Animals do the darnedest things: Pirate parrot attacks
| September 11, 2009 | 2:01 PM
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Captain Jack Sparrow would be proud.
A parrot that appeared in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie has attacked a police officer at a ferry dock in Dover, England.
The bird’s owner was pulled over for driving with the 3-foot macaw perched on her shoulder in true pirate bird fashion, and for letting it fly around inside her vehicle.
As it turns out, the woman is a bit of a pirate herself. Police arrested her after they found out that she is banned from driving. Authorities impounded her vehicle with the parrot still inside, and the bird repeatedly pecked and scratched an officer as he drove it to the impound lot.
The parrot appeared in the 2003 movie The Curse of the Black Pearl, starring Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley.
These celebrities. They get a little fame, and maybe a beak full of rum, and it all goes to their head.
Read more at London’s Telegraph.
More tales of animals doing the darnedest things:
- In Brazil, a photo of a flock of birds sitting on wires has inspired the notes of a song. Read more and hear the music at myfoxdc.com.
- In South Africa, a carrier pigeon named Winston turned out to be faster at delivering data than the country’s leading Internet provider. Read more at London’s Telegraph.
- Speaking of speeding animals, a cheetah named Sarah at the Cincinnati Zoo has broken the world speed record for land mammals. She covered 100 meters in 6.13 seconds. Read more at cincinnati.com.
- A resilient cat has been found alive in rubble nearly four weeks after a building fire in Ohio. Read more at cincinnati.com.
- On a related note, a dog named Scooby has been rescued after being trapped for up to five days in an Australian cave. Read more at livenews.com.au.
- Maybe this last one is more about people doing the darnedest things. In China, a millionaire paid the equivalent of nearly $600,000 for a dog, a black Tibetan Mastiff named Yangtze River Number Two. Then she ordered a convoy of 30 luxury cars to pick up her and her new pet at the airport. The pooch purchase may have set a record for the world’s most expensive pet dog. Read more at foxnews.com
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