Questão 48 - UNEMAT 1° Dia 2010/1

Texto III

BRAZILIAN PRISONERS USE PIGEONS TO SMUGGLE IN MOBILE PHONES

 

 

[5] Inmates have devised an innovative way to

smuggle in mobile phones into a prison

farm in Brazil – carrier pigeons. Guards at

the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the south

[10] eastern city of Sorocaba noticed a pigeon

resting on an electric wire with a small cloth

bag tied to one of its legs last week. "The

guards nabbed the bird after luring it down

with some food and discovered

[15] components of a small cellphone inside the

bag," police investigator Celso Soramiglio

said. A day later, another pigeon was

spotted dragging a similar bag inside the

prison's exercise yard. Inside the bag was

[20] the mobile phone's charger, Soramiglio

said. The birds were apparently bred and

raised inside the prison, smuggled out,

outfitted with the mobile phone parts and

then released to fly back. "Pigeons

[25] instinctively fly back home, always," the

investigator said. Soramiglio said that police

have not discovered who raised the

pigeons nor the name of the inmate who

was going to receive the mobile phone, but

[30] that he hoped the telephone carrier would

provide the information.

Fonte: http://www.guardian.co.uk (Acessado em 14/09/09)

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