Pigeons fly cell phones into Brazilian prison

Inmates have devised an innovative way to smuggle in cell phones into a prison farm in Brazil: carrier pigeons. Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern city of Sorocaba noticed a pigeon resting on an electric wire with a small cloth bag tied to one of its legs last week. "The guards nabbed the bird after luring it down with some food and discovered components of a small cell phone inside the bag," police investigator Celso Soramiglio said Tuesday.

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Councilman Wants Birth Control for Pigeons

A councilman has a unique solution to reducing the pigeon population at the Staten Island ferry terminals: Put them on birth control.

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Pigeon Dung Examined in Bridge Collapse

Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed interstate bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy: pigeons.

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India Fines People for Feeding Pigeons

Civic officials have begun imposing fines of 500 rupees ($11) on people caught feeding pigeons in Mumbai's posh Marine Drive area overlooking the Arabian Sea in an attempt to keep their city clean and disease free, an official said Tuesday.

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Tests: Pigeons Don't Pose Bird Flu Trouble

City folks, don't worry. Nobody expects pigeons, more common than manhole covers, will bring the deadly bird flu virus. Pigeons are not immune from the virus. But tests indicate the birds pick it up only when they are exposed to very high doses, do not always become infected under those conditions and are carriers only briefly.

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JOHANNESBURG - A SOUTH African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country's leading internet service provider.

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The Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary is offering a $1000.00 reward for information of the person responsible for poisoning rock pigeons in the Indian Rocks Beach area.

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TOKYO - PIGEONS may sometimes appear to randomly target city sculptures with their droppings, but according to a new Japanese study they also have the potential to become discerning art critics.

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To smuggle mobile phones into prison, Brazilian inmates have turned to a much older form of communication - carrier pigeons.

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Police inspector Celso Soramiglio says guards at a prison near the city of Sorocaba caught a pigeon last Wednesday with components of a small cellphone inside a bag tied to one of its legs. A day later, another pigeon was found with a bag containing a cellphone charger.

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Guards have intercepted two carrier pigeons carrying mobile phones to detainees at a prison in Sorocaba, 62 miles from Sao Paolo, a spokesman for the state penitentiary system said.

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Here's one: A man flew into Australia with a pair of pigeons in his pants. It may sound like the opening of a bad joke, but it was a real tweet for Customs and Border Protection officers at Melbourne International Airport on Tuesday.

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An Australian traveler was caught with two live pigeons stuffed in his pants following a trip to the Middle East, customs officials said Tuesday.

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The 23-year-old man of Meadow Heights in suburban Melbourne had just landed at Melbourne Airport on Sunday after a flight from Dubai when customs and border control officers stopped him and searched his bags.

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An Australian traveller was caught with two live pigeons stuffed in his trousers as he returned from a trip to the Middle East, customs officials said today.

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Iranian security forces have arrested two suspected 'spy pigeons' near the Natanz nuclear facility.

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Bobby Wilson made some bad decisions growing up in Watts. His hobby pigeons and their freewheeling somersaults helped straighten his life out, and now he's passing on his expertise.

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British spy chiefs drew up secret plans to use pigeons to spread false rumours about the impending D-Day landings. The plot in 1943 to drop the birds into German-occupied France is revealed in newly declassified MI5 files released by the National Archives.

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A sharp increase in drugs and mobile phones found inside a Brazilian prison mystified officials - until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay airborne.

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StarTribune.com By ANTHONY LONETREE, Star Tribune Next battle in St. Paul: Pigeon contraception In its continuing quest to control the downtown pigeon population and its fallout on sidewalks and skyways, St. Paul is going Hollywood.

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They're faster at self-recognition. Take that human scum!

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A MAN accidentally spears a pigeon while showing off his juggling skills to his mates at a barbecue. Watch the bizarre video here.

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Gray and inconspicuous they may be, but pigeons are highly adaptable and their numbers are surging around the world, heightening the risk of disease.

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A variety of migrating birds, as well as bats and even hamsters successfully use a 'magnetic sense' to navigate on long journeys. Now, a new type of sensor developed by scientists in the US could make it possible for humans do the same trick

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Opposites attract!

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Pigeons have lived together with human beings for thousands of years. Some pigeons carried posts to help our ancestors and most of them dropped diseases for us to suffer...

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Hollywood residents believe they've found a humane way to reduce their pigeon population and the messes the birds make: the pill.

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A flock of robotic falcons has been dispatched to tackle an influx of obese pigeons who are increasing in number and size thanks to an unnatural diet of fastfood.

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The best thing about this articles is the comments that people from Surrey have left. There are many ingenious ways to get rid of pigeons, and they also speak out about what they think of pigeons. They are a nuisance, and also the flying wizards of Satan. There, I've said it.

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A Day in the Comedy, I Call My Life

Some background stage setting: My home is in SW Virginia (SWVA). We have a small farm that my wife has turned into a cut-your-own flowers business (Pleasant Hill Farm Field of Flowers).

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