Bird 'Arrested’' By Dutch Police On Shoplifting Charge And Twitter Can’t Keep Calm!

By Medha Sharma

10/02/19 AT 9:19 AM

Bird behind bars? Yes, you read it right. In an unusual incident, the Dutch police recently arrested a tiny parakeet bird and placed it in custody after its owner was arrested for shoplifting.

As the feathered creature was a partner-in-crime, sitting on the offender’s shoulder when he violated the law, the police had no option but to "arrest" the adorable birdie. The local police did not have a birdcage so the felon was put behind a regular cell with bread and water.

No wonder, the Dutch are known for treating everyone equally!

Sharing the photo of the green and yellow bird seated in a cell, the Police Utrecht Centrum jokingly wrote, “This bird sat on the shoulder of the thief we arrested for shoplifting. As we don’t have a bird cage, this bird had no other place to stay than in a cell.”

As it was a petty theft, the police released the felon soon, along with with his feathery friend who promptly hopped back on his shoulder as the duo walked out of the station.

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NYPD cops beat up my loved ones, killed my parakeet: Staten Island mom

City cops barged into the home of a Staten Island mom without a warrant, beat up her family and callously killed her pet parakeet, according to court papers.

Evelyn Lugo’s beloved bird Tito was ejected from his cage after it was knocked off a dresser when cops came into the St. George home, the lawsuit alleges.

“I screamed, ‘The bird!’ ” Lugo’s daughter Anna Febles told the Daily News, “and he said, ‘F--- the bird,’ and he, like, stepped on it.”

“I was shocked,” Febles, 30, said. “It was a blue and green bird. It was really pretty.”

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London - parakeets - via Matt Salusbury

Matt sent me this for Watcher of the Skies

Cycling through Clissold Park in London's Stoke Newington, I heard and then briefly saw a flying parakeet. You can't miss their distinctive bright green colour. 

They've been around West London (especially along the wilder bits of the Grand Union Canal, and around Richmond Park) and North West London - Hampstead Heath – for some time now. I remember hearing that the ones in West London were Indian parakeets, and in West London they were Monk's parakeets. I've never seen them in South London, but I'm told they're now abundant round there too - Gypsy Hill, Burgess Park, etc. 

My Clissold Park sighting means they're now moving East - while Stoke Newington is an N17 postcode, it's in the London Borough of Hackney, which many Londoners would regard as the start of "East London." It's the first time they've turned up in a N postcode.