The Latest In High-Tech Smoke Detectors!
No home should be without one, friends and neighbors! This is the ultimate gift for you loved ones! A smoke alarm that works when others fail!
That's right. An Amazon parrot.
Shannon Conwell, 33, said he and his 9-year-old son fell asleep on the couch while watching a movie. They awoke about 3 a.m. Friday to find their home on fire after hearing the family's Amazon parrot, Peanut, imitating a fire alarm.
"He was really screaming his head off," Conwell said.
The smoke alarm had activated, but it was the bird's call that caught Conwell's attention.
"I grabbed my son and my bird, and got out of the house," he said.
The fire destroyed the home's dining room, kitchen and bedroom, Muncie fire officials said. It remains under investigation.
We're not discounting the possibility that the bird set the fire in order to ingratiate himself to the family by playing the hero. It's not like we haven't seen flaming birds before, after all.
By Quilly Mammoth, Tuesday, 23 October , 2007 @ 5:45 am
There was another case where a parrot woke the family to a burglar.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/101707dnmetintruder.347b80b.html
By feeblemind, Tuesday, 23 October , 2007 @ 7:44 am
I saw that one QM. Gaius, via, Drudge, wild turkeys have invaded Maa and are terrorizing the residents.
By Gaius, Tuesday, 23 October , 2007 @ 8:10 am
Thanks. Got it.
By Maggie, Tuesday, 23 October , 2007 @ 9:25 am
Gaius, while NOT as colorful and interactive as this particular smoke/fire alarm, my alarms don’t poop every where … And I only have to feed them 2x a year with new batteries.
I guess this makes me Japanese, in that I prefer the “robotic” to the real thing …
Heh-heh …