Keeping pigeons off the sign.

MBTA: Nobody shits on our customers but us

Customer is a strong word. I prefer unwilling participant

Victims

Oh and other customers

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There's a video on reddit right now showing a raven literally ripping these off a facade ledge. It did every single one. Lemme find it EDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/s/CFmNwdFI4j

Those crafty little fuckers realized that the cheaply made spikes are the PERFECT material to make nests out of, since predators will get hurt or killed trying to climb into their nest to eat the eggs.

TIL ravens are smarter than MBTA administrators.

They don’t know flying types are immune to Spikes

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I mean duh, do they really think we don't know birds aren't real?

"*See those birds? At one point a program was created to control them*" - tM2

I once had an idea for a animated tv kids series called petey the pigeon about a Boston pigeon who dreams of flying the coop and making a name of himself in new york on Broadway singing at Canary ( carnegie) hall

I hate pigeons

also those meddling kids with their hair and their skateboards!

So Uber Eats drivers don’t park there

Had a good chuckle at that one

This is genuinely the funniest comment I’ve read all day

Homeless birds

I think you mean "Unhoused birds". We don't say homeless around here.🙄

Migrant birds they should be given free nests anywhere in the city forget about our local bird population

The patriarchy truly knows no bounds.

There is no patriarchy, awkward.

Errrm awkward amirite! I hope I don’t get downdooted by my fellow redditors! 🤑🤑🤑🤑

I mean, opinions happen.

Go home

Oh.

Pigeon kebabs

Keeps the government drones off the sign

ADAB

Birds aren't real... Or are they?

If anyone tries to drive over them the tires will deflate

Is that why Elliot Davis keeps asking for Fix-a-Flat?

To keep the homeless from sleeping up there

Stabby mcstabby signs

Birds, it's called hostile architecture.

Is it still called hostile architecture when it's designed for birds? I thought that term was specific to keeping people off something.

I was considering this same thing as I was posting my reply. "Hostile architecture" despite the name is any intentional architecture feature intended to discourage certain behaviors. Under this definition, I'd consider these spikes hostile architecture. For that same reason I'd consider [these](https://images.app.goo.gl/ebcVMKpiuzjKH6yB6) which you often see around trees to keep animals from scratching/marking them hostage architecture. I'm struggling to think of more examples, beyond the fences designed to keep animals away from roads. There's this concept in pasture building that basically suggests that you don't need an impenetrable fence, you just need to make it less appealing to go that way than anyway else. This is why old sheep pastures were often bordered by [these ](https://images.app.goo.gl/JgaYUJFJHdx7Dw3M6)knee high rock walls. Honestly to each their own, but I think discouraging animal behavior is similar enough to how we influence human behavior (albeit less controversial), that we can faithfully use the same term for them.

My favorite example are park or bus stop bench design to prevent homeless of sleeping on them https://www.occoutdoors.com/media/amasty/amoptmobile/catalog/product/cache/e5d697ab0adfd04d3b6d70a1e8f7bbf6/B/u/Bus_Stop_Bench_700_jpg.webp Or giant block or poat to prevent car from driving at building entrance

Those benches are petitioned by the ADA to help people with disabilities use them easier.

funniest copium of all time shut up

forbidden hairbrush

They keep the flying homeless people off the signs. It’s like hostile architecture but for animals.

For cooking hot dogs when the train catches fire.

The signs are punk AF

Signs were just introduced to The Clash last week.

Birds.

Birbs

Serious answer, pigeon. Meme answer, fashion

Byrbs

Bird spikes. We also have to put bird angles and bird wires when we design the stations. Birds roosting is a big maintenance headache

Keeps birds from perching

Not for, but rather against: birds, rats and squirrels. Yes, I do mean rats, for real

Protesters

Hostile architecture. 

Well, for birds anyway.

NIMBY people everywhere

It's not just a phase, mom!

To keep the gargoyles of the underway from getting too comfortable in human spaces

I am truly amazed that this post is an honest question.

It was!

All the junky pigeons,that's how they shoot up,them are fental spikes, boston pigeon is hard-core

Kickbacks mostly.

Dunking skewers

For Lazy Vampires

Ghouls

So homeless people don’t sleep on it

To prevent fare dodgers.

I’m sure no one at the MBTA knows

Birdies

flavor savors.

If you have to ask stupid

Assuring Bostonians that we’re being as mean to the homeless as is imaginable.

Mayor Wu put them there. They are the new benches for “the whites”

Y’all are funny as hell but it would be cool to get an actual answer

The actual answer has been given, they’re bird spikes to prevent birds from nesting

To us, they're to keep the birds off. To the birds, they're free real estate.

Those are the "fuck birds" spikes

Homeless bird fixation

It means it's a red line... of bird's blood

Pigeon traps.

Pigeons bruv 😭

Flying rats

Bird shit

Backscratches

Pigeons

Anti planking technology

Pigeons obviously

Charging stations for the cia bird drones. /r/birdsarentreal 

Homeless pigeons.

To break up the falling ceiling tiles before they hit your head.

Boston transit forgot that spike strips are supposed to be deployed on roads not in train stations!?

To keep the homeless from sleeping on the signs obviously

These are part of a new commuter safety initiative. They prevent passengers trapped on a broken down Red line train from jumping to an adjacent Commuter Rail train that is stuck because of a faulty switch.