La Cage Aux Folly

Here's the dopey news story of the day.

Off-duty officer thwarts birdnapping
Associated Press
Dec 6, 2005
FRONT ROYAL, Va. - An off-duty police officer shopping for ferret food helped stop a shopper before he fled from a pet shop with a $1,200 exotic bird in his backpack.
Thomas Edward Lee III, 23, of Winchester, has been charged with felony shoplifting/concealing merchandise for attempting to make off with the African Grey parrot from Noah's Ark Pets and Aquarium.
A worker, Michael Williams, said Lee had concealed the 3-pound bird in his backpack, but had been thwarted in his attempt to leave the store Monday by Terry Leach, an off-duty Fairfax County police officer.
Lee was detained at the store until an animal control officer arrived and placed him under arrest.
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Seeing as it was an animal control officer that place him under arrest, one can only expect that the bird-brained criminal is currently being caged at the county pound until his arraignment before a kangaroo court.