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APhoto Of The Day — 5/6/09

ORG XMIT: LA114 This undated photo provided by the Department of Justice shows detained suspect Sony Dong, with songbirds strapped to his legs at Los Angeles International Airport. Dong was charged Tuesday, May 5, 2009 with smuggling song birds into the United States by strapping more than a dozen of them to his legs and trying to walk out of the Los Angeles International Airport. (AP Photo/Department of Justice) (The Spokesman-Review)
ORG XMIT: LA114 This undated photo provided by the Department of Justice shows detained suspect Sony Dong, with songbirds strapped to his legs at Los Angeles International Airport. Dong was charged Tuesday, May 5, 2009 with smuggling song birds into the United States by strapping more than a dozen of them to his legs and trying to walk out of the Los Angeles International Airport. (AP Photo/Department of Justice) (The Spokesman-Review)

This undated photo provided by the Department of Justice shows detained suspect Sony Dong, with songbirds strapped to his legs at Los Angeles International Airport. Dong was charged Tuesday with smuggling song birds into the United States by strapping more than a dozen of them to his legs and trying to walk out of the Los Angeles International Airport. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Department of Justice)

Top Cutlines:

  • 1. Brent Andrews' poem
  • 2. Uh, you mean this isn't how you Twitter? -- Gato.
  • 3. Dong would have made it through if a dozen song birds didn't break out in a chorus of God Bless America, in harmony. -- JeanieS.
  • HM: DanJ


D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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