Police seize ‘super obedient’ lookout parrot trained by Brazil drug dealers
Bird was taught to alert criminals to officers’ presence, according to reports: ‘As soon as the police got close he started shouting’
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!”