‘A bit horrifying’: the Melbourne cockatoo dropping pot plants from four storeys up

A sulphur-crested cockatoo was filmed picking up pot plants from an apartment balcony and dropping them on to Melbourne’s Flinders Lane. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

“Here comes another one!”

A passerby on Melbourne’s Flinders Lane yells as a third pot plant hurtles through the air, landing on a cafe sunshade before ricocheting on to a parked truck, eventually lying strewn along the footpath with the others.