Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/13/passenger-attempts-to-smuggle.html
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Am I having a stroke? Did I just read about underground gamblers betting on how much a finch chirps?
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Authorities convinced a witness to flip on the smuggling operation and he’s getting ready to sing like a canary.
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The NYT has done it now. Don’t they know the first rule of underground bird singing club?
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Underground Finch singing contests exist, and yet Hollywood seems to be totally out of ideas.
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Would watch the shit out of that film.
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What’s going to happen to the finches?
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Humans suck. Why do this to small birds?
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Birds in hair rollers is the only way to achieve this look:
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They’ll be released on The Galapagos Islands
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I misunderstood this story entirely.
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I would definitely have expected rare bird collectors to be at the forefront of such a thing, or perhaps people selling “exotic” remedies for impotence or something. Fancy deserts, maybe? Perhaps that’s what they do with the birds when the competition is finished?
'Course, as long as the house has some kind of inside edge, it could easily be a profitable venture. (Makes me think of that old Encyclopedia Brown story, where the neighborhood kids are all swindled by placing bets on an egg-spinning competition.)
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Something is very finchy about this story
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Yeah my first thought was “at least they’re not smuggling budgies…”
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Obligatory:
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People are fascinating and gross.
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Being stuffed in a tube: Still more comfortable than flying Spirit
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Was hoping the fine gentleman’s name was Atticus.
“Yeh, ‘at one’s me bruva, an’ ‘at one, an’ ‘at one, an’ 'at one…”
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