Arlan Galbraith

So this guy scams people out of millions of dollars by selling pigeons?

Now the guy's name is Arlen, and Arlen's around 33 years old when this story starts, and he's living in Canada, and bro really, really loves pigeons.

He loves raising them, he loves training them, he also happens to love money.

Now, he and his family, they have a farm and they raise cattle and pigs and stuff.

But what he's really focused on are the pigeons, specifically racing pigeons, which are like a pigeon trained to race.

Here's some sample footage of pigeon racing just so you can sort of see what it looks like.

And so one day in 1980, the worst thing happens to Arlen.

The dude goes broke, and he has to file for bankruptcy.

So now, in order to earn a living, he has to do farm work for other people just to keep himself and his family afloat.

Now, it's around this time that he starts getting more involved with his local pigeon racing communities.

And he becomes a member of several official pigeon racing organizations.

And he breeds pigeons and he races them for years.

And so decades pass.

And it's now 2001.

And around this time, he decides he doesn't want to be broke anymore.

And he gets this idea to start a company around pigeon racing and breeding.

But the problem is he isn't particularly doing anything special to set him apart from other pigeon racing companies.

So he thinks the only way to get people's attention is to just lie.

So he starts telling people that he's developed his own genetic line of pigeons, like super pigeons.

And these super pigeons are specifically bred for racing, and they're going to be the fastest pigeons anyone's ever seen.