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CaliforniaMama 09-27-2011 07:37 AM
September27, 2011 Smuggler Caught with Pants Down
 
Hummingbird Smuggler Caught with his Pants Down

http://cellar.org/2011/smuggler.jpg

http://cellar.org/2011/smuggler 4.jpg

via BoingBoing who got it from TYWKIWDBI who got it from LiveDoor (Japanese blog)

newtimer 09-27-2011 08:17 AM
Do you really want angry hummingbirds with long, needle-like beaks right next to your wiener like that?
And why would anybody want to smuggle hummingbirds in the first place? It's easier to just take a hummingbird feeder with you and hang it up when you get there.

ProperCroc 09-27-2011 08:44 AM
This guy is going to federal pound-me-in-the-a-prison for this one. Poor little fellows ... they supposed to pick flowers, not crotches.

footfootfoot 09-27-2011 09:01 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by newtimer (Post 758773)
Do you really want angry hummingbirds with long, needle-like beaks right next to your wiener like that?
And why would anybody want to smuggle hummingbirds in the first place? It's easier to just take a hummingbird feeder with you and hang it up when you get there.
Yes.
Who says a bird in the hand is worth at least dozen in the bush? Maybe all he wanted was a hummer.

Sundae 09-27-2011 09:05 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by newtimer (Post 758773)
And why would anybody want to smuggle hummingbirds in the first place? It's easier to just take a hummingbird feeder with you and hang it up when you get there.
Depends where he was travelling to.
I could hang up half a dozen feeder in my garden without any luck!

monster 09-27-2011 10:21 AM
Quote:
In 2010, French customs officers at the Rochambeau airport in Cayenne, French Guiana after noticing some suspicious bulges, conducted an intimate pat-down of a Dutch tourist and found some tiny parcels in some very personal space.

The guy with his shorts full of hummingbirds was reported to be a repeat offender; he was allegedly intercepted at the same airport with an accomplice and a cargo of 53 hummingbirds two years prior to this photographed encounter. I was unable to find record of the convict’s previous offence, but in the 2010 incident, he was fined €6000. The value of his catch was estimated to be between €10,400 and €13,200...

found at the finchwench:
http://finchwench.wordpress.com/2011.../hummerbummer/

Diaphone Jim 09-27-2011 12:07 PM
What with the state of airline amenities, I suppose he could have been just carrying some snacks.

Gravdigr 09-27-2011 12:15 PM
Maybe he just wanted his weiner to look bigger.

That's why I like chicks with small hands.

:D

ZenGum 09-27-2011 08:26 PM
Man, I have the wierdest hummer right now ...


ETA:
Quote:
he was fined €6000. The value of his catch was estimated to be between €10,400 and €13,200...
Deterence fail.

Gravdigr 09-27-2011 10:41 PM
Humdinger?

CaliforniaMama 09-28-2011 08:14 AM
I wonder how they catch them? Hummingbirds are very quick little critters (can you call a bird a critter?).

Sundae, here is a virtual hummingbird feeder for you.

BigV 09-28-2011 11:31 AM
mist nets.

buttless 09-28-2011 03:23 PM
I thought this odd when I first read about it because I have never heard of anybody keeping hummingbirds as pets.

Gravdigr 09-28-2011 04:04 PM
Hummingbirds have big peckers. Comparatively.

CaliforniaMama 09-29-2011 06:40 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by BigV (Post 759122)
Cool! Thanks!!


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