I knew a parakeet like that once.
Posted on 07/01/2007 9:09:10 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
(07-01) 14:12 PDT New York (AP) --
A peacock that roamed into the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant was attacked by a man who vilified the bird as a vampire, animal-control authorities said.
Beaten so fiercely that most of his tail feathers fell out, the bird was euthanized, said Richard Gentles, a spokesman for the city's Center for Animal Care and Control.
"It's just unbelievable that someone would do something to a poor, defenseless animal and do it in such a cruel fashion," he said.
The peacock, a male several years old, wandered into a Burger King parking lot in the New York borough of Staten Island and perched on a car hood Thursday morning. Charmed employees were feeding him bread when the man appeared.
He seized the iridescent bird by the neck, hurled it to the ground and started kicking and stomping the creature, said worker Felicia Finnegan, 19.
"He was going crazy," she said.
Asked what he was doing, she said, the attacker explained, "'I'm killing a vampire!'"...
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crack head
Sounds like the guy needs to have his dosages adjusted.
Only in San Fran....
Someone needs to be in the loony bin.
The nutjob might have THOUGHT he was in S.F., but this happened in Staten Island, NY;)
Oh geez......time for bed.
I’m sure he/she/it has a DU screen name.
Sounds like Pelosi’s San Fran Family Values.
Stay away from the brown acid.
Ever had to listen to peacocks scream? If he had said it was the devil I might buy his story but everybody knows vampires are quiet little buggers, free of tail feathers too.
I knew a parakeet like that once.
I’ve made that same mistake myself in my drinking days. Peacocks, vampires, elephants, they all looked the same.
Vampire Peacock Ping! This avian Nosferatu has one fatal weakness, their penchant for open-flame hamburger sandwiches and french-fried potatoes.
there’s a guy who strides purposefully around Wall Street with feathers on his head cackling like a bird sometimes. I could see him doing something like this.
9 out of 10 voices in his head told him it was a vampire, so it was a concensus...just like global warming
Driving down a dirt road through dense woods one evening, I heard a peacock scream just past the tree line. Scared the bejezus out of me.
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