Story of the week

[El Presidente]

...just bloody brilliant 

 

 

Pigeon suspected of being Chinese spy released by Indian police after eight months in detention - ABC News

Pigeon suspected of being Chinese spy released by Indian police after eight months in detention

Posted Thu 1 Feb 2024 at 11:44pmThursday 1 Feb 2024 at 11:44pm

With police permission, the pigeon is released by doctors.(Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times via AP)

In short: A pigeon has been released in India after being held in detention for eight months on suspicion of being a Chinese spy.

• The animal turned out to be a racing bird from Taiwan which had escaped and travelled to India.

Indian police cleared a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after eight months in detention and released it into the wild Tuesday, news agency Press Trust of India reported.

The pigeon's ordeal began in May last year when it was captured near a port in Mumbai with two rings tied to its legs, carrying words that appeared to be Chinese.

Police suspected it was involved in espionage and took it in, later sending it to Mumbai's Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals.

Eventually, it turned out the pigeon was an open-water racing bird from Taiwan that had escaped and made its way to India.

With police permission, the bird was transferred to the Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, whose doctors set it free on Tuesday.

Mumbai police could not be reached for comment.

It is not the first time a bird has come under police suspicion in India.

In 2020, police in Indian-controlled Kashmir released a pigeon belonging to a Pakistani fisherman after a probe found that the bird, which had flown across the heavily militarised border between the nuclear-armed nations, was not a spy.

In 2016, another pigeon was taken into custody after it was found with a note that threatened Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

AP

 

[BoliDan]

Oh man, I hope they release the interrogation videos.

[Nevrknow]

To quote James Gregory. It's a bird. It's a bird. It's a damn bird! 😂

[Chibearsv]

Eight months?  And they were hoping to learn…what exactly?

[rckymtn22]

Where is the jail booking photo? 

[SirVantes]

Bet he made a deal. Stool pigeon. 

[SirVantes]

1 hour ago, Chibearsv said:

Eight months?  And they were hoping to learn…what exactly?

Whether he was really plotting a coo...coo...

[Li Bai]

It seems suspicious though...

 

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[ha_banos]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush after all!

[Dozerhead]

I thought he would sing like a canary.

[Puros Y Vino]

Reminds me of this classic bit.  "Sandwich On the Orient Express"  RIP John Candy.

 

[BrightonCorgi]

They're suspicions were not so far fetched.

[TacoSauce]

6 minutes ago, BrightonCorgi said:

They're suspicions were not so far fetched.

You mean their "suspidgeons?"