A combined police and army team carried out a dawn raid on three different pantanal ranches after they had been alerted to various shortfallings. Astounded tourists at Pantanal Discovery were woken at 7am by a helicopter and police trucks swarming the area. All evidence of the raid was recorded, including the waking and questioning of 2 dazzed english toursist who looked very suspicoius as they ran out of there room upon hearing the commotion. Even though they had only a nightie and boxer shorts on, with hair all over the place, they seemed to manage well with the questioning with a video camera in there face.
After the owner was unable to produce a sufficient licence, and hadn´t kept the property to sufficent standards, he was forced to make an apologetic speech to all employees (the tourists were ignored) before being carted off by the police. During this a national news channel had gotten wind of the breaking story and arrived on the scene to interview the main players.
Tim Bird from London, England was questioned about his stay at the ranch, he retorted that he had had a fine time on the ranch but felt for his fellow pantanal vistors who had just arrived as they would lose out. When questioned about the conditions of the ranch, Mr Bird replied that he felt the conditions were great and much better than those enjoyed in Bolivia . All tourists were then driven off in police vans to a neighbouring ranch for... lunch! Mr bird and guest were then given a police escort to the bus station, where they left for Bonito, as was planned before the whole incident!
The ranch owner confessing all to the camera and police
Mr Tim Bird being preped for the Big interview
lights, camera, action!
The chopper swoops in again
The boys in blue getting ready to cart the bad boys to the nick!
