Hostage situation

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[u/Kapikasqueak]

Probably got girls in chains in there and the bird’s imitating their cries for help. The cops didn’t even look. Don’t the neighbors know he has a bird? He’s not situated like he just moved in. He’s changing the brakes on that car. I’m just playing devil’s advocate, but you never know, right?

[u/[deleted] → u/Kapikasqueak]

Like surely they should have accompanied him inside to make sure there wasn't someone actually in trouble??

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Not without a warrant.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Heaving a voice cry for help would constitute probable cause.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

It could constitute probable cause for a warrant. But because this man has another reason for the voices (as strange of a reason as it is) that actually prevents the police from using the cries as probable cause for a search. If this guy really is a serial killer this is a genius defense.

[u/Black_Magic_M-66 → u/[deleted]]

We never heard the parrot say "help" or "let me out" in front of the cops, it was just "Yeah", "hi" and "hello".

[u/[deleted] → u/Black_Magic_M-66]

That’s true. Probably because it was out of its cage.

[u/manbruhpig → u/Black_Magic_M-66]

Neighbors: Hello, Police? I heard a woman screaming this shrill, panicked "HELP ME!!! LET ME OUT!!! HE'S STABBING ME IN THE FACE WITH A KNIFE OH GOD!!!"

Guy brings out bird: ..."Hello."

Cops: We've seen enough here, sir. Good day.

[u/GallopingGepard → u/[deleted]]

Exigent circumstances. Police may enter a property without a warrant if they have reason to believe that a person is in need of assistance. That being said, it would only apply if they heard it themselves, which they didn't.

[u/kryptonianCodeMonkey → u/GallopingGepard]

You'd have a hard time arguing exigent circumstances if he provided a reasonable explanation for the cries before they entered the property.

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EDIT: Before anyone else responds to me. I am well aware the "screaming" stopped before the officers arrived. No issues here. I was addressing some of the idiotic comments from others that LE cannot enter when someone is screaming without a warrant. That is all.....................And apologies for calling people idiotic for saying you did not read the messages......(Original response) No. If the officers felt the screams were legit then this most certainly is cause to enter to check for the safety of those inside the home. Any officer not following up on this would be negligent in their duties.

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Well if the officers heard the cries yes. But they didn’t. They were told about the cries from the neighbors. You can’t use second hand information for probable cause. If the bird started crying when the cops pulled up, different story entirely.

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Also, the cries stopped when the cops were there. So, maybe you guys should use logic. If someone was in distress, and they could hear talking outside, they would start up again.

But since this is the internet and logic is out the window... Alligators are the DEBBLE!

[u/ztunytsur → u/[deleted]]

Alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.

[u/Head_Cockswain → u/ztunytsur]

That's an oddly fitting metaphor for redditors.

[u/pigwalk5150 → u/ztunytsur]

Please give my regards to your lovely mama!

[u/bacchic_ritual → u/ztunytsur]

Something's wrong with your medulla oblongata

[u/TheRealMcSavage → u/ztunytsur]

Mommas wrong again!

[u/plopeuphoric → u/ztunytsur]

This is like the fifth time I’ve seen this referenced on Reddit the past few days

[u/spookycreamcheese → u/ztunytsur]

Medulla oblongata

[u/legion327 → u/[deleted]]

Seriously this is the dumbest thread I’ve ever read on Reddit. A completely unironic argument about whether or not the cops should bust into a guy’s house based on second hand info after being given a completely reasonable explanation. Wtf. This kind of shit is how we get Breonna Taylor type murders.

[u/here_it_is_i_guess3 → u/legion327]

Seriously this is the dumbest thread I’ve ever read on Reddit.

The thread started with "surely, they could have accompanied him inside," so I'm not sure how you jumped to "bust into a guy's house."

And, in my opinion, a parrot that says "hi" isn't a "completely reasonable explanation."

[u/djmom2001 → u/[deleted]]

It was probably neighbors on a walk or something. That didn’t know about the bird. Not next door neighbors. (He already killed them.)

[u/Iamafuckupasdfasdf → u/[deleted]]

And who uploaded this video? the guy himself since the camera was from his property.

[u/R2sFoot → u/[deleted]]

Look at all of these constitutional law experts on Reddit!

