While waiting on a railway platform in Narita, Japan, I spotted this poster. Wanted Dead or Alive: Fugitive Pigeon. My mind flooded with ideas as to what terrible crimes this bird must have committed to earn himself a spot on this post. What did it steal? Who did it murder? Whose car did it poop on? This pigeon was bad news. I searched high and low those 5 minutes on the platform to no avail. Sure there were pigeons, but no trace of the criminal mastermind. He had escaped. Will he reform? Or continue to travel down the dark path he set out on?

The actual translation is something along the lines of “watch out for pigeon droppings. Be careful where you put your garbage.” There is no pigeon criminal out there. Is there?