The drunk man tried to take from the Kaliningrad zoo cockatoo parrot. On Thursday, August 17, reported on the website of the regional Department of internal Affairs.
Day 15 Aug 35-year-old citizen walking around the zoo with his wife and two children. “Being in an alcohol intoxication, he opened one of the cages and stole an exotic bird. To bring criminal intent to end the man was prevented by vigilant citizens, who thought that he hid in his bag a duck”, — stated in the message.
At the exit of the zoo it was stopped by the guards, who received the alarm from the visitors. In a duffel bag the suspect was found a parrot, worth 150 thousand rubles. Looking around cockatoo vet came to the conclusion that the bird was not injured.
Concerning the thief criminal case under article “Attempt at theft with illegal penetration into a vault.”
In July, a court in Omsk region sentenced two local residents to a year and two months imprisonment for stealing and killing rare birds.
The young people entered the night in the territory of Russia’s only rural zoo in the village of bol’sherech’ye, tore the locks from the cages where they lived are listed in the Red book of the country Dalmatian Pelican, white-naped crane and Guinea fowl, and then killed and kidnapped birds. They were going to cook barbecue, but they did not have a knife for cutting. In the end, the kidnappers left a dead bird in the bushes and stole meat from a nearby pavilion.