According to The Australian and the Globe and Mail, life is imitating Monty Python in this amusing recreation of the famous parrot sketch — only this avian dispute has ended up in court:

An indignant Israeli is suing a pet shop that he says sold him a dying parrot, reports the Ma’ariv newspaper. Itzik Simowitz of the southern city of Beersheba contends the shop cheated him because the Galerita-type cockatoo not only failed to utter a word when he got it home, but was also extremely ill. Mr Simowitz adds that the shop owner assured him the parrot was not ill but merely needed time to adjust to its new environment.

I’m sure pet shop owners delight in uttering the phrase, ‘No no he’s not dead, he’s, he’s restin’! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn’it, ay? Beautiful plumage!’, when faced with such complaints.