‘A bit horrifying’: the Melbourne cockatoo dropping pot plants from four storeys up

Footage of the pot plant barrage has been watched 1.5m times, with one expert saying the bird might have been simply being playful

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Here comes another one!"

A passerby on Melbourne's Flinders Lane yells as a third pot plant hurtles through the air, landing on a cafe sunshade before ricocheting on to a parked truck, eventually lying strewn along the footpath with the others.

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