Remember that guy who smuggled 14 birds into the country in his pants? Finally, here is the picture we've all been waiting for. I was kind of disappointed because when I hear "in pants" I assumed they were down the top of his pants, which logistically made no sense. Which made it HILARIOUS! However, I guess his little mechanism is sort of ridic...but I still want to know how NO ONE heard tweeting birds during a flight from Vietnam to California. I mean, I'm not exactly surprised that they let them out of Vietnam.
CBP (US Customs) agents inspected Dong and "found bird feathers and droppings on his socks, as well as birds' tail feathers visible under his pants." A subsequent search "discovered 14 live birds attached to two flat pieces of cloth that were wrapped around his calves. The birds included three red-whiskered bul-buls (which is listed as an injurious species under federal law), four magpie robins and six shama thrush." The birds each appear to have been placed in sleeves that were hooked on to the cloth around Dong's legs.
What's more ridiculous about this is that he bought the birds for $50 each to sell them for about $300 to $400 per. Yes, it's a good mark up, but I'm pretty sure it's going to take a whole lot more money for birds to shit on my socks in a confined pant leg for 10s of hours on a stinky plane. I'm just sayin is all.
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