Bird Men of Bosnia
By If anyone doubted the necessity of a War on (Some Species of Pigeons Who Smuggle Some Kinds of) Drugs, this should settle the hash, so to speak:
Bosnian police have impounded a pigeon after discovering prisoners used it to smuggle drugs into one of the country’s highest security jails, an official said Thursday.
“The guards suspected the animal might be involved in drug smuggling once they noticed four prisoners visibly intoxicated shortly after the pigeon landed on a prison window,” Zenica prison official Josip Pojavnik told AFP.
All four inmates had tested positive for heroin, said Pojavnik, adding disciplinary proceedings had been launched against the inmates.
The drugs, he added, had probably been stuffed into tiny bags attached to the legs of the carrier pigeon, which one of the prisoners had previously been allowed to keep as a pet in his cell.
There was a time in my life when a bird like this would have come in handy. Now, I’d be happy to discover a pigeon that’s capable of mowing my lawn.