False fire alarms caused by parrot’s ‘chirp’18 February 2011An escaped pet parrot drove a woman mad by imitating a smoke alarm sounding off outside her house. African grey Congo parrot Sammi, decided to perch in Shanna Sexton’s garden, in Devon, after fleeing its cage. The bird then repeatedly whistled in the same pitch as Ms Sexton’s smoke alarm. She told the Metro: “I’d been hearing this noise for ages. It was really annoying me. I looked around the house, checking everything. I even pulled out the washing machine. In the end, a workman said it sounded like it may be my smoke alarm.” However, the mystery was solved when they found Sammi chirping on a water butt on Ms Sexton’s lawn. The parrot was then reunited with her owner, who had posted several flyers around Torquay.    |
