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Quote:Bank of America apologises for repossessing parrot

Bank of America apologised to a woman after one of its contractors allegedly trashed her house and took her parrot while wrongly repossessing her home.



Published: 4:37AM GMT 10 Mar 2010

Photo: REUTERS


Forty-six-year-old Angela Iannelli sued the bank on Monday.
She claims her mortgage was up-to-date when one of the banking giant's contractors damaged furniture, took her pet parrot, Luke, and padlocked her door in October.
In a statement, the bank said it ''sincerely apologises'' and has tried for months to resolve the issue.
The bank said it has ''zero tolerance for this kind of error'' and said it will quickly review the lawsuit's allegations and consider any hardship that resulted.
The woman, who lives in the Pittsburgh area, said she eventually got her bird back after repeated calls to the bank.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi...arrot.html

Polly wants more than a cracker this time.

Polly deserves more than a cracker in this case. :dancing2:

Why would a bank take a parrot and where would they keep it - in the vault? :egg: It is life imitating Monty Python.

I saw the news about this a couple of days ago and had a giggle then.

But repossessing and trashing the wrong house. That's very unfunny and speaks of the deep power of banks to be able to authorize that without the intervention of the legal process. People today have been rendered helpless in such cases.

David Guyatt Wrote:I saw the news about this a couple of days ago and had a giggle then.

But repossessing and trashing the wrong house. That's very unfunny and speaks of the deep power of banks to be able to authorize that without the intervention of the legal process. People today have been rendered helpless in such cases.

Authority (sic) and Corporatocracy seem very 'careless' and with too much lack of 'oversight' there (and in my Land) lately, they repossess not only the wrong homes, but, at times, the wrong lives...the examples are too numerous to mention and well know to this crowd. :bebored:

Yes, very unfunny. It is not the first time I have heard of this during this current housing bubble either. One would think they would be using legal channels for evictions and repossessions where by it should become clearly evident that they have the wrong property and mortgagee. Obviously not though.

This brings to mind the tremendous piece of work by a noted local author in these parts -- Andre Dubus III -- which found form in

• House of Sand and Fog (novel), a 1999 novel
  
• House of Sand and Fog (film), the 2003 film adaptation of the novel, starring Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley.
  

I saw the movie first, and then bought the book, one of the finest things I have ever read, still on my shelf as a treasured holding. It marked this author as a student of the human condition par excellence. On the strength of that, I acceded when his next --- The Garden of Last Days (2008) -- jumped off the shelf at the local library.

I could not finish the book; it made my psychically and physically ill.