Posted on 09/22/2010 1:29:34 PM PDT by mmanager
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A 49-year-old Jackson man has been arrested in Ann Arbor following a fight with the pet parrot carried in his backpack. Police told Annarbor.com for a story Wednesday that witnesses reported the colorful bird was shaken so violently that its feathers were scattered.
Three 911 calls were made following the Tuesday night incident. Lt. Renee Bush said the parrot was "squawking loudly" when officers arrived.
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It really was pining for the fjords...
Parrot shouldn’t have talked back to him.
The guy must have been one of those street people who go nuts when they hear voices.
Slightly older thread (AP source) wih many humorous contributions.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2594366/posts
so, he’s not going to get his parrot back, is he?
Only in a blue state
The parrot wasn’t dead, it was only sleeping...
At least it wasn’t a chicken.
At least he didn’t beat his monkey.
$10 says the parrot was winning the argument.
I did a search but the titles from A/P and Fox are different.
A number of years ago an article from an Australian paper was posted here about a fight a man got into with his pet rock python. Seems he was carting the quite docile six foot snake along and started beating it against walls. The snake took umbrage at this, wrapped itself around his neck, and started to squeeze. He didn’t win a well-deserved Darwin Award only because some onlookers removed the snake. The snake apparently lived happily ever after, being turned over to the animal welfare people.
This is better when the punchline is delivered in “sign language”, but...
Back a few years ago there was a man with one eye that purchased a talking parrot in a covered cage and every time the man would lift up the covering the parrot would say, “F’ YOU ONE EYE!”, having this go on all the time the man tried to teach the parrot different words repeatedly yet the parrot would consistently say, “F’ YOU ONE EYE” ,
finally the man got fed up and grabbed the parrot and threw him in the freezer and left on a month vacation. After the vacation the man came back and realized he left the parrot in the freezer the whole time!
Rushing back to check on the parrot he opened the door to find the parrot frozen to death with his wing covering his eye and the other claw giving the finger!
I wasn’t calling out yours as a dupe, that’s why I sourced AP.
I was just letting you know that the silly jokes had already started on another thread and you might want to head over there for more chuckles.
Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.
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