Man arrested after picking a fight with his pet parrot on a Michigan street

Fox News.com ^ | 9/22/2010 | Fox News

[mmanager]

Must have been a hell of a fight with three 911 calls.

[JRios1968]

It really was pining for the fjords...

[dblshot]

Must have been a hell of a fight with three 911 calls
And the parrot made two of them, ARRWK!

[Oztrich Boy]

Parrot shouldn’t have talked back to him.

[dblshot]

The guy must have been one of those street people who go nuts when they hear voices.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Slightly older thread (AP source) wih many humorous contributions.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2594366/posts

[Winstons Julia]

so, he’s not going to get his parrot back, is he?

[therightliveswithus]

Only in a blue state

[Russ]

The parrot wasn’t dead, it was only sleeping...

[HerrBlucher]

At least it wasn’t a chicken.

[TexasRepublic]

At least he didn’t beat his monkey.

[a fool in paradise]

$10 says the parrot was winning the argument.

[mmanager]

I did a search but the titles from A/P and Fox are different.

[libstripper]

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.

[BigEdLB]

[sodpoodle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE

The Dead Parrot sketch. (Monty Python)

[clearcarbon]

Parrots must have a strong lobby.

[MrB]

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!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

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.

[Deaf Smith]

Lesson learned?

Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.