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Woman smuggles live budgie into Irish prison

JP

Ambiguous but... 

I'm assuming that all those items weren't found in the same search?

Anonymous Coward

One budgie AND.... 

"eight mobile phones, three sim cards, some home made booze, 150 tablets and 30 syringes"

Quite a "big" girl then?

ECHO, Echo, echo

Mark

Yep 

They were all found in the same search.

Of the prison.

sossinge

Doing Bird... 

Surprised you missed that one El Reg...!

cor

Wot? No Davy lamp? 

She was only a coal miner's daughter, but there was plenty of slack in her knickers.

cor

No room for a .... 

...stool pigeon?

cor

Did they ... 

... check her bra for a blue tit?

Jasmine Strong

The Great Escape 

Maybe they wanted a budgie to serve in place of the canary beloved of miners of old. I suggest an immediate ground-penetrating radar search in order to locate the tunnel they're digging.

Doug

don't you recognise a parrot joke when you see one .. 

Don't you recognise a parrot joke when you see one. Especially after the last report from the same source ..

Hein Kruger

jailbird 

hehe, this gives new meaning to the term jailbird

Anonymous Coward

The bird was into birds then? 

That 'bout sums it up

Anonymous Coward

that's a real jailbird.. 

..and i bet it sings like a canary, before winging it....

Martin Huizing

My 2 cents... 

Budgies can fly right? I assume the prison has an open-air area...

Filthy minds push other thoughts aside.

hehehehehe

Anonymous Coward

if she is.... 

...shagging a bird does that make her a lesbian?

Trevor Watt

Wait until Christmas 

Wait until Christmas, she may try to smuggle a turkey in then....

Tim

Was she definitely smuggling? 

Perhaps it was just an exercise in personal amusement.

Anonymous Coward

Well....... 

I heard she's had a cockatoo in there as well ..........

Anonymous Coward

Tweety Pie 

What would Tweety Pie say ....

.... I Taut I Taw A Puddy Twat

Colin Jackson

Well... 

This news item is dead. It's pushing up the daisies etc. etc.

Paul Barton

RE: Wot? No Davy lamp? 

I was gonna say... if they did a really thorough search, they'd probably find the rest of the mining team

Connie Lingus

A Budgie? Really? 

Are they sure it wasn't a fish hawk?

War Monger

All that contraband was smuggled in, eh? 

Who would have thought that Paris Hilton knows someone in an Irish prison?

Michael O'Malley

It gets much, much worse. 

They also found a contraband plasma TV in one major criminal's cell. Omigod, are we dealing with a whale here?