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Hard-core gangland types locked up in a maximum security Irish prison appear to have enlisted an innocent budgie smuggled snuggled in a woman visitor's, er, internal bits. According to a report on breakingnews.ie, the small live parrot was found during a routine search for smuggled goods carried out by officers at Portlaoise …

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  1. JP

    Ambiguous but...

    I'm assuming that all those items weren't found in the same search?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    One budgie AND....

    "eight mobile phones, three sim cards, some home made booze, 150 tablets and 30 syringes"

    Quite a "big" girl then?

    ECHO, Echo, echo

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  3. Mark

    Yep

    They were all found in the same search.

    Of the prison.

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  4. sossinge

    Doing Bird...

    Surprised you missed that one El Reg...!

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  5. cor

    Wot? No Davy lamp?

    She was only a coal miner's daughter, but there was plenty of slack in her knickers.

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  6. cor

    No room for a ....

    ...stool pigeon?

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  7. cor

    Did they ...

    ... check her bra for a blue tit?

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  8. Jasmine Strong

    The Great Escape

    Maybe they wanted a budgie to serve in place of the canary beloved of miners of old. I suggest an immediate ground-penetrating radar search in order to locate the tunnel they're digging.

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  9. Doug

    don't you recognise a parrot joke when you see one ..

    Don't you recognise a parrot joke when you see one. Especially after the last report from the same source ..

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  10. Hein Kruger

    jailbird

    hehe, this gives new meaning to the term jailbird

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  11. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The bird was into birds then?

    That 'bout sums it up

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  12. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    that's a real jailbird..

    ..and i bet it sings like a canary, before winging it....

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  13. Martin Huizing

    My 2 cents...

    Budgies can fly right? I assume the prison has an open-air area...

    Filthy minds push other thoughts aside.

    hehehehehe

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  14. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    if she is....

    ...shagging a bird does that make her a lesbian?

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  15. Trevor Watt

    Wait until Christmas

    Wait until Christmas, she may try to smuggle a turkey in then....

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  16. Tim

    Was she definitely smuggling?

    Perhaps it was just an exercise in personal amusement.

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  17. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Well.......

    I heard she's had a cockatoo in there as well ..........

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  18. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Tweety Pie

    What would Tweety Pie say ....

    .... I Taut I Taw A Puddy Twat

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  19. Colin Jackson

    Well...

    This news item is dead. It's pushing up the daisies etc. etc.

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  20. Paul Barton

    RE: Wot? No Davy lamp?

    I was gonna say... if they did a really thorough search, they'd probably find the rest of the mining team

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  21. Connie Lingus

    A Budgie? Really?

    Are they sure it wasn't a fish hawk?

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  22. War Monger

    All that contraband was smuggled in, eh?

    Who would have thought that Paris Hilton knows someone in an Irish prison?

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  23. Michael O'Malley

    It gets much, much worse.

    They also found a contraband plasma TV in one major criminal's cell. Omigod, are we dealing with a whale here?

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