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SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!
The Song Challenge: Is That A Baby Budgie
In Your Pants, Or Are You Just Glad To See Me? -- RIO DE JANEIRO,
Brazil (Reuters) -- With parrots and snakes in his luggage and bird eggs tucked into his underwear, an
Austrian tourist has been arrested and charged for animal trafficking, Brazilian police said on Wednesday.
"He put (the eggs) near his testicles so they would be at nest temperature," a police
spokesman said. Police discovered 21 parrots, four parakeets and two snakes hidden in
two large suitcases carried by Austrian botanist Johann Zillinger. hey also found Zillinger
had rolled five parakeet eggs into a sock and nestled them in his underwear. "Since some
of the parakeets that he had with him were newborns, we assume that some of the eggs had
already hatched." Tipped off by an anonymous call, Rio de Janeiro police arrested the
Austrian on Monday in front of his Copacabana beach hotel, as he climbed into a taxi on his way to
catch a flight to Europe. According to police, Zillinger bought the animals in the
Amazon port city of Belen and planned to take them to Austria to sell them in Europe.
Hard Eggs by SharonA
(Tune: "Heartaches")
Hard eggs, hard eggs,
I'm smugglin' two snakes, birds and hard eggs.
My bag has budgies and they sing to me.
How could I stow their kids? In just my BVD's!
Hard eggs, hard eggs,
What if they shatter twixt my lard-legs?
I would be Pappy to chicks there, too,
When my hard eggs break through!