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 chicken in query was apparently picked up by regulation enforcement in India eight friggin’ months in the past after a number of safety guards determined that the chicken seemed suspicious.
The New York Times notes that the chicken was “caught lurking” at a global port in Mumbai. Members of a particular regulation enforcement group, the Central Industrial Security Force, determined that the chicken is likely to be as much as no good and the unlucky animal was drummed into what presumably handed for chicken jail on the native station.
The motive that the law enforcement officials discovered the chicken suspicious was that it was outfitted with particular rings on its legs, 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 earlier than (the truth is, the CIA has a bizarre historical past of utilizing pigeons to spy on individuals). That mentioned, it appears considerably protected to imagine that the peak of animal espionage is prior to now.
The rings and the chip had been finally despatched to a forensic lab for evaluation, whereas the chicken was despatched to remain at a Mumbai veterinary hospital. Eventually, police bought the outcomes of the {hardware} evaluation again and located that the microchip in query tracked the chicken’s location. After analyzing the chicken’s journey patterns, the investigator tasked with investigating the chicken 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 chicken’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.