Post #65365 by ikitnrev on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 3:21 PM

During the weekend of the closing of the Kahiki Restaurant in Columbus Ohio, I listened in as the owner/caretaker of the parrot who lived in the restaurant told stories about the bird. It has been a few years, and I may have some of the details wrong, but at one time this parrot was kept in the side glassed area behind the booths (on the right hand side, where the tropical storms would come and go)) It turned out that the bird somehow gnawed its way through some bamboo walling, or some other wood structures, and then began gnawing on one of the side support beams. All of this was going on without anybody noticing it.

If I recall, when it was discovered, it cost many thousands of dollars to get this support beam fixed - the ceiling above the post may have even started to sag a bit because of the support beam damage.

Somehow, the bird survived the wrath of the owner when they found out what caused the damage, and the bird ended up outliving the Kahiki.

Does anybody else recall this story?

Vern