Police swooped on a home following reports of a ‘screaming woman’ - only to end up walking away in tears of laughter. Officers in three police cars flew to Steve Wood’s property before finding the source of the 'screams' reported by a neighbour.
Essex Police said they had been alerted to a possible incident at 1.50pm on Tuesday involving a woman shouting for help by a “concerned neighbour”. And when stunned Steve, 54, opened his door to them, he admitted feeling a wave of panic.
But the retired policeman, assured the officers that the noises were actually coming from his boisterous three-year-old feathered friend - a yellow-naped Amazon parrot called Freddie. Steve has a collection of 22 birds.
