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Criminals use pigeons to smuggle cell phones


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29980598/



SAO PAULO - Inmates have devised an innovative way to smuggle cell phones into a prison farm in Brazil: carrier pigeons.

Guards nabbed birds with small bags attached to their legs

The birds were apparently bred and raised inside the prison, smuggled out, outfitted with the cell phone parts and then released to fly back.

"Pigeons instinctively fly back home, always," the investigator said.


In 2006, Sao Paulo's notorious First Capital Command used cell phones to coordinate a wave of assaults on police, banks and buses that left more than 200 people dead in South America's largest city.

The gang's leaders are based in prisons, and use smuggled cell phones to plan and execute drug deals, kidnappings and bank robberies.




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I'm going to be honest, that's brilliant.


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Karen Lozano :]


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Well the jails in South America are corrupt anyways. So I guess this just proves there corruption even more.

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thats is really smart of the inmates like honestly who think of smuggling things on a pigeon thats a good idea

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WE DO HAVE SMART CRIMINALS!!!!!!!!

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how would a bird that small smuggle a cell phone into prison the pigeon is roughly the same size as the cell phone it's carrying it is pretty smart idea though

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Pelicans to smuggle HAM radios is next.

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How do you figure something like this out?
How do you carry out a plan like that?
I cant believe it!
It is brilliant but pretttttty pathetic!

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Bam wrote:

how would a bird that small smuggle a cell phone into prison the pigeon is roughly the same size as the cell phone it's carrying it is pretty smart idea though




1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Where'd you get the coconuts?
King Arthur: We found them.
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!
King Arthur: What do you mean?
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Well, this is a temperate zone
King Arthur: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
King Arthur: Not at all. They could be carried.
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
King Arthur: It could grip it by the husk!
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.
King Arthur: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?
King Arthur: Please!
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Am I right?

 MONEY PYTHON!



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haha its not right, but hey its smart.
i guess their using their brains.

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