Peruvian police expecting to find a shipment of cocaine hidden in a crate holding two live turkeys were surprised to discover the drug surgically implanted inside the birds. Acting on a tip, officers stopped a Turismo Ejecutivo SRL bus outside the city of Tarapoto in the central jungle state of San Martin, officials said Monday.
Police were puzzled when they found the turkeys in the crate, but didn’t find the cocaine, Tarapoto’s anti-drug police chief, Otero Gonzalez, told the Associated Press. They then noticed that the two turkeys were bloated.
“Lifting up the feathers of the bird, in the chest area, police detected a handmade seam,” he said.
A veterinarian extracted 11 oval-shaped plastic capsules containing 1.9 kilograms (4.2 pounds) of cocaine from one turkey and 17 capsules with 2.9 kilograms (6.4 pounds) from the other, he said.
Both turkeys survived the removal.
Peru police seize cocaine sewn inside live turkeys [AP]
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turkeys are the new coked up laser mexican sharks
I can’t believe the turkeys survived — those are some tough birds.
Would’ve made for an awesome Thanksgiving if they hadn’t intercepted them.
i’ll scale that shit up and use my pet blue whale
or i’ll bling it up and use my $20K+ egyptian cat
PEB
“…noticed the turkeys were bloated…”
bull-f*cking-shit on this story, this reeks of ass-covering by a guilty insider party
Besides, sharks still > turkeys, at least until they turkey week on the discovery channel.
@analyst, i agree, sounds fishy.
Didn’t Jeff Skilling do that to a woman…lifting and checking— in NYC before he began his retirement in Minnesota?
coked up peruvian laser turkeys are the new killin it
Clearly a decoy bust…while they are wasting time with ~11lbs of coke another truck with 30 turkeys with 300lbs of coke stitched into them drives on by these Barney Fifes…
@3 — hah! yeah, that’d be an unforgettable one.
Thanksgiving at Dykstra’s place will be a low key affair this year..
-Pfluger
My egyptian cat can carry 3 pounds of blow, 2 glocks, and 8 ounces of african jewels over a 36 hour period.
What’s the going rate for a key of coke in Peru?
If anyone needs something implanted in a collie, let me know.
-DK
Coked-up peruvian laser turkeys make me horny. If they’re preserved in formaldehyde.
-Damien Hirst
@15 lets make love on top of an embalmed peruvian turkey smuggling drugs.
-steve c
@16 throw hundos at me while screaming “stuff it! stuff this bird!!!”
-DH
@15-17 I’m enjoying this back and forth.
ari “call me freud” kiev
Oh – wait – you said “Turkeys.” Damn, I was getting excited.
-Sam Israel (from far, far away)
@19 nice
always the humanitarians! using plastic vials when old-fashioned glass would have done the job.
push huppies
The drug smugglers have done this with puppies too. A few years back there was a shipment of puppies headed to the US that all had pouches of cocaine sewn into their helpless little tummies. Apparently some customs official with an IQ above room temperature thought it was a bit suspicious to be shipping loads of puppies from South America to the US (a.k.a. the land of abundant puppy mills and overflowing animal shelters), and took a closer look.