The real story behind this NYer toting a live pigeon in a Chanel bag: ‘Didn’t want to get robbed!’

Daphne Ciccarelle knows just how to fowl-up any subway mugger’s day. 

And the unflappable Gothamite isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty while doing it. 

In fact, she used her bare mitts to grab a feathery, albeit filthy, friend for a trip on the uptown C express train Wednesday — and let her little anti-theft repellant ride in style. 

“I picked up a 100%, real live pigeon, put it in a Chanel shopping bag and took it with me up to 86th Street,” Ciccarelle, 24, a marketing manager living in Chelsea, told The Post. 

“I didn’t want to get robbed,” she continued with a laugh. “And if I did get robbed I just planned to yell, ‘It’s a pigeon! It’s a pigeon! Please believe me!’ ”

Ciccarelle shared the viral visuals of her wild commute to an online audience of over 4.8 million cooing TikTok viewers, who deemed her designer dupe “iconic.”