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Pigeons deliver drugs to prisoners via tiny backpacks
The British and the Germans (and I think Americans) all used pigeons for messaging during World War 2, but oh, those were the days…when pigeons had integrity. A sense of ethics. Since then, their reputation has really taken a nosedive; they have been uselessly pooping on the streets of our metropolises for decades, and now, they’re soaring to new lows.Apparently a very smart prisoner (the Einstein of drug smugglers?) living in a Brazilian jail has been breeding pigeons to deliver drugs and cell phones to inmates using tiny backpacks. How does it work? The pigeons are released and later, they return to their clandestine roosts in this man’s cell with their mini-Jansports filled with contraband prisoners’ dream about.
How did Einstein get busted? The prison guards noticed that pigeons around the prison were having trouble flying, allegedly due to the weight of their cargo (not to drug use).
PS. on a mostly unrelated note, if I could title this post, it would be “jail birds (no really!)”
PPS. did you catch my bird puns in the first paragraph?
PPPS. did I mention pigeon backpacks?