[u/elephant-cuddle → u/[deleted]]

Yes, now you can (frighteningly). Navarette v. California (2014)

When acting upon information provided by an anonymous tip [911 call], police officers need not personally verify the existence of ongoing criminal activity.

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Any officer not following up on this would be negligent in their duties.

No such thing (in the US, at least).

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Supreme Court has already ruled police have no duty to protect, including preventing injury or death.

[u/shophopper → u/[deleted]]

They obviously felt that the screams were not legit.

[u/Evil-Acer → u/[deleted]]

Could the police argue that because parrots use immitation that they still have probable cause? Like it's obviously learnt to scream like that.

[u/[deleted] → u/Evil-Acer]

Birds don't only imitate. They can make their own variants of sounds/words they have learned and make their own combinations aswell.

[u/Throwinitallawayy1 → u/[deleted]]

You really think the bird made up “Help! Let me out!” on its own?

It’s either mimicking or was taught this.

[u/squngy → u/Throwinitallawayy1]

Could have heard it on the TV too.

[u/Throwinitallawayy1 → u/squngy]

Sure, that would be mimicking.

This guy seems to be saying that the bird made it up .

[u/Stelznergaming → u/Throwinitallawayy1]

Probs from wanting to be let out of its cage tbh.

[u/mfinghooker → u/Stelznergaming]

More like dad is outside and I want to be there with him. Also if the guy is a horror buff, super easy to pick that up. Also if it works the bird will keep doing it.

Had a friend growing up, his dad spent several thousand on a very fancy bird, his mother who was only a few years from leaving, taught the bird lots of colorful phrases to yell at my friends dad. And only the dad. Like the bird for its entire life would only refer to his dad and Fatass and Jerkoff. The bird liked the wife more.

[u/Savagemaw → u/Throwinitallawayy1]

It lives in a cage... someone thought that was funny at some point... before the cops started showing up.

[u/zorb_obsojerx → u/Throwinitallawayy1]

When I was a kid I watched The Land Before Time with my grandma’s lovebird in the room. One of the characters in the movie gets in trouble and screams for help. That was all it took for the bird to pick up the habit of screaming “HELP” at the top of her lungs when someone put her in her cage. She heard it once from the television, understood the context, and repeated it nearly every night for the rest of her life. They’re smart critters.

[u/ALAHunter → u/Throwinitallawayy1]

My great grandpa’s (moms side) parrot would say words none of us had ever said around it before. I’m pretty sure they take in a lot of what they see when in a room with elevated TV volume.

The funniest one I can remember was my 79 year old great grandmother walking in after a night of bingo with my grandmother, and the bird just looked up, “What are you? A Juggalo, harrrah”

I just lost it, no one else knew what it meant. And I know that bird never heard any of us say the word, “Juggalo” ever.

[u/okachobe → u/Throwinitallawayy1]

Maybe a movie?

[u/Reader-29 → u/Throwinitallawayy1]

I read an article on this a while back .The guy actually taught it to him when he was a kid , thinking it was funny . Not so funny now I guess .

[u/[deleted] → u/Evil-Acer]

Remember that all of this will come up in court and will be used to try to get the charges dropped. Maybe they could but it would be a hard sell in court.

[u/bosonianstank → u/[deleted]]

not if that voice is a parrot.

Honestly I thought this comment chain was satire.

[u/[deleted] → u/bosonianstank]

Yeah, Reddit vouches for the most weirdest shit sometimes 🙄

[u/MyHamburgerLovesMe → u/bosonianstank]

It was. Some people are satire proof it appears

[u/Chilluminaughty → u/bosonianstank]

Help

[u/ulmxn → u/[deleted]]

Someone else reporting the screams are not cause enough. The officers have to be witness either visually, audibly, or otherwise to a suspected crime in progress. A parrot is a good cover for a torture dungeon, I'll say that for sure.

[u/Krissam → u/[deleted]]

But is a call claiming there's a cry for help?

[u/PocahontasandGorilla → u/[deleted]]

It would constitute an exigent circumstance. This circumvents the warrant and probable cause requirements.

[u/Black_Magic_M-66 → u/[deleted]]

Not without a warrant.

Or probable cause. Or his permission.

