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Woman arrested carrying 266 dead parrots
reuters UK ^ | Tue 18 May, 2004 17:56 | Tansa Musa

Posted on 05/18/2004 5:35:43 PM PDT by Rebelbase

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon has arrested a Nigerian woman who was found carrying more than 200 dead parrots and rare Bannerman Turaco feathers, a customs official says.

The central African country has recently stepped up its fight against the poaching and killing of endangered species.

Officers stopped Meimuna Ahmed while she was on a bus with 266 embalmed grey parrots and 597 red Bannerman Turaco feathers in the northwestern town Bamenda.

"The red feathers must have been extracted from some 60 to 70 Bannerman Turacos, given that each of the birds has about 10 red feathers," Edwin Nuvaga Fongod, chief of customs in the North West province, told Reuters by phone from Bamenda.

The 41-year-old woman planned to sell the birds and the highly prized feathers, used in black magic rites and to decorate community leaders, in Nigeria, he said.

If convicted, she faces one year in prison and a fine of up to 10 million CFA francs (10,000 pounds) under the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species, to which Cameroon is a signatory, Fongod said.

Conservationists estimate there are 2,500 to 10,000 Bannerman Turacos left in the rapidly disappearing mountainous rain forest around Cameroon's Lake Oku.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deadparrots; prettypolly
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If only the dead could talk..........
1 posted on 05/18/2004 5:35:44 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

I allways wondered where buffalo wings came from.


2 posted on 05/18/2004 5:37:28 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Don't vote, president Kerry will thank you for it.)
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To: Rebelbase
found carrying more than 200 dead parrots

Just to head it off: They weren't dead, they were merely pining for the fjords...

3 posted on 05/18/2004 5:37:50 PM PDT by Clint Williams
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To: Rebelbase
,,, he's f*#&ing snuffed it mate. He's an ex parrot!

- Monty Python

4 posted on 05/18/2004 5:38:28 PM PDT by shaggy eel
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To: Rebelbase

They are just sleeping.


5 posted on 05/18/2004 5:39:26 PM PDT by StriperSniper (Welcome home Thomas Hamill !!!)
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To: Clint Williams
Just to head it off...

Not a chance.

6 posted on 05/18/2004 5:39:54 PM PDT by southernnorthcarolina (I've told you a billion times: stop exaggerating!)
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To: Clint Williams

Lovely plummage, ay!?


7 posted on 05/18/2004 5:39:59 PM PDT by visualops
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To: Clint Williams

They've joined the choir celestial!!


8 posted on 05/18/2004 5:40:48 PM PDT by muir_redwoods
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To: cripplecreek
I allways wondered where buffalo wings came from.

Buffalo, of course! (But not from Bison, which is not a city in NY, but you'll find it in SD, KS, MT, OK and WV!)

9 posted on 05/18/2004 5:40:58 PM PDT by Clint Williams
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To: shaggy eel; Rebelbase

10 posted on 05/18/2004 5:41:53 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist
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To: RightWingAtheist

He's dead Jim.


11 posted on 05/18/2004 5:42:25 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Don't vote, president Kerry will thank you for it.)
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To: Rebelbase
If convicted, she faces one year in prison and a fine of up to 10 million CFA francs (10,000 pounds)

How much is that in money?

12 posted on 05/18/2004 5:44:11 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
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To: Rebelbase
Officers stopped Meimuna Ahmed while she was on a bus with 266 embalmed grey parrots

"Ack!"


13 posted on 05/18/2004 5:44:37 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: Rebelbase


"Arrr. I was wonderin where me parrots went to!"
14 posted on 05/18/2004 5:44:58 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Liberalism is the end result of too many people peeing in the gene pool.)
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To: concordKIWI

,,, trading up from "I want some red ribbons for a blue lady" to "I want some red feathers for some black magic." Nigerian eMAIL scams can only get you so far.


15 posted on 05/18/2004 5:46:30 PM PDT by shaggy eel
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To: Rebelbase

Moose bites?


16 posted on 05/18/2004 5:47:46 PM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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To: shaggy eel
A customer enters a pet shop.

Customer: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.

(The owner does not respond.)

C: 'Ello, Miss?
Owner: What do you mean "miss"?
C: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
O: We're closin' for lunch.
C: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
O: Oh yes, the, uh, the Norwegian Blue...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?
C: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
O: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.
C: Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
O: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, isn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
C: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
O: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
C: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up! (shouting at the cage)
'Ello, Mister Polly Parrot! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for you if you show...(owner hits the cage)
O: There, he moved!
C: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the cage!
O: I never!!
C: Yes, you did!
O: I never, never did anything...
C: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO POLLY!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!
(Takes parrot out of the cage and thumps its head on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
C: Now that's what I call a dead parrot.
O: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
C: STUNNED?!?
O: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! Norwegian Blues stun easily, major.
C: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.
O: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.
C: PININ' for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?
O: The Norwegian Blue prefers kippin' on it's back! Remarkable bird, innit, squire? Lovely plumage!
C: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
(pause)
O: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!
C: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this bird wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
O: No no! 'E's pining!
C: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
(pause)
O: Well, I'd better replace it, then.
(he takes a quick peek behind the counter)
O: Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots.
C: I see. I see, I get the picture.
O: I got a slug.
(pause)
C: (sweet as sugar) Pray, does it talk?
O: Nnnnot really.
C: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT, IS IT?!!???!!?
O: Look, if you go to my brother's pet shop in Bolton, he'll replace the parrot for you.
C: Bolton, eh? Very well.


17 posted on 05/18/2004 5:47:53 PM PDT by Archangelsk (15 out of 19. The House of Saud must be driven into the desert.)
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To: Clint Williams
Just to head it off . . .

Stop wisecracks, says judge at Hague dead parrot trial

18 posted on 05/18/2004 5:49:45 PM PDT by dighton
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To: Rebelbase

And now, for something completely different......


19 posted on 05/18/2004 5:49:51 PM PDT by Cagey
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To: Archangelsk
Mate, this bird wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it!

,,, carve that in concrete! Love it.

20 posted on 05/18/2004 5:50:05 PM PDT by shaggy eel
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