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12.09.2011, 10:26
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Thieves in the small Swiss town of Weiningen near Zurich stole 84 carrier pigeons worth about 12,000 francs ($13,500), local police reported on Sunday. Read the full article: Thieves stole 84 carrier pigeons in Swiss town |
12.09.2011, 11:32
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Wouldn't they just fly back home when released?
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12.09.2011, 11:34
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| Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Maybe they will pop up when the local pop ups pop up ?
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12.09.2011, 11:51
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A bit of a coup?  |
12.09.2011, 11:52
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i thought my post was delayed...
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12.09.2011, 11:54
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| Quote: | | | | | On 14th January, 1842 at 08.46 Pil_MCR wrote
i thought my post was delayed... | | | | | Just a bit. Edit : Damn! I thought this forum didn't add to post count.  |
12.09.2011, 12:14
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| Quote: | | | | | Just a bit.
Edit : Damn! I thought this forum didn't add to post count. | | | | |
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12.09.2011, 12:16
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| Quote: | | | | | Just a bit.
Edit : Damn! I thought this forum didn't add to post count. | | | | | roflcopter...  | | This user would like to thank Ouchboy for this useful post: | |
12.09.2011, 12:18
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| Quote: | | | | | May I be the first to offer sincere contrafibularities on the occasion of your making your 3,000th post such an anticlimax | | | | | TBH, I hadn't anything epic to say. And, to be fair, it's pretty representative of the previous 2,999.
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12.09.2011, 12:40
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it was probably cat burglars.
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12.09.2011, 12:44
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A police sketch rendition of the suspect | | The following 2 users would like to thank Ouchboy for this useful post: | |
12.09.2011, 13:26
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I had a number of such birds tied to me by bits of string, and they pulled me everywhere. I went to the doctor about it, and he told me I was pigeon-towed.
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12.09.2011, 13:28
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12.09.2011, 14:11
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Police said the culprits will find themselves doing some serious bird when caught.
Cheers,
Nick
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12.09.2011, 14:39
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What I don't get is carrier pigeons.
Homing pigeons perhaps. Even racing pigeons. But carrier pigeons?
Haven't they heard of email in Weiningen?
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12.09.2011, 14:41
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| Quote: | | | | | Haven't they heard of email in Weiningen? | | | | | i don't think they can use email due to the fact most places there don't have electricity (and only some of them managed to get running water recently).
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12.09.2011, 14:54
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| | | Re: Thieves stole 84 carrier pigeons in Swiss town
Nuclear powerplant explosion in France
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84 stolen Carrier Pigeons 
...... the conundrum " The Local" often finds itself in when reporting todays top news headline
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12.09.2011, 15:52
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Ahhh....but you see it wasn't a nuclear power plant, and it was in some foreign land.....Franceland I believe is the correct term. This is crime on our doorstep! Against poor defenceless animals. Imagine the uproar on this forum if it had been puppies or kittens. | Quote: | | | | | Nuclear powerplant explosion in France
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84 stolen Carrier Pigeons
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12.09.2011, 16:01
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Police said to be relying on stool pigeons for leads.
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12.09.2011, 16:12
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| Quote: | | | | | What I don't get is carrier pigeons. | | | | | It's OK: they're homing pigeons.
The Local, meanwhile, is a moron.
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