BOLD, BAD CROW
HE ROBBED CHILDREN " DIVE-BOMBER " TECHNIQUE Jim, a pet crow of Plcasantville, New York, will no longer amuse himself by swooping from tree tops like-a divebomber to snatch lollypops and bright trinkets from the handSfof unsuspecting children. >-
Owned by Jack Rose, 20-year-old son of Air. and .Mrs. Duncan N. Rose, ot Polly Winkle Lane, Jim was found in & nestf two years ago and taken to tue Rose residence for training in P ar ' oll l' tricks., He became'adept at tliem ail" even learned to say "Hello." When allowed to flv outside, however, the bird learned tricks of his own->t at a police said that so many complaints ntui been received about Jim s clivcs iri£ ening children out of their wits % his wings would have to be clipped. I owner clipped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23809, 9 November 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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