September27, 2011 Smuggler Caught with Pants Down

CaliforniaMama • Sep 27, 2011 8:37 am

Hummingbird Smuggler Caught with his Pants Down

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

newtimer • Sep 27, 2011 9:17 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 • Sep 27, 2011 9:44 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 • Sep 27, 2011 10:01 am

newtimer;758773 wrote:
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 • Sep 27, 2011 10:05 am

newtimer;758773 wrote:
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 • Sep 27, 2011 11:21 am

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/2011/09/19/hummerbummer/

Diaphone Jim • Sep 27, 2011 1:07 pm

What with the state of airline amenities, I suppose he could have been just carrying some snacks.

Gravdigr • Sep 27, 2011 1:15 pm

Maybe he just wanted his weiner to look bigger.

That's why I like chicks with small hands.

:D

ZenGum • Sep 27, 2011 9:26 pm

Man, I have the wierdest hummer right now ...

ETA:

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

Deterence fail.

Gravdigr • Sep 27, 2011 11:41 pm

Humdinger?

CaliforniaMama • Sep 28, 2011 9:14 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 • Sep 28, 2011 12:31 pm

mist nets.

buttless • Sep 28, 2011 4:23 pm

I thought this odd when I first read about it because I have never heard of anybody keeping hummingbirds as pets.

Gravdigr • Sep 28, 2011 5:04 pm

Hummingbirds have big peckers. Comparatively.

CaliforniaMama • Sep 29, 2011 7:40 am

BigV;759122 wrote:
mist nets.

Cool! Thanks!!