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AN American bank is facing a lawsuit after one of its contractors confiscated a mortgage holder's pet parrot and padlocked her house while she was away.
In a lawsuit filed this week, Angela Iannelli, 46, of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania, said that she was so distressed at being separated from her 10-year-old Blue Macaw, Luke, that she turned to prescription drugs for anxiety, The Wall Street Journal reports.
A spokesman for the Bank of America said the incident was due to inappropriate instructions <span style="font-weight: bold">as Ms Iannelli was not in default.</span>
The bank would "quickly review the allegations in the lawsuit, the actual events that led to them and the causes of those events, and consider any hardship that resulted," The Wall Street Journal reports.
In her civil law suit, Ms Iannelli said the contractor entered her house last October while she was away. The contractor then stopped her utility services, cut the water lines and took the parrot.
She accused bank representatives of being unhelpful and said she had to go to the office of the contractor to retrieve the bird herself.
The bird was initially nervous but is "doing very well now", Ms Iannelli told the paper.
Ms Iannelli is seeking damages of more than US$50,000 in damages
AN American bank is facing a lawsuit after one of its contractors confiscated a mortgage holder's pet parrot and padlocked her house while she was away.
In a lawsuit filed this week, Angela Iannelli, 46, of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania, said that she was so distressed at being separated from her 10-year-old Blue Macaw, Luke, that she turned to prescription drugs for anxiety, The Wall Street Journal reports.
A spokesman for the Bank of America said the incident was due to inappropriate instructions <span style="font-weight: bold">as Ms Iannelli was not in default.</span>
The bank would "quickly review the allegations in the lawsuit, the actual events that led to them and the causes of those events, and consider any hardship that resulted," The Wall Street Journal reports.
In her civil law suit, Ms Iannelli said the contractor entered her house last October while she was away. The contractor then stopped her utility services, cut the water lines and took the parrot.
She accused bank representatives of being unhelpful and said she had to go to the office of the contractor to retrieve the bird herself.
The bird was initially nervous but is "doing very well now", Ms Iannelli told the paper.
Ms Iannelli is seeking damages of more than US$50,000 in damages