Quote Originally Posted by Paperplane
Strange they considered it something for street kids seeing as over here afaik pigeon fancying was always taken very seriously. Hence, at least in part, my confusion.
Thanks, Paperplane!
They did take it very seriously, but among people who were not involved there was a vague disapproval, since there was a lot of shady activity connected to pigeon breeding (it's probably similar to what happens around pocker games), and because teenagers flunked school because of that.