Coffee loving parrot blamed for car crash

After a few days away exploring the culture (and coffee) of Eastern Europe, we are back, rested and brimming with information and, importantly, recommendations! Upon our return we found this in our inbox. And it’s a humdinger of a ‘what on earth?!’ type of story.

According to Pennsylvania State Police, a thirty-five year-old woman crashed her car.

Why you ask?

Well it was because of her coffee obsessed parrot.

No, you haven’t accidentally taken some LSD. And no, before you write in and complain, that wasn’t a typo: You read that right.

A woman tried explaining her way out of an auto accident by pinning the blame on her pet parrot that, as it happens, has a coffee habit to rival the best of us.

What is the world – well, the United States – coming to?

It seems that the yet to be named female was driving on through South Union Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, when she noticed that her pet was pecking at the lid of her coffee cup. This distraction caused her to plough into a guardrail.

Bar a few ruffled feathers the bird was fine and was helped out of the car to prevent it flying away – probably to the nearest coffeehouse to load up on espressos. The woman, however, suffered a broken arm and a number of facial lacerations due to the automobile’s airbags being deployed in the shunt.

For those wondering, police did find bird seed in the cup holder next to the coffee. It was obviously having the ride of its life!

Just when you think that you’ve seen it all, out comes something as ridiculous as this!