Smuggler's Plot For The Birds(pic)
 

Two charged with illegal import of Asian magpies, robins, bul-buls :1orglaugh:1orglaugh tweet tweet

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Two California men were indicted today on federal charges that they illegally smuggled Asian songbirds into the country, most recently last month when one of the defendants, returning from a trip to Vietnam, was found with 14 live birds strapped to his legs. As seen in the below evidence photo, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at Los Angeles International Airport discovered the birds under the pants of Sony Dong. According to a Department of Justice press release, CBP agents inspected Dong and "found bird feathers and droppings on his socks, as well as birds' tail feathers visible under his pants." A subsequent search "discovered 14 live birds attached to two flat pieces of cloth that were wrapped around his calves. The birds included three red-whiskered bul-buls (which is listed as an injurious species under federal law), four magpie robins and six shama thrush." The birds each appear to have been placed in sleeves that were hooked on to the cloth around Dong's legs. A second man, Duc Le, 34, was later arrested in connection with the bird smuggling. According to a criminal complaint, Dong told investigators that he purchased birds for $50 each and re-sold them for $300-$400 apiece.

Idiots should have flown to mexico and then driven across.

crime doesn't pay :1orglaugh

poor birds

Damn, this is so fucked up...poor birds!

Man that is fucking crazy :1orglaugh poor birds though :(

poor birds! So many hours confined in there. People are so abusive to animals some times!

the good news is that this guy will now have a taste of his own medicine. He'll learn what it's like not to be free.

Poor birds, poor birds... wtf it's stupid people that would pay 300-400$ for them that fuel this type of thing, probably the same people that say 'poor birdies'

Fucking assholes. People will do anything to make a buck out of it... :disgust:disgust

there's gotta be an easier way to smuggle birds in... wtf was the guy thinking?

supply and demand :(

yeah guys aren't to intelligent being this is something that was first done with drugs that eventually the authorities caught onto.

jesus christ people are fucking stupid!

and don't the damn things chirp or make any noise?!

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He should get a Hitchcock style bird revenge.

uh thats my shoes not birds :1orglaugh im thinking the beaks have tape :(