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Any coffee lover will tell you that going without a cup of Joe can really ruffle one's feathers. Presumably, parrots are no different. Case is point is the pet parrot owned by a 35-year-old Pennsylvania woman, who blames the bird's coffee addiction for her recent car crash.

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Any coffee lover will tell you that going without a cup of Joe can really ruffle one's feathers. Presumably, parrots are no different. Case is point is the pet parrot owned by a 35-year-old Pennsylvania woman, who blames the bird's caffeine addiction for her recent car crash.

The Associated Press reports that the woman is blaming her parrot and the pet's penchant for coffee for causing her to crash her car into a guardrail near Uniontown, Pa.

State police tell AP that the accident occurred when the caffeine-crazed parrot began pecking at the lid of the woman's coffee cup. The woman, who was not named in the AP story, says she struck the guardrail when she glanced down to see what the bird was doing.

Details from AP:

The woman told police that the bird likes to drink coffee -- and they also found bird seed in a cup holder next to the coffee and a few feathers nearby.

Police say the woman broke her arm and had facial cuts because her air bag deployed.

The bird was safely removed from the vehicle.