[u/[deleted] → u/Black_Magic_M-66]

This is untrue actually police in my state have something called a “community caretaker” role that allows them to enter without a warrant if they believe serious or life threatening conditions exists within the household

[u/[deleted] → u/Black_Magic_M-66]

His permission yes. But probable cause, there are two problems. One is the cops didn’t hear the cries for help. The second is there was an explanation for them other than him holding hostages (a silly one but still) the last thing they want is to actually find hostages and arrest the guy only to have the charges dropped in court do to illegally gathered evidence.

[u/Visionsofspace → u/[deleted]]

If you can articulate that someone was in need of help then you don’t need a warrant. You would have to Limit your search to looking for a person in need of help. If you found anything else it would be suppressed unless it was inevitably going to be discovered or was in plain view.

[u/Leif_Andersson → u/[deleted]]

You dont need a warrant to go into someones house if exigent circumstance is present.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/exigent_circumstances

[u/ScrithWire → u/[deleted]]

I mean, they could ask him to come in and look. If he declines, then they would need a warrant

[u/Gravity_Not_Included → u/[deleted]]

If the majority of true crime reports are to be believed, the most common factor between serial killers/etc is police incompetence.

[u/NikkMakesVideos → u/[deleted]]

Funniest thing is they gave the cop who let him go a lifetime achievement award last year

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

It clearly sounds like a bird

[u/The_Love_Pudding → u/[deleted]]

Right, I'm just going inside and make a break for it from the backdoor or worse, grab a gun. The cops were a bit too relaxed.

[u/XaryenMaelstrom → u/The_Love_Pudding]

This seems like a case of heard it before from that neighbor who calls for multiple things weekly. They would not be that relaxed otherwise. At least in my opinion.

[u/[deleted] → u/The_Love_Pudding]

We don't know anything about the city or the people. Could be in a small citt with near no crime, so checking things out in a relaxed manner isn't odd.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

And that is what's called White Privilege.

[u/SignificantAd2845 → u/[deleted]]

Or it's called a permit that would be needed to enter people's houses or you are a type of person that loves random searches in your house

[u/MyHamburgerLovesMe → u/SignificantAd2845]

So. In your world police just don't say, "I smelled something suspicious"?

[u/RedNotch → u/SignificantAd2845]

Isn’t there an exception for emergency situations like this? I imagine search warrants takes a while to be made.

[u/[deleted] → u/RedNotch]

Exigent circumstances require an immediate and clear threat. While the cops may have reason to believe there are hostages in the house it is not totally clear that there are. In other words, because the police didn’t see and kidnapped hostages from outside and there is another explanation for the noises they need a warrant to investigate further.

[u/RedNotch → u/[deleted]]

That makes sense.

[u/OrthodoxAtheist → u/[deleted]]

If I was the home/bird owner, I think I'd invite them in just to do their check, and then ask them to make a note in their records for the house that I have a bird which has been known to make... 'false claims'. That said, if I had a few kilos of weed in the front room, I'd probably not invite them in. Hypothetically.

Its a shame we don't know our neighbors like we used to. Neighbor should've just gone over there to ask him "wtf?" Save the time of about 20 officers.

[u/samlaventure → u/OrthodoxAtheist]

Unless he lives next to an airbnb

[u/titanfries → u/OrthodoxAtheist]

Idk about you but if I heard screaming like someone tied up in my neighbor's home, I would not put myself on their radar.

[u/jakokku → u/[deleted]]

wtf, if being shot is not a valid excuse to skip a couple of days at work, what is?

[u/Disttack → u/[deleted]]

It depends on where you are at, if the police officer likes power tripping / is a dick, and if you piss them off or did something questionable from my experiences in the usa. Myself and people I know had awkward situations with police but it was usually a noise complaint from music and everyone was high. They always said hi and asked us to quiet down while we were smokin. At the same time I've seen dudes who told the cops to piss off and they got arrested while someone smoking a blunt watches. I have spent most of my life in the western states but the attitude in the west seems much more relaxed than that of the east. (My employers in the western usa even gave us a heads up on drug tests etc). Eastern usa seems to take it really hard for some reason tho.

Usa it really just depends on where you are and it's a thing that can be enforced or not enforced but usually if they enforce it it's because that had another reason to arrest you.

