The offensive squawks of a pet bird so enraged a Taiwanese man
that he sued its owners -- his neighbours -- for inflicting
emotional stress and injuries, a report said Tuesday.
Wang Han-chin, an electrician in central Taiwan, accused five
neighbours of teaching their mynah, a parrot-like bird, to curse at
him as revenge after he complained to the police that they were too
loud, the Liberty Times reported.
Wang alleged that whenever he left home, the bird would see him
off with the words "Clueless big-mouthed idiot", causing serious
distress and making him lose concentration at work so he suffered
burn injuries, it said.
He pressed charges, but the neighbours denied instructing the
bird to curse and prosecutors decided to drop the charges due to
insufficient evidence linking the bird to his injuries, it
added.