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Birdman of Berlin shared flat with 1,700 budgies
AFP via BreitBart ^ | Dec 17 2008

Posted on 12/18/2008 3:01:22 AM PST by CE2949BB

Berlin city officials, summoned by complaints over the noise, found a 60-year-old man sharing his two-room flat with 1,700 budgerigars.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: berlin; birdman; birds

1 posted on 12/18/2008 3:01:23 AM PST by CE2949BB
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To: CE2949BB

I didn’t think parakeets were so easily breedable. He could have made a ton selling each for 10 Euros.


2 posted on 12/18/2008 3:05:29 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
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To: CE2949BB
The tenant was also having to move as the flat was deemed no longer fit for human habitation.

I can imagine.

3 posted on 12/18/2008 3:25:32 AM PST by 6SJ7 (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: 6SJ7

Just a little bird poop. ;)


4 posted on 12/18/2008 3:27:40 AM PST by CE2949BB (Fight.)
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To: CE2949BB
Un-disciplined bastards ..


5 posted on 12/18/2008 3:36:57 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy
"He could have made a ton selling each for 10 Euros."

And risk being caught practicing capitalism?!?!?

6 posted on 12/18/2008 3:39:01 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: CE2949BB

Budgie~ what a great old band!!!!!!!


7 posted on 12/18/2008 4:06:49 AM PST by Cheapskate (Play loud and carry BIG sticks!)
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To: CE2949BB

pining for the fjords??


8 posted on 12/18/2008 4:13:10 AM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

Lovely plumage....


9 posted on 12/18/2008 4:25:06 AM PST by realdifferent1 (We've tried the soap box, jury box and ballot box. Only one box left and it's time to use it.)
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To: CE2949BB

10 posted on 12/18/2008 5:18:49 AM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: CE2949BB

Somebody told him he ought to get a bird as a pet to cure his depression?


11 posted on 12/18/2008 5:36:31 AM PST by wildbill
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To: martin_fierro
...and ironically, just nextdoor...
Tippy Hedren

12 posted on 12/18/2008 6:28:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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To: CE2949BB; mikrofon; martin_fierro

Ich bin ein Birdowner.


13 posted on 12/18/2008 7:03:11 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (They won't budgie.)
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To: CE2949BB; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson

Ich bin ein budgerigar.

14 posted on 12/18/2008 8:04:48 AM PST by martin_fierro (Ich bin ein Tagliner)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Ich auch. :)


15 posted on 12/18/2008 8:04:52 AM PST by CE2949BB (Fight.)
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To: martin_fierro; CE2949BB; Charles Henrickson

Ich bin ein Budgied Rent-a-Car

16 posted on 12/18/2008 9:24:11 AM PST by mikrofon (Trying harder at #2)
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To: CE2949BB

...Waiting....for....the...worms......(Sorry folks, I don’t seem to have an 0bama pic of the The Worm at the moment.) Funny how it works, and forty years later WE are now tearing down the wall and have become the radical Underground.


17 posted on 12/18/2008 9:27:42 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
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To: Cheapskate

SUPER PING! Breadfan here too! We need a FReep metal/punk ping list.


18 posted on 12/18/2008 9:29:34 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
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To: lefty-lie-spy
check out the weekend Canteen Music thread on the weekends.

We have a bunch of Zappa and related fans hanging out there.

Let me know if ya get a ping list started.

19 posted on 12/18/2008 2:14:58 PM PST by Cheapskate (Play loud and carry BIG sticks!)
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To: CE2949BB

“This...is an ex-tenant!”


20 posted on 12/18/2008 2:17:48 PM PST by RichInOC (Obama/Biden '08: "We Are Not Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends."--Rudyard Kipling)
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