A woman in Munich kept emergency services on tenterhooks for hours because of an injured pigeon. According to the federal police, after she saw the animal fly into the tunnel of the S-Bahn main line on Friday afternoon, she initially tried to get onto the track herself – but was stopped by emergency services. “As the day progressed, the animal rights activist kept Deutsche Bahn, the federal police and the Munich fire department busy for several hours, sometimes having a disruptive effect on the respective departments,” it said.
That evening she was even sent off at the main train station and was also made aware of the misuse of emergency calls.
According to the information, the woman appeared again early on Saturday morning to employees of the railway and the federal police and alerted the professional fire department again. Ultimately, railway employees took the injured animal out of the tunnel early in the morning, when S-Bahn traffic was closed, and handed the pigeon over to the woman.
They announced that they wanted to file charges for violating the Animal Welfare Act because those involved had prevented an earlier rescue.
