[TN-Bird] Drug-smuggling birds

From: "David Aborn" <David-Aborn@xxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'heidi messerly'" <birdlover1980@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:59:20 -0500
From this week's Time Magazine.
David Aborn

Chattanooga, TN

Meet Colombia's newest drug mules: the carrier pigeons.  

Police officers caught a bird trying to fly into a jail in the northeastern
city of Bucaramanga. What gave the bird away? A bag containing 40g of
marijuana and 5g of cocaine paste strapped to its back.

Police believe the package's weight prevented the bird from flying over the
prison's walls.

Pigeons trained to smuggle are not unfamiliar at this jail. Police say
they've previously found birds carrying cell phone Sim cards, although this
was their first find of an illegal contraband.

This is the second Colombian bird detained for ties to the drug trade. Last
September, police in Barranquilla confiscated a parrot trained as a lookout
for drug dealers, who would yell "run" as police approached.

 



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