Parrot Detained for Yelling 'Police' to Warn Its Owners About a Drug Raid

&gt;<i>The cops brought the parrot back to the station, but so far, the bird is keeping his beak shut around police. A vet named Alexandre Clark told a local Brazilian journalist that police have been unable to get him to repeat the warnings he shrieked out during the raid—or squawk anything at all.</i><p>Sounds like the bird is flexing its rights. (I assume Brazil, like America, respects the right to remain silent)

&gt; Apparently, the cops got tired of trying to wring some salient information from the uncooperative bird, so they turned him over to a nearby zoo, where he&#x27;ll presumably get to do normal bird shit and not have to spend his days cawing about drug busts anymore. We respect your loyalty, though, buddy. Enjoy your new and better life away from the drug trade.<p>I don&#x27;t know why, but I like it when lighter news articles use a tongue in cheek writing style where you know the author is amused about what they are writing.

Acting as &#x27;lookout&#x27; is only quasi-illigal, but it raises an interesting question: if a human trains an animal to do something illegal, does blame fall on the animal or the human?<p>For example, many pit bulls who attack or maim people these days get put down by animal control. If a court could prove that an animal had been trained&#x2F;conditioned (by a proven guilty defendant) to commit the offending act, would said animal still be facing death?

Seperating birds bonded to people is very cruel. This creature was socialized in a very strange fashion and can not bond to other birds even of the same kind.

What is the parrot being charged with, exactly? It is not <i>illegal</i> to warn someone that police are nearby, much as I&#x27;m sure they would like it to be.

I&#x27;m sure the police will get that bird to sing what it knows.

Reminds me of the bit in Twin Peaks when the cops take in a Parrot that witnessed a crime. Someone murders the Parrot to stop it from talking.