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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