Home alone child was parrot

Home alone child was parrot

Police called out to investigate reports of a young child left home alone found a talking parrot instead.

Police were called to the house in Koblenz, Germany, by an elderly lady who said she could hear a child next door constantly screaming "Mama, Mama".

The woman felt the child must have been left home alone as nobody was answering the cries.

But when officers broke into the house they found the cries were coming from a 25-year-old talking parrot.