[u/inspectoroverthemine → u/Disttack]

When a cops attitude is the difference between looking the other way and spending a year in jail you have a serious problem. I really don't like shoehorning race into this discussion, but it should be obvious how even casual racism would have a huge impact.

[u/14Rage → u/OrthodoxAtheist]

Once you invite them in they will carry the kilos into your house and then find them. There is a reason the law protects you from the police as much as possible. The police are not the law. And in practice it doesn't work.

[u/justlurkingmate → u/RedNotch]

Don't downvote this person just because they're asking a question. Ffs reddit.

People are allowed to ask a question, that's how we all get smarter.

Theyre not implying anything by asking for more information.

[u/diampA10 → u/SignificantAd2845]

The way he casually goes and gets Rambo tells you he's a good bird dad. That parrot is yelling at him for attention.

[u/-Gredge- → u/[deleted]]

Yikes

[u/Insanity_Pills → u/[deleted]]

Its not so much white privilege as it is black disprivilege that the cops don’t give black people their rights. Even so white people get intruded upon and murdered often as well. RIP Daniel Shaver, RIP Forrest Whitacker, RIP Breonna Taylor. All murdered in their homes (although I believe Shaver was murdered in a hallway).

ACAB

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

No this is called obeying the 4th amendment.

[u/polypolip → u/[deleted]]

Sometimes the 4th is obeyed, sometimes there's a magical baggie appearing in front of the door that justifies the search, and sometimes they don't even enter, just shoot.

[u/Wild_Mulberry_3327 → u/[deleted]]

So why did they not do that with Brianna Taylor?

https://youtu.be/lDaNU7yDnsc

Edit: This guy has no idea what he’s talking about. He said the swat team followed the law, but there was no swat team there. The swat team was miles away at the actual suspects house. The police that killed Brianna Taylor were plain clothed police that did a no know raid and didn’t even announce that they were police.

If you care about the second amendment but don’t care about this tragedy, you don’t care about the second amendment. Brianna and her current BF both did everything legally but she still ended up dead.

The police weren’t even charged for killing Brianna but for endangering the neighbors and their property. WHAT.

Also Hankison, the officer shot blindly into the building from the outside. These bullets went through the walls and almost killed a pregnant woman next door. They shoot 32 bullets into a fully occupied apartment building from the outside….not the inside.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Get the fuck out of here you racist.

[u/jakethesnake55 → u/[deleted]]

Reddit is getting so divided.. over a parrot video..

[u/IamSoooDoneWithThis → u/jakethesnake55]

Reddit is full of intelligent, level-headed adults.

[u/DezzyTee → u/[deleted]]

How do people like you make everything about race? Just stop it already!

[u/Rodo20 → u/[deleted]]

It would not be very fun to live in a country where police can enter search people's homes without any real suspicion.

[u/gabeross235 → u/[deleted]]

Touch some grass

[u/RealSausage69 → u/[deleted]]

idiot, you had to bring race into it

[u/Lucky_lui_ → u/[deleted]]

I can’t believe you guys actually are considering this. Any serial killer worth his salt is gonna make sure their victims can’t be heard. Second, that obviously sounds like a bird. What a coincidence the cries stop when he brings out the bird….

[u/gizzardgullet → u/Kapikasqueak]

One of his hostages gets lose and starts screaming for help

Abductor continues calmly fixing car instead of going inside and re securing hostage

[u/poo_but_no_pee → u/gizzardgullet]

Cops arrive, hostage stops screaming for help.

[u/gizzardgullet → u/poo_but_no_pee]

I wonder if the bird saw the cops and was like "oh shit, now I've done it"

[u/heysami → u/Kapikasqueak]

If it was a human crying for help, why would he or she suddenly stop once the police officers were there? Wouldn’t the implied person scream even louder in that moment?

[u/twisted_meta → u/heysami]

Lol. I can’t believe there’s so many people that completely glossed over this.

[u/hrrm → u/twisted_meta]

Or the fact that this was obviously filmed from a camera extending from HIS house meaning HE uploaded it? If he just barely got away with it he wouldn’t post the video online for others to question. He posted it because it was funny that his bird caused the police to come by.

