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If there’s a complaint about Metro, chances are we’ve heard it. Escalators, elevators, delays, hot cars, hot stations, weekend maintenance, communications issues, sick passengers, emergency call boxes that don’t work, station managers that don’t work, maintenance workers who don’t work…you get the point. But we have to admit that The Examiner has uncovered a new one — pigeon turds which have coated a Metro bus garage in Virginia.

The state’s Department of Labor and Industry issued citations to the transit agency for a problem with pigeons — and their droppings — at Metro’s Four Mile Run bus garage in Arlington in April. The problem was supposed to be fixed by May 21, but the case remains open, records show.

“Pigeons were roosting in the ceiling on ledges, air ducts and any horizontal space available to them,” one of the citations reads.

And with the pigeons come their droppings, which contaminated the floor, a fare box receptacle and a 55-gallon drum, the citations said.

There are some health issues which can be casued by the droppings — hey, just ask the Kings of Leon — though the pigeon shit can be reused as fertilizer, in leather dyeing, and as an essential ingredient in gunpowder during the 16th century. (Metro told the Examiner it was still working to try and get rid of the pigeons, but with little luck.)

Hey, on the bright side, at least it wasn’t human excrement. I mean, again.