Man attacks "vampire" peacock

[simonjedi]

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!'"


Employees called police, but the man ran when he saw them. Authorities were looking for the attacker, described as 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.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/07/01/national/a031438D19.DTL

 

[Icarusintel]

Thank god we know there's at least one vampire hunter in this world... this man deserves a fricking medal

 

[lePobz]

I thought vampires turned into bats, not peacocks. Typical American - kill first and identify later.

OH SRY I FORT IT WAS A BAT LOL

 

[Remus]

Asked what he was doing, she said, the attacker explained, "'I'm killing a vampire!'"

Duh...

 

[Deleted member 56031]

I heard this story on the screwattack podcast but still funny

 

[VirusType2]

should have threw it in the frier. Vampire Chicken Whopper.

 

[Kula Meenur]

D:

I lol'd

 

[soulslicer]

"Hi, may i order a.."

"Why dont you try out our limited edition peakcock burger, or what we like to say, big cock burger, just came in today"

if it were macs, itd be McCock..

okay, ive gone insane..

 

[comoxer]

NOOOOOOoooooooooo!!!!!!

 

[CyberPitz]

Read this a few days ago, was rofling at it. Quit hilarious. "I'm killing a vampire!"

 

[JNightshade]

Shit, I make that mistake all the time, just the other way around. I mean, a few days ago, there was this peacock nearby. He was really pale, with long fangs and blood-red eyes, and when I tried to pet him, he bit my neck! At that point, I realized he was a vampire D:

 

[CptStern]

jeez people are crazy ..which why I highly endosre a global culling ..start with the stupids and then move on to the crazies



once in the middle of traffic I saw a homeless man kick a chained dog while calling it sally "stupid sally, come on sally that's it sally" ..left my car running in the middle of the street, ran over and slammed him into the wall before he could kick the dog again ..I yelled in his face that if he did it again I'd punch his lights out and have him arrested ..passerbys unaware of what had just happened looked at me as if I was crazy ..the homeless man taken aback cursed at me and kept on walking ..I'm like Ace Ventura without the big hair/ability to talk to animals

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

This is funny, but also quite disgusting. The man presumbly had some kind of head problem. Or maybe he was just an idiot trying to get attention. I can't tell the difference these days.

 

[-Psy-]

 

[Beerdude26]

Nooes poor peacock ;(

Awwww <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

 

[Vegeta897]

Wow. Why did I keep picturing an ostrich up until like 5 seconds after I saw that picture Beerdude posted?

 

[JNightshade]

Wow. Why did I keep picturing an ostrich up until like 5 seconds after I saw that picture Beerdude posted?

Because you're retarded

 

[Gorgon]

i AM killing a vampire

I so ROFL LOLed at this statement

 

[Acepilotf14]

Thank God! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!

 

[VirusType2]

NOOOOOOoooooooooo!!!!!!

wow, a rare photo of a vampire peacock caught in it's natural environment! I thought it was fake. Dey reelly doo exzists!

 

[Sloth]

What the crack? Some people have already crossed the line.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I thought vampires turned into bats, not peacocks.

It had an identity crisis

 

[soulslicer]

peakcock + vampire = peavamp, cockpire, peapire, cockvamp

 

[15357]

.........



I am seriously concerned for the future of mankind.




















THERE ARE VAMPIRE PEACOCKS ON THE LOOOSE! TO ARMS! AHHHHHHH!

 

[Lucid]

Laugh my ass off.

 

[Krynn72]

Crazy people make me laugh so much. Apparently they also beat up peacocks.