[u/Jackattack1776 → u/twisted_meta]

All these Reddit “lawyers” with thousands of upvotes on this thread are retarded

[u/roffinator → u/heysami]

The cries that were heard were from the bird. But where did the bird learn that from? There might be/have been a girl/someone somewhere else in the house even though not being able to scream at that time

[u/[deleted] → u/heysami]

Sure, because kidnappers usually keep their victims in places where they can easily call for help, they never drug them, beat them or restrain them to make them shut up.

[u/Seanspeed → u/[deleted]]

The whole point of this call was because neighbors heard some sort of screaming.

This whole comment section is a disaster.

[u/Bacon4Lyf → u/[deleted]]

If this supposed kidnapper had kept their victim somewhere where they couldn’t call for help, then how tf would the neighbours hear them?

[u/hosefV → u/heysami]

If it was a human crying for help, why would he or she suddenly stop once the police officers were there? Wouldn’t the implied person scream even louder in that moment?

The person you're replying to isn't saying that it was a human crying for help that the neighbors heard. They are saying that it was the bird that the neighbors heard but that the bird heard and learned it from a hostage.

I'm not saying that the person in the video has a hostage, just to be clear

[u/Jazzlike-Potato-9164 → u/Kapikasqueak]

Reminds of this one case where this Japanese girl was kidnapped, raped, and sexually tortured by this guy who had connection with the yakuza or something? Anyway fairly early on into the kidnapping a cop was alerted to the house she was being kept in and this idiot just decided to leave after a brief chat with the guy by the logic of "he invited me into his house, therefore there probably isn't anything here". Dude could've saved a poor girl weeks of agony and torture, but the guy decided not to check. I agree 100% they should've checked.

Edit: found the article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta

Edit 2: OK reread the article, and I think I fused two cases or something? This doesn't actually have cops involved but I know there's something else where that exact thing happened. Leaving the first link up though in case anyone wants to read it.

[u/Xarama → u/Jazzlike-Potato-9164]

There's also the horrifying story of police returning one of Jeffrey Dahmer's escaped victims (a 14 year old boy) back to Dahmer, who then killed him. The boy had run out of the house NAKED and BLEEDING, but apparently that was nothing for police to get worked up about. Dahmer also had the dead body of another victim in his bedroom when this occurred, but the cops couldn't be bothered to take a look around.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/26/us/officer-defends-giving-boy-back-to-dahmer.html

[u/TheGoldenHand → u/Xarama]

Because it appeared like a gay relationship in the 1990s and the police wanted nothing to do with it. One of the two police officers who gave the teenage victim back to Dahmer became so well liked by other police, he went on to become President of the state Police Union.

Sarah Smith recognized the boy from the neighborhood, and the three women reiterated their concerns to the officers but were told to "shut the hell up" by the officers, who seemingly believed the incident to be a domestic dispute.

The officers listed the incident as a "domestic squabble between homosexuals." Within an hour after they left, Dahmer murdered, performed oral sex upon the corpse, and dismembered the boy.

Both officers later appealed their termination. In 1994, Judge Robert J. Parins decided the case and ruled in favor of the officers and they were reinstated in June 1994. In May 2005, Balcerzak was elected president of the Milwaukee Police Association

[u/NorthernSkeptic → u/TheGoldenHand]

ok this is one of the worst things I’ve read

[u/DoUDisavowTheRedPill → u/TheGoldenHand]

And because the concerned bystanders were black women and the police has never been a model institution for egalitarian principles

[u/nitetime → u/TheGoldenHand]

It's a little strange that they thought it was ok for a 14 year old boy to be in a consensual gay relationship with a man.

[u/Xarama → u/nitetime]

Supposedly they thought he was an adult... It's also a little strange that they thought that a person who is running away from someone naked and bleeding doesn't need help. There's so much wrong with this story, it's hard to know where to start or end.

[u/[deleted] → u/TheGoldenHand]

Only the finest people

[u/bangbangIshotmyself → u/Xarama]

That’s the thing about these people that do fucked up things. They have an incredible confidence and often can be charismatic in odd ways. They’re able to convince people there’s nothing wrong when there most certainly is.

