NEW YORK - A peacock that roamed into a fast-food restaurant parking lot was attacked by 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 Staten Island Burger King parking lot and perched on a car hood Thursday morning. Charmed employees had been 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!”’
Employees called police, but the man ran when he saw them. Authorities were looking for the attacker, described as being in his teens or early 20s.
It was not clear how the bird made his way to the Burger King, but a Staten Island resident who raises peacocks said he had given some to a person who lives near the restaurant.
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Apparently, after knowing Daughtry is played on Christian Radio: You'll weaken your chances of going to hell if you listen to that band and buy their CD. [/happily obnoxious]
Ideas on the man:
1.) Drugs
2.) Drinking
3.) Just under heavy ignorence and has never been to a Zoo
4.) An example of what Mental-wards take in.
But I guess some peacocks have some sort of physical feature(s) which might resemble a vampire... What they are? I dunno....
Yet what a random story; a peacock at Burger King.
omg that is soo mean psssh he deserves to get sent to rehab or something for being either drunk or taking drugs. He was deff high or something no one attacks a peacock and claims its a vampire!
Wait a minute. If he was attacking a pigeon they wouldn't have made such a big deal, but because it was a peacock everyone is all raged. I CALL THIS BIRDISM™!!!!
