A Pakistani pigeon that crossed over into India with a note strapped to its tiny leg has Indian authorities aflutter with concerns that it’s a spy.
Accordingly, the brazen bird is now in police custody there and being “questioned” whilst it undergoes x-rays and various other tests to determine its actual clandestine mission.
Sources say the captured “spy pigeon” -- which has itself captured the world’s imagination this week -- hasn’t yet finked on its fowl handlers, but it has increased tensions between the two enemy nations.
The sly white bird was allegedly caught communicating with a flock a chickens about four miles over the hotly disputed India-Pakistan border region of Kashmir, immediately raising the chicken-farmer’s suspicions.
When he managed to finally seize the feathered intruder and noticed the leg-band it was wearing, he contacted the police who then arrested the small suspect and incarcerated it in a birdcage.
“We suspect the pigeon was carrying contact information for another spy that has already infiltrated,” said a police spokesman, “so we put it in a cage.”
Actually the information it was carrying is said to be a phone number, probably of its owner who provided the info in the likely event the winged critter veered from its intended course, as they are often wont to do.
However, carrier pigeons have a long history of fairly reliable service during wartime, which might explain why Pakistani officials are now rumored to be negotiating for the bird’s release.
They insist though that accusations by India that the pigeon perp is a spy are totally absurd.
