Friday, June 27, 2008

Pigeons smuggle drugs, phones into Rio prison

A sharp increase in drugs and mobile phones found inside a Brazilian prison mystified officials - until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay airborne.

Inmates at the prison in Marilia, Sao Paulo state, had been training carrier pigeons to smuggle in goods using cell phone sized pouches on their backs, a low-tech but ingenious way of skipping the high-tech security that visitors faced.

The ingenious plan was finally foiled when a number visitors to the prison, after being subjected to cavity searches were found to be concealing several carrier pigeons up their asses.

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