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Posted on 08/31/2003 6:08:01 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
Posted on Fri, Aug. 29, 2003
Scream scary, but it's only a parrot parody
Associated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. - A parrot's parody of a damsel in distress caused quite a commotion.
Tucson police and firefighters broke down a door after being called to a house and hearing a woman's screams coming from inside.
But police soon realized that the sounds weren't coming from a woman in woe.
"The parrot's screams sounded identical to those of a distressed adult female," Officer Andrew Davies said in his report.
The ruckus was the work of Oscar, a 2-year-old yellow-naped Amazon parrot.
Police found him intermittently making laughing and screaming sounds as he sat inside his large white cage.
The mix-up began on Saturday when a 911-hang up call was made from the house.
Police arrived to find the house locked with bars on the windows.
Hearing what they thought was a woman's voice, police called the fire department. Crews used a pry bar and a battering ram to get through a door.
Police asked a neighbor to call Dana Pannell, the homeowner. The neighbor said he was home at the time but didn't make the emergency call.
Although the dialer remains a mystery, the parrot is seemingly off the hook.
Pannell's wife, Judy, said Oscar doesn't know how to use a phone.
But Oscar - named after the Sesame Street character because of his sometimes foul moods - does have his talents, she said.
"He sings in Spanish," she said.
So who made the 911 phone call from the house? That is one cagey bird...
They arrived and thinking the worst broke down the door.
What they found was a pot of collard greens cooking on the stove. The elderly lady walked in from church while they were there.
( If you've never smelled collards cooking , you have not missed a thing. They taste great, similar to very mild turnip greens but it's best to cook them outside.)
Reminds me of the first time I cooked collars greens. My husband came home from work and accused me of not cleaning the cats litter box. I informed him that wasn't the litter box it was his dinner.
The stuff is good for you, though!
But if he keeps that up, he might be an ex-parrot ;)
LOL!
hehe ! Them pesky parrots ! ...
LOL
I was a 'ride along' with the local police one night.
We got an assist call to help another officer on a breakin in progress.
A woman called to report someone breaking into her house.
We took off 'code 3' quite a few miles from the scene.
We got about 1/2way there when it was discovered by the officer on the scene that an errant balloon left over from a birthday party was caught in the ceiling fan.
And did the police hear loud screams coming from your house afterwards? :)
hehe ! My cousin is a retired Dallas Policeman. He has shared a few interesting stories with us ...
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