Pigeon Suspected of Being Chinese language Spy Launched From Captivity

A pigeon that was suspected of being a Chinese language undercover agent has been cleared of wrongdoing and launched following a interval of months-long captivity. Sure, 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 seemed suspicious.

The New York Instances notes that the chook was “caught lurking” at a global port in Mumbai. Members of a particular legislation enforcement group, the Central Industrial Safety Pressure, determined that the chook could be as much as no good and the unlucky animal was drummed into what presumably handed for chook jail on the native station.

The rationale that the law enforcement officials discovered the chook suspicious was that it was outfitted with particular rings on its legs, one in all which was embedded with a microchip. The pigeon additionally had writing on its legs that was etched in Chinese language cursive. Birds have been used for espionage before (in actual fact, the CIA has a weird history of utilizing pigeons to spy on individuals). That mentioned, it appears considerably protected to imagine that the peak of animal espionage is up to now.

The rings and the chip have been in the end despatched to a forensic lab for evaluation, whereas the chook was despatched to remain at a Mumbai veterinary hospital. Finally, police obtained 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 in all probability a misplaced racing pigeon from Taiwan.

Problematically, police by no means went again to the veterinary hospital to inform the group that the chook’s case had been closed. It was solely simply freed this week, after workers from the hospital, together with animal rights activists with PETA India, lobbied the federal government to authorize its launch.