Peacock takes out $500 in wine after crashing liquor storeAmanda Lee Myers
The Associated Press
10:40 AM
Jun 7, 2017
ARCADIA, Calif. — A female peacock has ruffled more than just feathers at a Los Angeles-area liquor store.
Without a peep, the peahen strutted into the open door of the Royal Oaks Liquor Store in Arcadia on Monday. Store manager and college senior Rani Ghanem said he didn’t even know it was there until a customer walked in and asked him about “el pollo,” Spanish for “the chicken.”
Ghanem, a 21-year-old San Bernardino resident whose family owns the store, said he then tried to guide the sharp-clawed bird outside but that she spooked, at one point flying directly toward him and then up onto a top shelf of the store. ...
In all, Ghanem said the peahen was in the store for 90 minutes and broke $500 worth of the family store’s best bottles, including champagne.
“Yeah, he’s got expensive taste,” Ghanem joked in the store on Tuesday. “I’m like, ‘You break, you buy, dude.‘ But clearly he didn’t. He got away with it.” ...
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