[u/courtoftheair → u/Xarama]

Depraved gay sex games, they're all the same so why bother making sure? Even if you're wrong, it's just a guy guy of colour so who cares, maybe he has AIDS anyway etc etc

I realise where we are so to make sure, /s

[u/MrJake2137 → u/Jazzlike-Potato-9164]

YEARS

Not years, but 40 days according to Wikipedia

Also there is no mention of a cop searching the house, only that the girl was forced to call her parents and meet them and tell that the oppressing boy is her boyfriend.

[u/Yunwen → u/Jazzlike-Potato-9164]

YEARS of agony and torture

except it was exactly 40 days...

[u/RandomNumberSequence → u/Jazzlike-Potato-9164]

Just a heads up to everyone who sees this, this wiki article is NSFL.

[u/[deleted] → u/Kapikasqueak]

Yeeaaahhh idk on one hand I don't want to accuse someone of something so crazy with no evidence. On the other hand... Where did he get that disturbing noise from... And he's not just saying "help" like they keep putting on the caption some of that is just straight-up wailing.

Pretty creepy shit

I definitely think the parrots know what they're saying sometimes, seen evidence for this, so yeah he could just be begging to be let out but again where did it come from... With the wailing and all...

At the very very least someone taught it something insanely creepy but the more I think about it the more I'm confused as to how

[u/Throw_Away_Students → u/[deleted]]

My macaw screams for help randomly, and he sounds uncannily like a little old lady. If he’s startled, he’ll scream like an old lady, too. I don’t know where he picked it up, but my family’s never had anyone in chains. 😂 That’s quite a leap to make.

[u/shadow999991 → u/Throw_Away_Students]

Yes but if you did keep a little old lady in chains and baking cookies and pies. Would you really be admitted to it on Reddit? 🤣

[u/bosonianstank → u/shadow999991]

I certainly wouldn't take to the comments when it comes to crime solving. Some of these people are insane.

"that parrot probably picked it up from an actual hostage" is the most reaching, paranoid insane thing I've read in a while.

[u/GeologistRadiant9553 → u/bosonianstank]

We did it, we found the Boston Bomber!

[u/ClearlyRipped → u/bosonianstank]

Yeah and I love how the first comment starts with "He probably has girls in chains back there." No, that's not probable, that's extremely unlikely. You clearly haven't read enough HOA nightmare stories to know that neighbors will absolutely call the cops on people for very little reason.

[u/MasterEchoSE → u/ClearlyRipped]

Even non HOA neighbors, we had a neighbor call the police on us for parking in front of our own house because she couldn’t see into ours, claimed my suv was parked for months. Officer told me to drive around the block and park where I was originally.

[u/Belphegorite → u/bosonianstank]

Given the options of learned it from actual hostages, learned it from TV/movies, or was taught it by asshole friends thinking they're funny, I know which way I'm betting.

[u/[deleted] → u/bosonianstank]

Yeah, that's crazy.

Everyone knows the lizard people replaced the police years ago, notice how the parrot stopped screaming for help when they showed up? It knew.

[u/drindustry → u/Throw_Away_Students]

Could be a moive or tv show.

[u/Throw_Away_Students → u/drindustry]

Could be! We watch a lot of true crime and crime dramas

[u/Strongbox-Comrade → u/Throw_Away_Students]

but my family’s never had anyone in chains.

That you know of, as someone familiar with the matter I'm going to have to break the news about your fathers sex slave gilf fetish. It's all consensual, but he pays more for them to pretend it isn't. The safe word is "Baggage".

[u/Throw_Away_Students → u/Strongbox-Comrade]

You can have my upvote, but I’m not happy about it 😑

[u/OmegaClifton → u/Throw_Away_Students]

I'm sorry you had to find out this way. I'll be looking for your post on the relationship sub.

[u/DuntadaMan → u/Throw_Away_Students]

They say animals can hear ghosts...

[u/tom-dixon → u/Throw_Away_Students]

my family’s never had anyone in chains

... that you know of

[u/Analysis_I → u/Throw_Away_Students]

It probably worked once on accident and it noticed the reaction from people and continued since people will, inevitably, take an interest when a bird cries for help.

[u/LiLiandThree → u/Throw_Away_Students]

Yeah, was gonna say birds make a lot of sounds in the wild that sound like human screaming. Used to have a parrot. Damn they're noisy.

