Kuwaiti Police Catch Drug Smugglers Using Pigeon Backpack To Move Pills

Smuggling drugs into Kuwait is no mean feat, but smugglers are nothing if not creative — as evidenced by the capture of a homing pigeon wearing a pigeon colored backpack filled with 178 pills: 

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Details about the pigeon bust are scarce, but Al-Arabiya reports:

Kuwaiti customs seized 178 pills wrapped around a homing pigeon. The department's employees tracked a homing pigeon that was coming from Iraq and finally caught it above a building near the customs' department, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai reported.

[Al-Arabiya]

On the plus side, the pigeon seems happy and healthy — we hope it won't be punished for its unwitting criminal activities:

[H/T Cass Lowe]