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Of course a guy with a parrot rides the Red Line
By adamg on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 6:08pm
Really, what other line would they ride? This guy and his parrot are apparently Red Line regulars. He came down to the inbound side of Harvard this afternoon with Polly on his shoulder, then sat as the bird moved to the handle of his shopping cart. He asked a busker a few feet away if she'd like some accompaniment:
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At least he had the common
At least he had the common decency not to bring a pet on at rush hour.
And i hope that cart folds up.
not sure how to reply otherwise, sry
but that woman is one of the worst singer/guitarists. she butchers classics and writes nothing, that i know of, to her own credit. Don't just support any subway performer willy nilly. Even that annoyance that requests non-photography and karaokes-butchers other classic songs in Government Center on the Blue Line platform. Don't encourage them!
does this parrot talk?
Polly wanna Braintree train?
Beats me. As we were getting on the train (to Ashmont), the guitarist put her microphone up to the bird's beak and it squawked.
damned hipsters
.
Worse
...the bird was riding a fixie.
Probably exposing my . . .
. . . woeful ignorance here . . . but thanks for "busker". I learned a new word today. Great potential when playing "words with freinds".
I don't know if it's the same
I don't know if it's the same guy, but there's a parrot on the 77 bus. I heard him discussing it with a blind person who had a guide dog a few months back, and he indicated that it was a service parrot.
Oh, I'm Probably Asking For It, But...
What service does a parrot provide, aside from entertainment?
Seriously. Are there really and truly service birds?
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
I believe it was probably
I believe it was probably something like this.
But all I can report is what I overheard him say from 3 seats away during a conversation I was eavesdropping on a month or two ago.
NPR had a story a while ago
NPR had a story a while ago about a guy who has clinical rage issues and his parrot is able to calm him down.
That's not surprising, since pets are known to be theraputic
for lots and lots of people, whether they've got problems of some sort of other or not.
It's a beautiful-looking parrot, but
this guy is really tempting fate by bringing a parrot anywhere in public without the use of a carrier to put it in. There've been far too many instances where people have brought their pet parrots out in public, only to have their beloved pet parrot(s) suddenly fly away. This can and has happened whether the bird's flight feathers have been clipped or not.
When I was down at the pet shop where I'd purchased my sixteen-month old Congo African Grey Parrot, Aziza, one of the young women who worked there was on the telephone with some guy who was sitting on his porch with his Jardines parrot that he'd purchased from that same pet store 12 years ago, when the guy's beloved pet suddenly flew away.
The young woman who took the call advised him to keep putting up flyers everywhere he could, in the hopes that somebody would call him, or the pet store, or Windhover Bird Clinic, which is relatively nearby the pet store, to take notice and call him, the clinic, or the pet store, if his bird turns up somewhere. I wish the guy luck.