A pigeon that was suspected of being a Chinese undercover agent has been cleared of wrongdoing and launched following a interval of months-long captivity. Yes, you learn that proper and, no, I’m not fucking with you.
The chook in query was apparently picked up by legislation enforcement in India eight friggin’ months in the past after a number of safety guards determined that the chook regarded suspicious.
The New York Times notes that the chook was “caught lurking” at a global port in Mumbai. Members of a particular legislation enforcement staff, the Central Industrial Security Force, determined that the chook is likely to be as much as no good and the unlucky animal was drummed into what presumably handed for chook jail on the native station.
The purpose that the law enforcement officials discovered the chook suspicious was that it was outfitted with particular rings on its legs, considered one of which was embedded with a microchip. The pigeon additionally had writing on its legs that was etched in Chinese cursive. Birds have been used for espionage before (in truth, the CIA has a weird history of utilizing pigeons to spy on individuals). That mentioned, it appears considerably secure to imagine that the peak of animal espionage is up to now.
The rings and the chip had been in the end despatched to a forensic lab for evaluation, whereas the chook was despatched to remain at a Mumbai veterinary hospital. Eventually, police acquired the outcomes of the {hardware} evaluation again and located that the microchip in query tracked the chook’s location. After analyzing the chook’s journey patterns, the investigator tasked with investigating the chook determined that it was most likely a misplaced racing pigeon from Taiwan.
Problematically, police by no means went again to the veterinary hospital to inform the organization that the chook’s case had been closed. It was solely simply freed this week, after employees from the hospital, together with animal rights activists with PETA India, lobbied the federal government to authorize its launch.
