I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .what in the world does the first sentence have to do with anything?
Parrot silent after theft ordeal ends http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_740259.html?menu=news.quirkies
A stolen parrot which can mimic a police siren has been returned to his owners.
He was spotted being carried down the road in a plastic bag by thieves who were trying to sell him.
His owner Diane Moore said a man called police to say he had just bought the £500 bird for £50 from a man in Leicester city centre.
Officers recovered Budweiser and he was returned. But his Mrs Moore says he is refusing to speak after his ordeal.
The African Grey was stolen on Wednesday by burglars who broke into the family's home in Leicester.
Mrs Moore, 41, said: "He is very, very quiet and very upset and his feathers are all ruffled up.
"He would normally be talking by now, but he hasn't said a word.
"However, they are very temperamental birds and they can suffer heart attacks and we are very lucky to get him back so we are all very pleased."
Story filed: 10:21 Thursday 16th January 2003
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From Russia With Love Scam Foiled - 01/17/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2665667.stm
A Cameroonian student doctor is under police custody in Russia after being arrested for running an internet scam.
He duped several men into giving him money by posing through the internet as a Russian beauty looking for love.
Cops seek 'Net pervs - 01/17/03 http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-01-17-0007.html
Hundreds of Alberta pedophiles are trawling the Internet for child pornography, according to a police probe that uncovered more than 2,000 Canadians accessing kiddie porn.
U.S. Surveillance Plan Awakes Critics - 01/16/03 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-980889.html
A Pentagon antiterrorism plan to link databases of credit card companies, health insurers and others--creating what critics call a "domestic surveillance apparatus"--is encountering growing opposition on Capitol Hill.
Man Charged With Cruel Con To Obtain Kiddie Porn From Victims - 01/15/03 http://www.msnbc.com/local/wlex/m263069.asp?vts=11520031850&cp1=1
A California man has been arrested on federal child pornography charges for allegedly posing as a terminally ill teen-ager to persuade sympathetic young girls to send him nude photos of themselves.
Art scam suspect captured in Kansas - 01/15/03 http://www.mtdemocrat.com/display/inn_news/E1501_N2.txt
After two years of eluding the FBI, a former Placerville resident is being held in Kansas on charges of fraud after being arrested on unrelated matters.
Kenneth Fetterman, who lived in Placerville as recently as 2000, was indicted by the FBI on March 8, 2001, suspected of defrauding people with fake art on eBay.
Ohio State University computers crippled by e-bomb - 01/15/03 http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/daily/0115ohosuspam.html
Ohio State University computers were clogged for several days last month after someone sent an electronic bomb of 11 million e-mail messages into the system, officials said.
Cybercops fuel Internet privacy debate - 01/15/03 http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0115net.html
When 35-year-old Richard C. Temple entered an Internet chat room called "Daddy's Lap" last year, he thought he'd meet young girls.
Man loses $7,000 in Internet scam - 01/15/03 http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/jan03/110964.asp
A man is out $7,000 after attempting to sell an antique piano over the Internet in what police and state investigators are calling a new scam.
Credit Card Fraud Help Policies Vary - 01/14/03 http://www.msnbc.com/news/858786.asp?0si=-
Last month, both Charles Bowman and Kelly Smith were scammed out of $2,200 by the same eBay con artist.
Net romance a risky chance, police caution - 01/14/03 http://www.therecord.com/news/news_03011483215.html
Lonely woman meets lonely man on a busy Internet chat room.
They write back and forth for a short time before the woman agrees to give the man her home address. They set up a time to meet.
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