Pigeontrack: Blue Crab Boulevard

tom writes:  By the way, did you know that pigeon smuggling is now the rage? Blue Crab Boulevard has the scoop!

Zounds--it's true!

From the AP and Blue Crab Boulevard:  Inspectors found the pigeons wrapped and taped from neck to tail in pockets of the pair's coats after they asked the men from Uxbridge, Ontario, to remove their jackets.

One man told CBP officers he is a pigeon collector who belongs to a club that trades and sells birds of various colors. He said he was taking the birds to trade or sell to his uncle.

As I noted in a comment on the Blue Crab Boulevard, Champion racers and pigeons raised for specific colors sell for thousands of dollars–definitely not the scrappy city pigeons most people see.  Not to slam my own kind, of course.

Now off again for another foul medicinal concoction (ooh, my head feels like a basketball...).