I Have Always Thought That Pigeons Carried Messages In Times Of Trouble,

or were raced as a hobby, but no they have a different and more exhausting job, at the Danilo Pinheiro prison near the city of Sorocaba, Brazil, pigeons are having mobile phones strapped to their backs and flying into prisons, a spokesman for the Sao Paulo State Prison Affairs department, said that the practise was almost commonplace, "Guards now keep a sharp eye on pigeons as well as on inmates." in March, guards at the same prison spotted a pigeon resting on a wire with a small cloth bag tied to one leg, they lured the bird down with food and discovered components of a small cell phone in the bag, it may not seem like a big problem but in 2006, Sao Paulo's notorious First Capital Command gang — whose leaders are based in prison — used cell phones to launch a wave of assaults on police, banks and buses that left more than 200 people dead, in another bazaar twist in May, police foiled a plot to smuggle cell phones into a maximum-security lockup using a remote-control model helicopter at another Brazilian prison, so that's how they get the drugs into prison as well!