A New Excuse for Crashing a Car

Could there possibly be anything worse than a caffeinated parrot? Apparently not, at least in this woman's world.Associated Press passed this along to us from Uniontown, PA.

It seems a gal claimed her parrot distracted her by trying to drink her coffee, just before she crashed her car into a guardrail. She looked down to see what all the pecking was about. We've all been there, right? Our free-roaming car parrot goes for a sip of our latte, we look down to see what it's doing and bam!

The woman says that her parrot does indeed like to drink coffee. Investigating officers also found a cup of birdseed in the console by the coffee cup.  She suffered a broken arm and some cuts and bruises when the airbag deployed. The bird is fine and resting comfortably with a triple Caribbean mocha.

DB