11-30-2006, 11:17 AM
Quote:Last week it was an escaped emu, this week it's a huge parrot. German police are having trouble with big birds this month. Hikers alerted police about an enormous colored bird sitting in a forest. A violent, deafening struggle ensued...
A giant escaped parrot has been caught by police after a violent struggle in which it tore up the uniform of one of the arresting officers, police said...
Two policemen dispatched to the scene caught sight of the parrot, which was about 90 centimeters (about three feet) long. "He didn't say anything, and definitely didn't provide his name and address. He just screeched deafeningly," said a spokesman for the Walldürn police...
The most important part of the story:
Quote:Neither the parrot nor the policemen were hurt in the fracas.
full article and photo of the perpetrator: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,15...05,00.html
