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Police forced their way into an apartment in Germany after hearing what they described as a "child-like voice" calling for its mother and father. Instead of an abandoned toddler, they found a cheerful and very talkative parrot.
The woman who called the police on Tuesday morning sounded worried. She said she had been trying for several days to speak to a neighbor but no one had answered the door when she knocked, even though she could hear children's voices inside.
Police dispatched to the flat in the western German town of Ibbenbüren heard a distinct child-like voice calling "Mama," "Papa" and "Mama Come."
"Police measures were launched because it couldn't be ruled out that an accident had occurred," the police said in a statement. The officers called the landlord and summoned the fire brigade and an ambulance. .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/parrot-confounds-german-police-by-sounding-like-an-abandoned-child-a-876527.html
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Those sly parrots !! (Original Post)
marmar
Jan 2013
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)1. The Trashmen were right
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)3. You, sir. TIME OUT!
NOW!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)2. That's hilarious!
They thought it was a child, and it was just a cheerful parrot. LOL
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)4. Avians can be tricksters
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