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Police: parrot theft, fatal crash, could be linked
By Associated Press
September 21, 2007 10:49 AMPELHAM, N.H. - Police are looking into a possible link between a pet store theft and a fatal crash this week in neighboring New Hampshire towns.
On Tuesday evening Salem police received a report that two men entered Sea World Pet Center in Salem, grabbed a baby parrot from a cage and fled. The men escaped in a silver Ford Taurus with a Massachusetts plate. Less than 20 minutes later Pelham police received word that a silver Ford Taurus and another car struck a motorcycle on Route 38.
Motorcyclist John Sweren, 52, of Pelham, was killed.
Police said the passenger in the Ford Taurus ran into the woods after the crash but was later caught by police and taken to a hospital. The passenger was identified as 34-year-old Jason Murabito of Lawrence, Mass., The driver, 34-year-old Jason Connolly of Andover, Mass., also was treated for injuries.
Neither man has been charged in the case of the stolen bird. Police are still deciding whether to charge Connolly in the fatal crash.
“Parrot theft, fatal crash, could be linked”
–as is always the case.
Did they find the bird? Cuz the bird is the word.
Everybody knows about the bird…
2 questions:
1) Two vehicles struck the motorcycle simultaneously? That’s some fancy (or not) driving.
2) Was the bird’s name also Jason?