Pigeon ‘caught smuggling 178 ecstasy pills in a tiny backpack, forcing cops to swoop’

DRUG smugglers used a PIGEON wearing a tiny backpack to smuggle drugs into Kuwait, it has been reported.

Cops tracked the bent bird as it flew from neighbouring Iraq and swooped as it crossed the border.

Amazingly, it was wearing a tiny pouch that appears to have been taped or sewed onto its back and contained 178 pills, reports.

It wasn’t immediately clear exactly what kind of pills the feathered fiend was packing.

The image of the drug-laden pigeon has not been verified and information on the discovery does not appear to have been recorded on Kuwaiti customs records.

Local media has widely reported on the story, however.

It isn’t the first pigeon nabbed for narcotics smuggling - in 2015, guards at a Costa Rican prison caught a pigeon flying drugs into the slammer.

The bird, carrying 14 grams of cocaine and cannabis, was spotted flying close to the jail in a bid by smugglers to sneak the drugs in.

Police in San Jose, Costa Rica, captured the bird on a patio outside and hauled it in before it made it over the medium-security prison’s walls.

A picture of the bird with a cable strapped to its leg to stop it escaping was posted by officers appealing for information about the incident.

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