension skills)!
I can think of a few guys from the neighborhood who just love animals, and would be very happy to meet up with this asshole when they throw him into Rikers. Have a nice life, dickless.
i'm willing to bet $1,000 these two are illegals.
hey #24 open your eyes and read some of the statements prior to mine...
shooting him in the eye with a pellet gun, throwing him off a roof, throwing bricks at him. hmmm, that doesn't sound deadly?
" bet you they fire him not cause of the bird. cause he probably was illegal.
[2] Posted by: Armchair_warrior | July 14, 2007 12:22 PM "
Maybe you should improve your reading comprehension skills
All the comments prove one thing:
Wasps love animals but hate people.
big deal the guy threw a pebble at a hawk.
I bet you there is a 7 year old young white male somewhere doing a lot worse to some poor animal right now!
Help humans, then worry about animals.
hippocrites!
gay hippocrites!
Next the teenage boys, I find NYC construction most despicable.
the=to
Research has show that people who harm animals are statistically more likely to move on to harming people. Psych 101.
WTF is a "hippocrite?"
ha ha, some smart aleck tried to use a grown up word and got busted.
I bet he likes to pull cat's tails and put a firecracker up their butts.
another low life outed here on Gothamist.
For one thing I do wish him dead... see I'm not a "hippocrite".
wow, its hard to live in this world of the absurd. whats worse? some dufus stupidly messing with an animal to try and get its attention, obviously not trying to actually hurt the thing but still being an idiot, or the over the top anger it generates. straight up violent outbursts and racism, oh the humanity.
I wouldn't say that moron was "obviously not trying to hurt" Palemale. The jerk was using whatever he had immediately available on the roof (i.e., stones, spit).
What an idiot. He may or may not be an illegal. The construction industry is notorious for hiring illegals. And that could have been the reason why DNA Construction didn't want the guy around when the authorities showed up. Seems like a very plausible reason to me.
Don't say that illegals do the jobs that Americans won't do. If the construction industry paid (legal) living wages, there would be plenty of Americans applying for these jobs.
It's just a bird you fools.....
Go and help the homeless living in NYC instead of worrying about on fucking hawk on 5th ave.
Well, maybe there would be less homeless people if they were given those jobs going to illegal aliens.
Someone should throw rocks at him!!!
[36] Why is that people think one can think of only one thing at a time? I never get the argument you are trying to make... forget about animals, there are people starving! Well, isn't it possible to think of and care for more than one thing at a time? And tell me... have you helped the homeless lately?