Man caught at Texas-Mexico border smuggling birds in pants

The "Award Winning" Corpus Christi Caller-Times ^ | March 30, 2012 at 7:15 a.m.

[Paleo Conservative]

DEL RIO — A Texas man caught trying to smuggle baby parrots back from Mexico by putting the birds in his pants has been fined more than $2,600.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Thursday that agents in Del Rio also confiscated 56 blades that are used for cockfighting. Authorities said the 33-year-old man is from the West Texas town of Comanche but did not release his name.

Birds cannot be brought across the border due to concerns of spreading disease.

The small, green parrots were found Sunday in the man's pockets and in his backpack.

[MrB]

What you got in there, huh?

[blueunicorn6]

Well, I guess it’s better than an alligator.

[Moltke]

Birds cannot be brought across the border due to concerns of spreading disease.

That border fence must be high enough to prevent birds from flying over it, right?

[Locomotive Breath]

It would be OK if he brought them across in a condom.

[Slings and Arrows]

He's lucky the birds didn't go after his worm.

[martin_fierro]

♀☹☠☣☢★☆ MANGLED GENITALS PING ☆★☢☣☠☹♂

[aruanan]

When you see what some birds can do to a Brazil nut, I wouldn’t want them anywhere near mine.

[a fool in paradise]

Birds cannot be brought across the border due to concerns of spreading disease.

But illegal aliens can enter the country with open arms and no medical screening...

[skinkinthegrass]

..and not Gila monsters, just parrot chicks...
be a man, get some Gila Monsters

[Krankor]

Hope they’re not sapsuckers.