Global Courant 2023-04-27 10:07:05
A man was bitten Wednesday night by a “vicious” peacock that likely escaped from New York’s Bronx Zoo.
The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) responded to an 911 call at about 8 p.m. from a man, identified as Mike, who said the escaped peacock had bitten him after trying to pull the brightly feathered bird to safety.
“We were outside chilling, you know, smoking, you know, whatever and I thought I was a nuisance,” Mike told the New York Daily News. “I thought I was high.”
Peacock perched on a tree. (WNYW)
Video from the feathered fugitive shows the bird perched in Vidalia Park, a popular park in the Bronx’s West Farms neighborhood. Spectators would have called the escaped bird Raul.
The runaway bird is about three feet long and its head is topped with a flamboyant green plume.