AVIAN ARTISTY

Artist and Patriot, Duke Riley spent 4 years planning and eight months breeding and homing fifty pigeons with the goal they could make the 90-mile flight from Havana, Cuba back to Key West, Florida carrying highly coveted contraband Cuban Cohiba cigars. Eleven returned. The New York Times posted a great article and video above on how Riley subverted billions-of-dollars of high-tech homeland security surveillance systems for a few stogies!