NP parrot

Doug Millison DMillison at ftmg.net
Thu Jun 7 11:30:44 CDT 2001


This reminded me of the parrots in Vineland...

Firemen searched an office building for an hour for a trapped parrot only to
find the noise was coming from a computer screensaver.

Crews were called to the West Midlands House building in Willenhall after a
security guard raised the alarm. The guard thought that the distressed cries
of 'Who's a pretty boy' were coming from a gap in the roof.

It wasn't until firemen kicked down an office door that they found the PC
parrot on a computer that had been left on overnight.

"It was a screen saver which had its volume turned right up and there was a
parrot squawking," West Midlands Fire Service Sub Officer Dave Hingley told
Guardian Unlimited.

"There were others animals too, elephants and all sorts but it was the
parrot we heard."


See this story on the web at
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_318323.html




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