So I was walking through manchester, outside the co op bank next to the printworks, on the way back from forbidden planet with tom, and what do I see? Only a parrot sat in a tree! so we stand there tryin to get it down, cause obviously it aint safe for it to stay there with the cold n the mancunain birds n all, and it just sorta flys onto my shoulder n sits there pecking at my coat n then jumps onto toms arm instead.....then he just went back into the tree and sat there on the branches and we carried on trying to get him down but with no luck....we must have been there about an hour trying to get him, and then i went into victoria station to find a policeman or someone who could maybe get through to RSPCA or somethin, then i headed back to the tree with this security guy, and i get back to find the bastard thing had flown off!
so me and tom walked in the direction it had flown, which just happened to be the way to the bus as well, n we didnt see it so we went into the bus station and got the on the bus. The bus went round past the co op where tom, somehow, spotted the parrot again back on his tree. So we went back over and carried on trying to catch him, then he flew away again, so we waited till he came back, which he did. Eventually, after probably 2 hours of parrot baiting, this guy called Arnold comes over to help, just like may other people before, coaxes it down to the metal thing round the tree, drops his jacket on it and catches it! then we took it into the print works to some security guys, got a box and holed it for the parrot, then went into the back part of the printworks where nobody goes and gave our details and that was that!
turns out this arnold guy acctually has a lot of birds and breeds em too so it might go to him after RSPCA checked it out.
n then on the way home the bus got diverted just to take the piss 
