What with all those Muslim Uighurs causing problems and now Hong Kong, authorities in Beijing decided it was only prudent to probe each anus of the 10,000 pigeons that were to be released in celebration of National day this week, just in case some sort of nasty surprise was hiding up there. I mean nastier than usual.
Quote: “The entire process was reportedly videotaped.” I can only hope Homeland Security in the US is taking notes.
I thought that birds (including pigeons, as far as I know) didn’t have anuses, they had cloacas.
Not as compelling a headline, I suppose. What a shitty job, though!
Small comfort to the pigeons being probed.
How big an explosive can you shove up a pigeon’s bum anyway?
Seems like it would be quicker to stick a bunch in a box and xray them. I think someone just has a fetish for pigeonholes.
Reminds me of Project Pigeon. And my all-time favorite – the bat bomb.
Articles like this remind me almost daily that no matter how much I dislike my job sometimes; it’s not nearly as bad as it could be.
Well, if there weren’t any terrorist pigeons before this there certainly are some now.
And people thought being part of an authoritarian power structure was fun.
There’s a billion people in China. I’m sure there’s at least a few who have an avian rectal fetish.
“Captain, the Klingon Warbird has engaged its Cloacaing Device!”
Probably, but how do you find them?
Facebook?
Or, is there such a thing as Assbook?
PigeonAssbook?
Well I’ve learned that thread titles really are funnier if you add, “in bed” to the end. And that a journey of 10,000 anuses starts with a single probe.
I initially read “pigeon” in the title as “prison.”
Well, now we know when doves cry.
Coulda made a fortune as pay per view!
I’ll be scouting the porn sites.
Unless I am missing some alien tech, the biggest “bomb” that could be put up a pigeon’s… hole… is a little smaller than an M80. Throwing, say, fifty M80s into a crowd would not be without consequences, but would hardly represent a WMD.
Bear in mind that each one of those fifty M80s would be surrounded by a live pigeon when it exploded.