Two years ago we heard about the drug smuggling pigeons at a Colombian jail, and now comes news of a cat heavily implicated in assisting a planned break-out from a Brazilian prison!! The cat was caught red-handed on New Years day! The arch-criminal has so far refused to speak and all 263 prisoners are suspect. It is not known if the cat is the ring leader or merely an accomplice.
It has been over 5o years since since I read Baroness Emmuska Orczy’s novel of the arch prison escape arranger during the French Revolution – The Scarlet Pimpernel – but this verse is for forever etched in my memory:
We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell?
That demmed, elusive Pimpernel.
White Pimpernel: Reuters
Reuters: A cat carrying a saw and a mobile phone was “detained” as it entered a prison gate in northeast Brazil, Brazilian media reported on Saturday.
Prison guards were surprised when they saw a white cat crossing the main gate of the prison, its body wrapped with tape. A closer look showed the feline also carried drills, an earphone, a memory card, batteries and a phone charger.
All 263 detainees in the prison of Arapiraca, a city of 215,000 people in the state of Alagoas, are considered suspect in the plot, which is being investigated by local police.
“It’s tough to find out who’s responsible for the action as the cat doesn’t speak,” a prison spokesperson told local paper Estado de S.Paulo.
The cat was taken to an animal disease center to receive medical care.
The incident took place on New Year’s day but was first reported by national media on Saturday
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