Vampire Peacock looses war

[BDirty]

http://www.southflorida.com/news/sfl...la-news-fringe

NEW YORK 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 Burger King employees were feeding the bird pieces of 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

[beachbum]

what. the. frack.

i need to get the drugs this guy was on to think a peacock was a vampire.

i almost want to call shens on the story. Birds are usually skiddish, so im wondering how he was able to grab it by the neck.

[BDirty]

If I was the peacock I would eat this dudes eye balls and turn him into a vampire.

[nofxfan]

i hate animal cruelty.