SARAJEVO (AFP) - 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. <SCRIPT language=javascript>if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object();window.yzq_d['NLjMBkwNBks-']='&U=13f5dtumv%2fN%3dNLjMBkwNBks-%2fC%3d587342.12882457.13161376.1442997%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d5459597%2fV%3d1';</SCRIPT><NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT> "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. "We suspect that the pigeon carried the drugs from Tuzla," a town around 70 kilometres (more than 40 miles) northeast of Zenica in central Bosnia, he added. The pigeon had been taken into custody by police, who have launched an investigation aimed at identifying those who had loaded it up with the drugs. "We do not know what to do with the pigeon, but for the time being it will remain behind bars," Pojavnik said. The incident had prompted the prison administration to consider closing down a prisoner pigeon-breeding project established in a ward of the jail as part of a rehabilitation programme, he added. Pojavnik insisted those birds had not been involved in the incident. A similar case of carrier pigeons being used by prisoners was reportedly uncovered earlier this year at a jail in Brazil, where the birds were being used to deliver drugs and even mobile telephones.
Dear srini mam... Its really shocked to hear.. those days doves are used for (thoodhu)... modern world... so using for smuggling... new information.... thnx for posting...
Dear Srini, Really interesting but sad to read about the innocent pigeon's fate. The convoluted strategies of drug peddling or transporting drugs has traversed into the feathered kingdom inhabhitants and the poor creatures have to be penalised too. We've heard or seen birds in cages but in PRISON???
Vahee, It is shocking indeed..maybe the prisoners thought this is also a kind of 'thoodhu''' from the smugglers to them...Rant sriniketan
Paulina, The first thought came to my mind when I read this post was...'these humans, how do they train our co-inhabitants according to their wants and needs....poor souls... Birds in cages is itself a prison to them, but now this pigeon is really behind bars...too sad.. sriniketan
Ladies This just does not seem right. Isn't there anything someone can do about this. It is not right to punish an innocent bird for misdoings of some criminals. Warm Regards Anita
Anitha, Sindhuja, We second your opinion, I have one doubt, Blue Cross doesn't have a say in this matter? Poor animals, why on trials or behind bars, without any wrong-doing on their part? sriniketan
Dear srini Madam, Paavam pa... I am feeling pity for those innocent creatures (pigeons). They can't talk... else they would have defended by going to courts, isn't ? Thanks for sharing with us...
Gowri, don't you think it is too much for us to keep animals and birds behind bars and make them face the trial... sriniketan
