Pigeon Found Carrying Drugs Into Kuwait

Little did you know! You could use birds to smuggle drugs now in order to avoid customs! Except customs won this one. Sorry smugglers, but you’ll have to do a better job than you have done. Long story short, instead of planes, people use a pigeon to smuggle their illegal items now.

It appears that the customs in Kuwait seized 178 pills wrapped around a homing pigeon in a small bag, taped to the bird’s back. The employees of the department followed a homing pigeon that was flying from Iraq and finally caught it on the roof of a building near the customs’ department, according to Al-Rai, a Kuwaiti newspaper. As for how they would have known that the pigeon came from Iraq, it is assumed that pigeons fly very much like crows, thus follow a certain direction, making little to no turns.

In the past, homing pigeons were used to carry letters and notes as messenger pigeons and they were known to have crossed a distance of approx. 100 miles. (~161km)

Initially they only delivered letters one-way, but after training, men trained them to deliver messages back and forth between two locations, for more than once a day if needed.

This whole story feels a little sad that an innocent bird was used for the crime of another human being…