Drug-smuggling pigeon carrying 178 party pills caught by Kuwaiti officials

Kuwaiti customs officials caught a pigeon carrying 178 pills in a tiny backpack into the country.

The officials seized the pigeon close to the customs building in Abdali near the country’s border with Iraq, according to al-Rai.

The drugs were apparently a type of ketamine, a drug used to prevent pain but is also known as an illegal party drug, according to the BBC.

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Customs officials were reportedly aware that pigeons were being used as drug smugglers, but this is the first time a bird was caught.

This is not the first time pigeons have been used to carry in paraphernalia. In Costa Rica, prison guards captured a pigeon carrying cocaine and cannabis in 2015.