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| US ex-fireman's life is for the birds | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 1 2009, 07:20 AM (48 Views) | |
| Post #1 Mar 1 2009, 07:20 AM | bavariantiger |
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US ex-fireman's life is for the birds Buzz Up Send Email IM Share Delicious Digg Facebook Fark Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print by Karin Zeitvogel Karin Zeitvogel – Fri Feb 27, 11:12 am ET AFP – Retired firefighter Brian Wilson holds one of his rescued parrots his foundation saves and rehabilitates … DAMASCUS, Maryland (AFP) – When US fireman Brian Wilson had a traffic accident 14 years ago, medical experts said he would spend the rest of his days in a nursing home, unable to speak or do much besides stay in bed. But some chattering parrots made liars of them all. "Two birds taught me to talk again," Wilson told AFP as he walked through the kitchen of his modest home in this rural suburb of Washington, which he currently shares with around 80 brightly plumed exotic birds, from snow-white cockatoos to scarlet or blue and green macaws to African grey parrots. "I had such a bad head injury I was never supposed to talk any more than a two-year-old," Wilson said. But two of the birds he had as pets since he was a child "just kept talking to me and talking to me. "Then all of a sudden, a word popped out, then two, then more." And not from the beaks of the birds, but from Wilson's mouth. To show his gratitude to the birds who helped him on the path to rehabilitation, Wilson has devoted his life to feathered pets whose owners are no longer able or want to keep them. |
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