"Parrot taken into custody by police in Brazil for trying to warn drug dealers of raid"

Via NBC News

A parrot who warned two alleged drug dealers in Brazil that police were coming was taken into custody after it almost foiled an undercover drug raid, authorities said.

When the green-and-white bird spotted officers Tuesday at its owners' Teresina home, the parrot squawked "Mama, Police!" in Portuguese, according to the local outlet Oliberal.com.

Despite the bird's efforts to tip off the owners, a man and woman were arrested, the outlet reports. Drugs, including crack and marijuana, were also found at the property as well as large amounts of money.

The parrot, who police did not name, has reportedly continued to show its loyalty to its owners and is refusing to sing like a canary. The Guardian reports that a local journalist said the bird won't talk to officers and "hasn't made a sound."

The parrot, who authorities believe was trained to spot police cars, is being kept at a zoo in Teresina, Oliberal.com reports.

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Are you watching the Olympics? If not, why not?

Zika won't sedate athlete sexual appetite: prediction

"Athletes given 450,000 condoms at Rio 2016 Olympics, three times more than in London"

• The increase can be explained by provision of 100,000 female condoms
• There is no suggestion that the increase is related to the Zika virus
• Lubricant will also be available to athletes and staff - 175,000 packets
• Condoms available from a clinic or vending machines in Athletes' Village

"Rio Olympics could spark 'full blown global health disaster', say Harvard scientists"

He said: “While Brazil's Zika inevitably will spread globally, given enough time, viruses always do - it helps nobody to speed that up.

"In particular, it cannot possibly help when an estimated 500,000 foreign tourists flock into Rio for the Games, potentially becoming infected, and returning to their homes where both local Aedes mosquitoes and sexual transmission can establish new outbreaks.

“All it takes is one infected traveller, a few viral introductions of that kind, in a few countries, or maybe continents, would make a full-blown global health disaster.”

'I do, I do, I do:' Brazilian female trio get hitched

"Three's a crowd? Not in Brazil"

The happy trio, who reportedly have shared a bed for years and say they want to raise a child, took an oath of love in early October in the presence of Rio de Janeiro notary public Fernanda de Freitas Leitao.

"This union is not just symbolic," because it defines "how they intend to have children," attorney Leitao said.

The lovers -- a businesswomen and a dentist who are both 32 and a 34-year-old office manager -- have been together for three years and wish to remain anonymous. Despite salacious media speculation about their supposed love life, they are in fact shy, their lawyer said.

I predict a thorny cake issue.

"Since we started we can eat what we want, buy the clothes we want"

"But look, why feel bad? We're not here because we like it, but it's a profession and we're not going to be grumpy and be treating people badly. If we're there working, we'll be smiling. In any profession you need to be like that..."

To reach the zonas, clients and workers alike must pass by the bouncer sitting on a bar stool on the side of the street, go through a metal detector and ascend flights of stairs; what awaits is a like a cross between a run-down prison and a hostel even the earthiest backpacker would turn away from. The floors are bare concrete, while the corridor extends past door after door into cell-like rooms where women lie. There, a girl just out of her teens confirms it's safe before noting: "It's rare but sometimes men rape."

Brazil

Okay, now when I get off, pull up. Pull forward because when I come out, I'm going to be really hustling hustling everyday I'm hustling.

Hahahaha

Remember, pull up and leave a space. Pull forward and be ready to go. And keep the engine running.

Okay hurry up.