Comments on: Motoparrot

By: Tracy W

Tracy W — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:54:13 +0000

There used to be a guy biking around Lower Hutt, NZ, with a kookaburra perched, presumably happily, on his handlebars. For all I know, there still is.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:50:20 +0000

Have you ever heard of Rabbit show jumping?

Were the rabbits in the long-jump competition tested for banned substances? Because that’s a long way for a rabbit . . . .

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:26:43 +0000

“There is a guy in Manchester (the English one) who strolls round Didsbury with a GIANT (and I mean big) rabbit on a lead. The rabbit hops on and off buses with him seemingly very happy. The first time I saw it I thought I was tripping.”
Posted by Tom

Have you ever heard of Rabbit show jumping?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:09:13 +0000

Half man, half bird, half motorcycle.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:14:08 +0000

About 20 years ago I saw a guy on a bicycle crossing Columbus Avenue in NYC. He had a parrot on his shoulder and 2 parakeets were riding on the brake cables over his handlebars. When his bike struck the curb one of his parakeets lost his hold on the brake cable and fell to the ground. The cyclist called something like, “Come on up, Cheepie,” and the bird, with beak and clawed feet climbed up the spokes and up the brake cables to his former position. Then they rode off. All us observers stared at each other like we’d been involved in an alien abduction.

By: DennyCrane

DennyCrane — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:32:04 +0000

Earphones, parrot, poseur and with a fifteen year old princess’s total look at me mentality – gotta be about the safest thing on the road since that collapsing bridge thing.

Envious? Moi? Well, just a tadge, lol.

By: roac

roac — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:10:28 +0000

12: I think the parrot must be a volunteer. If it didn’t enjoy the ride the first time, it could surely manage to bail out on subsequent occasions. Parrots are smart.

Dogs like sticking their heads into a 60 mph airstream, so why not parrots?

By: luci

luci — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:14:23 +0000

The bird might enjoy it, who knows. But if he puts his wings out at 60 miles an hour, he’s a goner.

By: Sans S

Sans S — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:27:30 +0000

The parrot says: “People of zee wurl, relax”

By: Sans S

Sans S — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:24:49 +0000

Can we nickname him Switters? … after the character in Tom Robbins book “Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.”

It would be delightful if a nun took the picture?

It would also be delightful if the parrot is wearing a mic feeding the headset with “are we there yet” …

reality, huh?

By: Anderson

Anderson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:32:02 +0000

The first time I saw it I thought I was tripping.

Irrelevantly, the weirdest thing I have ever seen:

A man pushing his black cat in a toddler swing at Union Square, NYC. The cat had its legs hooked over the front edge of the swing, legs and tail sticking out, and was apparently enjoying itself—no effort to get out.

By: Tom T.

Tom T. — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:21:50 +0000

Sorry to be nannyish, but this strikes me as exploitative and cruel. Wind whipping past at 60 mph, feet clamped on to the rider’s collar for dear life must be terribly stressful. He’s using an animal as a fashion accessory.

By: Ben Alpers

Ben Alpers — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:31:45 +0000

I for one was disappointed in this post.

The title made me hope for some kind of robotic parrot.

More robot animals, please!

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:02:21 +0000

*photogrpahs obviously . . . oh I give up . . .

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:01:41 +0000

Beautiful plumage the Norwegian Blue, beautiful plumage . . .
Though I’m afraid this chap is completely blown away by the people I used to regularly see driving a three-piece suite and standard lamp along the elevated section of the M4 in the days when I worked at LHR . . . unfortunately no phootgraphs of them seem to have made it onto the web . . .