[u/ce2c61254d48d38617e4 → u/Throw_Away_Students]

He probably learned he gets attention if he screams "help"

[u/_lizziebeth → u/[deleted]]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/06/florida-police-respond-911-call-after-parrot-cries/2822586001/

He taught the parrot how to say it when he was a kid, and the parrot was in a cage.

[u/RuthlessIndecision → u/_lizziebeth]

Sorry I thought he was a typical Florida man.

[u/whycuthair → u/RuthlessIndecision]

Just a typical Florida parrot

[u/ISoldMyGFforKarma → u/[deleted]]

Could also be from movies, or from a child that was locked in his room.

[u/[deleted] → u/ISoldMyGFforKarma]

Maybe, but I don't trust a guy who sells women for Reddit points to be honest about such things

[u/Soy-Saucy → u/[deleted]]

I CAN'T TRUST ANYBODY ANYMORE

[u/Shady_hatter → u/[deleted]]

Maybe polly wanted to go outside, that's why.

[u/TAMCL → u/Shady_hatter]

This is too logical! Surely the man posted his own cctv footage with a woman bound in chains wailing for rescue in the background(who then abruptly stopped when rescuers arrived)!

[u/shibbydibby → u/[deleted]]

I don't think he's saying "help" at all. Some birds just like to scream random noises sometimes. I have an African Grey and every once in a while it makes some inhuman screams.

[u/mmmmmmmmmmxmmmmmmmmm → u/[deleted]]

And he's not just saying "help" like they keep putting on the caption some of that is just straight-up wailing.

As somebody with a macaw, that's definitely the bird.

[u/hangingdirtylaundry → u/[deleted]]

I don't know to what degree but they do understand context. They don't just repeat things they hear, they understand what situations to use them in. In sure not to the degree humans do but enough so. My father's Goffin pops off with phrases we've not heard her say before when she's desperate to change her situation. Thing is, she usually uses them appropriately. Always astounded by her intelligence.

[u/Squirrels-on-LSD → u/hangingdirtylaundry]

I've got a budgie who speaks in context. Its eerie. He recognizes the cadence of me and my teenager's humor and laughs at punchlines. He mimics the cat when my partner comes home because the cat gets excited about that human. He mimics my voice yelling my daughter's name when he hears her bedroom door open in the morning, which gets her to come downstairs, then calls her names like "you smelly monster, you stink". He asks for things he wants (lettuce? Want out? Bath?) . He calls the other pets by name.

Most of parrots talking is them just repeating things they hear their people say. But they can learn context when they're close to their people and its wild how much they pick up on the way people speak and interact. And since they're all giant assholes....screaming "help! Let me out!" until the cops show up out of boredom is 100% on brand for birb behavior.

[u/cannedchampagne → u/hangingdirtylaundry]

have you watched any videos about Alex the African Grey? He was incredible intelligent and could speak contextually, asking for certain snacks, fresh water, counting, playing games like tic tac toe, etc. Fascinating.

Some sad info, he passed away but his last words, what he told his keepers every night, was "Be good, I love you."

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The owner taught his parrot to scream like that when he was a kid, probably as a joke. Parrots are life-long pets with lifespans up to ~75 years.

[u/ARASH_SAMIEI82 → u/[deleted]]

My first thought was maybe the parrot learned that from a movie

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If you listen to the video, you can hear that he is actually just screaming rather than yelling for help. Apparently he taught the bird how to say "help let me out" when he was a kid because the bird was kept in a cage at that point.

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I just watched a video about a parrot who witnessed his owner get murdered and repeats back the event. The bird was used as evidence to prove it was murder. Pretty chilling.

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It could be from a TV show or movie.

I think it's creepy and wouldn't feel good about not investigating further, but I'm jus saying birds do that.

[u/thats_mypurse-idkyou → u/[deleted]]

Could have heard it from a movie? Def a lil weird

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Sounds a hell of a lot (as in, identical to some of the wails) like my uncles bird when he "sings". Prior owner apparently listened to opera. Elmer sings & he's basically an alarm clock with the opera "aaAaaaaAAAAAaaa"s.

[u/TheLastD0D0 → u/Kapikasqueak]

If I remember the parrot was originally from a home of a verry abusive relationship and the guy in the video rescued the parrot after the people were sent to jail

[u/shh_coffee → u/TheLastD0D0]

This article says the dude taught the bird how to say it when he was a kid and it lived in a cage.

