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From: allister@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Allister J. Gorman)
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Subject: INDOOR: Bird Court Case
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Date: 13 Feb 91 18:55:28 GMT
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JAIL BIRD

A screeching parrot accused of making the neighbours ill went on trial
in Norway this week in an unprecidented court case which could bring
it a long spell of solitary confinement.  Jokko, a blue and red parrot
aged about 50, kept virtually silent as a magistrate, lawyers and
witnesses turned up at the bird's Oslo home for the start of the trial
on Monday.  The court moved to the house as it was too cold for Jokko
to travel.  Jokko's owner, Jan Erik Skog, denied charges that he spied
on neighbours and deliberately put the parrot outside to annoy them in
summer.  - NZPA-Reuter.

Allister J. Gorman, <allister@rata.vuw.ac.nz>