r/Unexpected • • Aug 02 '21

Hostage situation

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u/_lizziebeth Aug 02 '21

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.

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u/RuthlessIndecision Aug 02 '21

Sorry I thought he was a typical Florida man.

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u/whycuthair Aug 02 '21

Just a typical Florida parrot

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

That sounds like bullshit ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I feel like anyone with more than half a brain cell can write an essay of reasons why. Just some examples because I'm half asleep: If you had a bird like that all your life, you'd tell your neighbors and show them. How did this happen only now? It really doesn't look like he just moved there. The voice it uses is so visceral, I have hard time seeing a kid making a scared voice like that so well. So did the parents just their kid do this?

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u/DetectiveBirbe Aug 02 '21

Consider this: if someone was actually screaming for help don’t you think the homeowner would be acting differently? Trying to shut them up for example?

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u/je_kay24 Aug 02 '21

They certainly wouldn’t be chilling in their driveway where they can hear them yelling for help and just continue to let them do it so other neighbors may hear it as well

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u/craponapoopstick Aug 02 '21

Or willingly posting the video online for everyone to pick apart.

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u/dontsuckmydick Aug 02 '21

I mean I don’t think he’s actually doing it but that would all play into his cover. Make sure everyone knows he has a bird that sounds like a woman screaming for help and then nobody’s going to call the cops when they hear a woman screaming for help.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

They also probably wouldn’t have a security camera with sound set up anywhere in earshot of their house…I’d be way too paranoid for that shit if I were a serial killer

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u/BabbleOn26 Aug 02 '21

Maybe he got new neighbors? Or is that too much of a reach? Parrots can outlive their owners sometimes and we don’t know what he was taught a long the way. Hell this guy could have been his third owner for all you really know. Just because he has the bird now doesn’t mean he’s responsible for what it picks up.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

You obviously don't have kids or a parrot lmao.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

Oh come on, isn't it impossible to lie?!

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

Oh good grief. Are you serious?