Yes.... THE Birdman was in Alcatraz..... this old guy just had a pet bird...
And for those uninformed about the birdman of alcatraz... the real story was nothing like the great classic movie.
He was an unrepentant pedophile and a murderer.
After being incarcerated, he got himself into the press, and got a bunch of bleeding heart liberals to take up his case.
There was a nationwide (possibly world wide) movement to release the "poor old bird scientist".
But the truth is, he never made any discoveries in ornithology as he claimed.
And the guards continued to report finding hand written stories in his cell about his fantasies of raping and murdering children.
He was just a despicable, monstrous, horrifying little demon of a man.
And he manipulated the media, and all the bleeding heart liberals with nothing but sheer lies and good acting.
And the whole world actually fell for it.
I'm not sure what the moral to my rant was.
Maybe it's just that some people are easily manipulated... and the manipulators know it, and just run over them.
And it still goes on.
Happens a lot in politics these days.