Peruvian Police Won't Stop Doing Bits When Arresting Criminals, Busted Drug Traffickers in Giant Adorable Capybara Mascot Costume

I know three things about Peru:

1. Machu Picchu
2. It's legal to carry up to 2 grams of cocaine for personal use

3. The police wear hilarious costumes when making drug busts 

So I'm inclined to think they kind of rule as a country. Regarding the mascot costume drug busts, Peru has a special police group, "Escuadron Verde", who specifically carry out these festive holiday themed arrests. I'm not sure why they settled on Capybara for Valentine's Day, but that's what they went with. I'm not sure why they do it. I've been seeing these videos for years now. Just a couple months for Christmas, I blogged about the Peruvian Grinch taking down a drug ring.

At Halloween, they dressed up as Deadpool and Wolverine to seize thousands of individually packaged bags of drugs from a different drug family. 

When I first started seeing these viral arrests, I assumed the reason behind them had something to do with the element of surprise. That they were trying to catch these criminals off guard. But it's happened so many times now that you'd think drug dealers across Peru would be ready for it. Any halfway aware drug dealer who looks out his window to see Big Bird parading down the street must know how fucked he is.

At this point, I think this Peruvian Police force is just running festive holiday drug busts for the love of the game. I suppose it draws more attention to the drug bust, which is good PR. And it makes getting busted for selling drugs all the more humiliating when you're standing in front of your house being handcuffed by an adorable Capybara. But above all else, I think they're just doing it for the love of bits. As anybody who's spent an extended period of time doing the same boring job will tell you, you gotta break up the monotony every now and then. El Escuadron Verde isn't just your humdrum, run of the mill, drug busting police force. They like to have fun there. 

It's all fun and games until the drug dealers shoot back and the neighborhood children see the PAW Patrol scattered about the pavement. Or have to watch Bluey taken out of the trap house on a stretcher. But until that inevitably happens, keep up the hilarious work, Peru. Really good stuff. If you're looking for suggestions, aside from what I've already mentioned, here are characters I'd like to see you arrest criminals in some day.

- Ninja Turtles
- Heath Ledger style Joker
- Any Sesame Street/Muppets character (Elmo, Cookie Monster, Mr Snuffleupagus)
- Samuri (can use sword if they fight back)
- 2-man horse costume where one person is the head and the other person is the ass

- Mr. Peanut
- Sumo wrestler blow up fat suit
- Sports mascots (Stanford Tree, Phillie Phanatic, Gritty, Oregon Duck)
- McGruff The Crime Dog
- The Village People
- Fast food chain mascots (Ronald McDonald, Grimace, Colonel Sanders, the creepy king from the old Burger King commercials)

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If you want to take things to the next level, start getting some fun booby traps involved. The more Looney Tunes/Scooby Doo-esque the better. Get them to come outside and drop a big heavy net on their head. Cover the pavement outside their door with marbles and chase them out the front door so they fall on their ass. Point a prop gun at their face, then pull the trigger and a little flag that says "BANG!" pops out. Their lives will flash before their eyes, you'll all have a good laugh, and the video will get a ton of valuable clicks for your department. And no matter what you do, nobody can be mad at you for completely humiliating them because since they deal drugs they basically aren't even people. Go crazy, Peru.