Pigeon drop is the name of a confidence trick in which a mark or "pigeon" is convinced to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money, or more valuable object. In reality the scammers make off with the money and the mark is left with nothing. A confidence trick, confidence game, also known as a con, scam, grift or flim flam, is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons (known as the mark) usually with the goal of financial or other gain. ... The victim of a confidence game or magic trick is often called the mark, or the vic. ...
In popular culture
An elaborate version of the pigeon drop can be seen in the movie The Sting. Another version can be seen in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, in which a criminal fools two tourists into cashing fake chips at a casino after having them leave a deposit with him. When they return, he is gone. The Sting was an Oscar winning caper film from 1973 based in the 1930s and centered around a convoluted plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). ... CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular Alliance Atlantis/CBS police procedural television series, running since October 2000, about a team of forensic scientists. ...
The Pigeon Drop is described in Neil Gaiman's American Gods by Mr. Wednesday as the Fiddle Game. American Gods is a novel by Neil Gaiman. ...
It can also be seen on an episode of Showtime's Bullshit.
Pigeondrop is the name of a confidence trick in which a mark or "pigeon" is convinced to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money, or more valuable object.
An elaborate version of the pigeondrop can be seen in the movie The Sting.
The PigeonDrop is described in Neil Gaiman's American Gods by Mr.
All pigeons have soft swellings (ceres) at the base of the nostrils, feed their young with "pigeon's milk" regurgitated from the crops of the parents, and have specialized bills through which they can suck up water steadily, unlike other birds.
The Australasian region has two thirds of the 289 species of pigeons, of which the fruit pigeons are the most colorful and the gouras, or crowned pigeons, the largest (to 33 in./84 cm).
Pigeons are classified in the phylum Chordata Chordata (kôrdā`tə,–dä`–), phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development.
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