And now for something weird...

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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I don't get it. There are criminal parrots?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...-brazil-trying-warn-drug-dealers-raid-n998521
Parrot taken into custody by police in Brazil for trying to warn drug dealers of raid
Despite the bird's warning, a man and a woman were arrested, a local media outlet reports.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/24/brazil-drug-parrot-trained-as-lookout-for-dealers
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”.

“So far it hasn’t made a sound … completely silent,” the reporter said.

Alexandre Clark, a local vet, confirmed the parrot had not cooperated: “Lots of police officers have come by and he’s said nothing.”
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...-brazil-trying-warn-drug-dealers-raid-n998521
Parrot taken into custody by police in Brazil for trying to warn drug dealers of raid
Despite the bird's warning, a man and a woman were arrested, a local media outlet reports.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/24/brazil-drug-parrot-trained-as-lookout-for-dealers
Alexandre Clark, a local vet, confirmed the parrot had not cooperated: “Lots of police officers have come by and he’s said nothing.”

I wonder what the parrot's thinking: "I'm a parrot, not a rat!"
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article273913990.html
Texas man bragged about stealing money from cartel. Now he’s missing, officials say
Erik Tadeo Ramirez was last seen trying to escape from a moving pickup truck as it crossed the Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge in Laredo, Texas, according to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI. A March 24 video recording captured a man with a bloodied face in the passenger seat of a blue Dodge Ram with several other men at 1:09 a.m. He opens the door and tries to jump out, but the men grab him and pull him back inside, officials said in the complaint.
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Hours earlier, Ramirez was boastful, witnesses told investigators. They overheard him talking on the phone at 11 p.m. during a party at a home in Laredo, telling an unknown woman he’d stolen $50,000 from Cartel Del Noreste, according to documents. He told the woman he wasn’t scared of her, that he didn’t fear retribution because he was in the United States, witnesses said.
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Sure, he was safely in the USA.
 

SamR

Joined Mar 19, 2019
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Just a few miles below me is the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center/Homeland Defense where all Federal Officers (except FBI, CIA) are trained. They do a lot of role playing, outside the facility trailing, and hard partying. Used to be able to spot them riding around in their fuel conservation eggshell blue AMC Gremlins back in the day doing their trailing field exercises. Everybody from the US Mall Rangers, Park Rangers, ATF, ICE, Customs and Border Patrol, US Marshals plus all other Federal law enforcement officers or anyone else in local or state enforcement wanting to take their courses. They call it FLET-C but all us locals refer to it as Flea Tech. Bunch of really great guys working there from all branches with lots of experience and education that I've known over the years while they were temporarily assigned there as instructors. And some of the locals working there as role players and instructors as well.
 
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