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Man with pet parrot on his shoulder is rescued from waist-deep mud at Belleville park
Belleville News-Democrat ^
| August 12, 2018
| Hana Muslic
Posted on 08/13/2018 3:31:58 PM PDT by plain talk
He was just trying to rescue his bird, but he ended up needing a rescue himself.
A Belleville man got stuck in waist-deep mud Sunday afternoon when his pet parrot flew off his shoulder and into the center of one of the dredged lakes at Bicentennial Park.
Fire crews were called to the scene at 4:30 p.m. after a bystander in the park heard the man calling for help. When crews arrived, they faced a sticky situation, Belleville Fire Chief Tom Pour said.
“He was probably several hundred feet out into the mud with the parrot on his back,” Pour said Sunday evening. “It was challenging because you couldn’t just walk out there and hoist him out. It was like quicksand.”
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: localnews; parrot
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Belleville is in Southern Illinois.
To: plain talk
To: plain talk
To: plain talk
Is it Friday night already?
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posted on
08/13/2018 3:35:45 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: plain talk
Save the parrot! Save the parrot!
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posted on
08/13/2018 3:37:17 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: plain talk
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posted on
08/13/2018 3:37:31 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: plain talk
Blue & Gold’s are the best of friends.
You have no idea how tough those birds are.
I kept & bred large parrots for 15 years before I became allergic to them.
Then I kept them for 10 more years until my health was in danger.
Miss my feathered friends...made sure they went to wonderful homes.
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posted on
08/13/2018 3:38:47 PM PDT
by
glasseye
("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
To: kaehurowing
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posted on
08/13/2018 3:39:08 PM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
To: plain talk
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posted on
08/13/2018 3:39:13 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
To: kaehurowing
"The plumage doesn't enter into it...he's stone cold dead!
Hello Polly! Polly Parot!"
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posted on
08/13/2018 3:42:28 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: plain talk
He plucked the plucky parrot from the perilous pond.
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posted on
08/13/2018 3:42:37 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Texas resident
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posted on
08/13/2018 3:46:17 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: plain talk
"Awwk! You'd never do that for me!"
"Shaddup, ye stupid bird - y'er not even real!"
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posted on
08/13/2018 3:46:43 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
To: kaehurowing
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posted on
08/13/2018 3:50:17 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: plain talk
Lots of interesting “Mad Lib” headlines lately.
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posted on
08/13/2018 4:00:29 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: plain talk
I sense fowl play at work here.
The bird led him out there then sat on his shoulder repeating “don’t you wish you could fly? awwwk!”
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posted on
08/13/2018 4:03:41 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: plain talk
A fat guy walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder.
The barkeep says, “Cool! Where did you get him?”
The parrot says, “Walmart. They’re everywhere.”
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08/13/2018 4:08:15 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: plain talk
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posted on
08/13/2018 4:23:41 PM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
To: plain talk
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posted on
08/13/2018 4:37:49 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Off The Masses Could Be Farts)
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08/13/2018 4:44:58 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Off The Masses Could Be Farts)
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