This is the hilarious moment a parrot perches on a TV reporter's shoulder during a live broadcast about crime and insecurity - before stealing his earpiece and flying off with it.<br /><br />Chilean newsman Nicolas Krumm was informing viewers about a house burglary when the bird surprised him.<br /><br />He could be seen motioning to his cameraman to make sure he focused on the unexpected guest.<br /><br />But seconds later the monk parakeet decided the main attraction was Nicolas's earpiece and he plucked it out of his left ear.<br /><br />The stunned reporter, who works for Chile vision, tried to grab it back but was too slow and the bird disappeared with its prize as he turned round and exclaimed: 'It's just taken my earpiece.'<br /><br />He explained afterwards to a studio presenter: 'We were doing a midday broadcast and halfway through I felt a presence close to me and realized it was a parrot.<br /><br />'I tried to alert the cameraman more than anything because it was picturesque and I thought it wasn't something that happens every day.<br /><br />'There are people who spend years training parrots to get them to rest on their shoulders.<br /><br />'The parrot had been watching us from railings nearby and I think my earpiece had got its attention because you can see it looking at it out of the corner of its eye before it takes it.<br /><br />'I had to carry on talking because we were in the middle of a live broadcast.<br /><br />'Right at the moment when I'm trying to make sure the cameraman has seen the parrot, it takes my earpiece.<br /><br />'It wasn't something I wanted to comment on right at that second because we were dealing with a sensitive subject which was a residential break-in and I considered the most prudent thing was to carry on with the broadcast.'<br /><br />Nicolas also revealed his cameraman had managed to find the earpiece and retrieve it from a nearby patch of grass during a subsequent search.<br /><br />In March 2016 TV a rogue parrot landed on reporter Britney Klein's shoulder as she was about to film a broadcast for Australia's Nine News.<br /><br />The video went viral because, forgetting she was about to broadcast, the news reporter let slip a swearword before pleading and shouting at the cameraman: 'Get it off me.'<br />
