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Police seize 'super obedient' lookout parrot trained by Brazilian drug dealers
Source: The Guardian
Police seize 'super obedient' lookout parrot trained by Brazilian drug dealers
Bird was taught to alert criminals to officers’ presence, according to reports: ‘As soon as the police got close he started shouting’
Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent
Wed 24 Apr 2019 18.16 BST Last modified on Wed 24 Apr 2019 20.50 BST
A parrot has been taken into custody in northern Brazil following a police raid targeting crack dealers.
According to reports in the Brazilian press, the bird had been taught to alert criminals to police operations in Vila Irmã Dulce, a low-income community in the sun-scorched capital of Piauí state, by shouting: “Mum, the police!”
The parrot, who has not been named, was seized on Monday afternoon when officers swooped on a drug den run by a local couple.
“He must have been trained for this,” one officer involved in the operation said of the two-winged wrongdoer. “As soon as the police got close he started shouting.”
A Brazilian journalist who came face to face with the imprisoned parrot on Tuesday described it as a “super obedient” creature – albeit one that had kept its beak firmly shut after being “arrested”.
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Bird was taught to alert criminals to officers’ presence, according to reports: ‘As soon as the police got close he started shouting’
Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent
Wed 24 Apr 2019 18.16 BST Last modified on Wed 24 Apr 2019 20.50 BST
A parrot has been taken into custody in northern Brazil following a police raid targeting crack dealers.
According to reports in the Brazilian press, the bird had been taught to alert criminals to police operations in Vila Irmã Dulce, a low-income community in the sun-scorched capital of Piauí state, by shouting: “Mum, the police!”
The parrot, who has not been named, was seized on Monday afternoon when officers swooped on a drug den run by a local couple.
“He must have been trained for this,” one officer involved in the operation said of the two-winged wrongdoer. “As soon as the police got close he started shouting.”
A Brazilian journalist who came face to face with the imprisoned parrot on Tuesday described it as a “super obedient” creature – albeit one that had kept its beak firmly shut after being “arrested”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/24/brazil-drug-parrot-trained-as-lookout-for-dealers
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