Police capture overloaded drugs pigeon

[Amizon]

Police in Colombia have reportedly intercepted a carrier pigeon which was being used to smuggle drugs into prison.

Officers suggested that the 45g pack of marijuana and cocaine strapped to the bird's back were too heavy for it to complete its journey to the Bucaramanga institution, BBC News reports.

Police commander Jose Angel Mendoza said: "We found the bird about a block away from the prison trying to fly over with a package, but due to the excess weight it could not accomplish its mission."

He added: "This is a new case of criminal ingenuity."

Pigeons trained by inmates or their accomplices have reportedly been used in the past to smuggle SIM cards for mobile phones into the prison.

Source: Digital Spy

Pigeons now? Seriously? If anything, it would've been genius if it hadn't been caught.

 

[Valvalis]

That is pretty clever I feel bad for the bird though, it sounds like that would have been uncomfortable for it to be so overloaded. If I were the bird, I would've sold that stuff myself to get back at the criminals, and then kept the money and bought a bunch of crackers with it or something.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

HAH!

That's a new one I've never heard of.

I've heard of friends and family sending inmates letters and sneaking drugs in underneath the postage stamps and along the glue of the seal of the envelopes, but never pigeons.

Cheap on postage. XD

But they shouldn't have overloaded the poor thing so much if they wanted it to work.