It is at least the third time this story gets on FR. How many talking parrots named Ziggy are there?
Fourth at least!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559617/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1559330/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1559252/posts
They are not identical stories though.
Well it's not as bad as the thirty or so people who posted about dogs and cats used as live sharkbait.
I live in Southern California. I read a while back about a neighborhood that had mockingbirds that would wake them with their loud immitation of the car alarm sound.