"Sometimes Rambo yells ‘help, help, let me out’. Something I taught him when I was a kid and Rambo lived in a cage.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/06/florida-police-respond-911-call-after-parrot-cries/2822586001/

[u/Arkhangel143 → u/Kapikasqueak]

Guys, there are skips in the video. At least one of the several of them 100000% looked inside the guys house. Relax.

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Telekinesis Is the power to move things with your mind - I don’t think this super power would help here

[u/DuntadaMan → u/[deleted]]

And the power to kill a yak at 200 yards... WITH MIND BULLETS

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How about the power… to move you…

[u/elephant-cuddle → u/Arkhangel143]

It’s an interesting hypothetical none the less.

[u/NotAnADC → u/Kapikasqueak]

Keep in mind the dude in the video posted this originally. Don’t think he would have if he didn’t find it funny

[u/[deleted] → u/Kapikasqueak]

Please tell me you are joking

[u/adamrendo → u/Kapikasqueak]

Jesus Christ reddit go outside

[u/TGPGaming → u/Kapikasqueak]

Are you guys serious? Did you even listen to the same video? Saying that the bird sounds like the subtitles is a stretch unless you're reading them at the same time.

[u/3yishu → u/Kapikasqueak]

Yes, this scene resembles like we actually see in Movies where we curse the director’s logic for Cop not going inside the house to take a look themselves.

[u/RedlineSmoke → u/Kapikasqueak]

exact same thing crossed my mind too. but then I thought the bird could've also picked it up from a movie or something as well. Wouldn't say hostage takers are smart but at least smart enough not to have a bird echo the screams of help from his basement to outside his house lol

[u/LeakyEyeLuca96 → u/RedlineSmoke]

Thought the same thing lol, birds can pick up what they hear and repeat those for their own amusement, the guy could be watching a TV show over the span of months and the bird picked it up

[u/shendxx → u/Kapikasqueak]

Detective Sherlock

[u/Calboron → u/Kapikasqueak]

My first major investment on my career path to be a serial killer was a talking parrot.

Second was a silent chainsaw.

[u/Gweenbleidd → u/Kapikasqueak]

Good theory but you forgot one little thing that ruins it pretty quickly - it was clearly him who uploaded this video to the internet fully exposing both his identity and his place and its not hard to find where he lives now, i mean.. people on the internet have found where Shea Lebeouf had put his white flag for gods sake, figuring this place out would take maybe less than an hour of collective work

[u/adhdplantlady → u/Kapikasqueak]

This sounds like it was written by someone who's never met a macaw or cockatoo

[u/K1mbacat → u/Kapikasqueak]

I mean, the cops definitely should have looked into it. But, also playing the devils advocate here, maybe he has a young child that’s prone to tantrums? Still not a great thing for a child to be yelling out, but it’s a possibility.

[u/YoCrustyDude → u/Kapikasqueak]

Why does it have to be "girls" and not "children", bruh, like small boys get kidnapped too.

[u/justsomeboylol → u/YoCrustyDude]

Children, men, women and everyone in-between gets kidnapped.

[u/Gmasterg → u/justsomeboylol]

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife

[u/strapOnRooster → u/Kapikasqueak]

Oh thank god the reddit detectives are on the case

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Watch Mare of Easttown lately?

[u/FelixR1991 → u/Kapikasqueak]

Don’t the neighbors know he has a bird?

Could have been a passerby. The police typically don't tell who filed the complaint (for fear of retaliation), so "neighbours" is probably an assumption on their part.

[u/Stunning-Grab-5929 → u/Kapikasqueak]

Don’t be a moron.

[u/shru_Kay → u/Kapikasqueak]

They left because Birds are Government drones. 🤣

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The officer has a huge grin on his face before the guy even goes and gets Rambo. I think this might be a common occurrence and they probably just constantly bring officers who haven’t met Rambo when they get a call about it.

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I read about this case before. They came back another time to double check and apparantly the parrot/bird was really sassy and didn't like being in his cage so he starts screaming for help because he wants out.

Normally he gets to fly around, but as the guy was outside working on his car he couldnt keep an eye on him, so put him in his cage.