That is not a typo in the headline.

Some balloonhead just paid $1.9 MILLION for this dumb little pigeon.

So OK, I get it, you can take the thing away from its home with a bunch of other dumb pigeons and it will fly home faster than the rest of them. Wow. Sure. Neat.

But ONE POINT NINE MILLION DOLLARS?? For a PIGEON???

People have really weird hobbies, man.