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« Todd Jarrett shoots 1000 rounds in 10 minutes | Main | Events in Maryland »

Now, this is a bit embarrassing...

Posted by David Hardy · 6 September 2008 04:13 PM

Tho there was probably no other wise course of action:

Police hear a woman crying for help from inside a house, knocks at the door yield only more cries for help, they break in to rescue her ....

And find a cockatoo , giving the cries in its owner's voice. A while back it got her in trouble with Child Protective Services, while I was practicing an infant's cries while she was away.

UPDATE: there is a fun type of embarrassment. (Just as friend asked if the stuff at Blackwater wasn't a bit crazy, I replied "yes, but the fun type of crazy..") I'm sure the officers involved will be sitting in an FOP hall ten years from now and be bringing their listeners to their knees with "we found nobody inside, and were wondering where she went when the parrot, I swear the ____ing parrot, yells out 'Help me!'" And they'll be carrying copies of their reports to answer guys who say this has got to be BS.

3 Comments | Leave a comment

vinnie | September 6, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply

screaming parrot+toddler who likes to "flush" things+cordless phone with one touch emergency feature= Sheriffs deputy visit+ trip to store for new phone.

Been there, done that.

Dave Dudley | September 7, 2008 8:29 AM | Reply

...No David, embarrassing is NOT busting down the door. Embarrassing and derelict. You can't blame cops for not checking out help calls, them blame them for checking them out and being wrong. They're not there just to crush crime. Had this been a neighbor, or a fireman who busted in to answer a help call, it still would have been the right thing to do.

Don Gwinn | September 7, 2008 2:13 PM | Reply

You may have missed the humor here, Dave. David wasn't complaining that they knocked down the door; he was just imagining the look on their faces when it turned out to be a parrot!

It's practically a Lawdog Tale.

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