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A complicated budgerigar crime ring has been thwarted after a five-year investigation by New South Wales and federal police. Witnesses say the budgie gang, made up entirely of blue and green birds, has been terrorising the inner-city Sydney suburb of Kings Cross for more than twenty years.

A spokesperson for the minister for crime has told the news that the gang, also known in underground circles as “The Flock”, grew out of a prostitution and protection business started in the early eighties by crime budgie and general law breaker Harry “The Hatchet”, a male budgerigar from the South Western deserts of upper outer Queensland.

Harry "The Hatchet"

Officials say the crime organisation was highly structured, running multiple businesses specialising in extortion, identity theft, gambling and budgie smuggling. The businesses were administred by smaller satellite groups responsible for looking after dealings; and communication to mob leadership was performed secretly and indirectly through an “underboss”. A number of interrogated “footsoldier birds” claim they never got to meet The Hatchet, saying that only the most trusted members of the flock were allowed to communicate directly with the kingpin.

A Flock Footsoldier

The police have had the organisation under surveillance for the past five years, studying the birds’ comings and goings, paying particular attention to suspicious migratory patterns. Late last week the police pounced on the flock leader’s mansion in Mosman, arresting 63 birds. Trials will begin immediately.

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