Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!rata.vuw.ac.nz!allister From: allister@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Allister J. Gorman) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: INDOOR: Bird Court Case Message-ID: <1991Feb14.191627.16811@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 14 Feb 91 19:16:27 GMT References: <1991Feb13.185528.17573@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Organization: Institute of Geophysics, RSES, Victoria University of Wellington Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: rata.vuw.ac.nz The continuing saga of Jokko the parrot (from 'The Evening Post', Wellington, New Zealand (still nowhere near Norway), 14th February, 1991). Penalised Jokko the parrot was sentenced to summer holidays on Wednesday after complaints that her squawking had contributed to a woman's heart attack. An Oslo, Norway, court imposed this lenient penalty on the 50-year-old bird after a neighbour complained that Jokko's squawking was like "daggers in the stomach". The neighbour said the red and blue parrot's loud screeching had contributed to his wife's heart attack and the proximity to the noisy bird had lowered the value of his house. The two sides eventually agreed that Jokko would spend every June in another part of Oslo and would travel away from home every second weekend during the summer. - NZPA-Reuter Allister J. Gorman,