A foul-mouthed parrot, who once told a vicar to f*** off, has been teaching other birds how to swear.
Barney the macaw has refused to clean up his act despite being taken to a language specialist, reports Metro.
His most shocking outburst was when he told a mayoress, a vicar and two police officers to 'f*** off' and called them 'w******' when they visited Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary in Nuneaton.
And the seven-year-old macaw has now been spreading his obscene vocabulary to two other parrots, Sam and Charlie, at the centre.
Rugby club officials had no problem p-p-p-p-icking out a missing person when they were called into Wigan police station - it was a six foot toy penguin!
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| Jailbird ID: Percy the Penguin ... and how he might look along with the Usual Suspects
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| A BASE jumper leaps off a 1,200-foot-high (4,000-meter-high) cliff wearing a wingsuit of his own design in Switzerland on July 15, 2002. Designers the world over are in a race to develop the first wingsuit - a special dive suits that resembling a flying squirrel costume - that a person can land safely without the aid of a parachute.
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It sounds crazy, and it probably is: Skydive from 15,000 feet (4,600 meters) and land safely - without a parachute - wearing a getup that resembles a flying squirrel costume.
This is a great example of how you are turned away from looking at things you aren't supposed to look at. It's also fairly funny.
Could Italy's election be postponed?
REEDSBURG, Wis. - An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office.
Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in costume all last week as part of an annual school tradition called Wacky Week. On Friday, students were encouraged to dress either as senior citizens or as members of the opposite sex.
As many of you know, laughter has always been my bailiwick. Well, April is National Humor Month, so we should celebrate with great gusto. I don't know why April is the month to celebrate humor, but it might have something to do with April Fools' Day.
Did you know that you now have 96 fewer bones in your body than when you were born? There's a lot more you never knew to ask.
A man faces five years in jail after being accused of assaulting a teenager with a hedgehog. William Singalargh, 27, is said to have thrown the hedgehog from 15ft away during a row with the unnamed 15-year-old.
"When it hit the victim in the leg, it caused a large red welt and several puncture marks," said a police source in Whakatane, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island.
The evocative question 'Is there anybody there?' conjures up images of mediums summoning spirits in a darkened room. But now psychics must add a few riders before they invoke the voices of the dead, thanks to new consumer laws due to come into force. Breathless audiences are now likely to be asked: 'Is there anybody here... who is vulnerable, of nervous disposition, or likely to sue?'
