‘Vicious’ peacock wreaks havoc on Bronx streets after escaping zoo, biting onlooker in bizarre sceneBy Lee Brown and Khristina Narizhnaya
April 27, 2023
A peacock more than ruffled feathers while roaming wild in the Bronx — turning “very vicious” and biting a bewildered onlooker who thought he was the one flying high.
“It bit me!” said the victim, who only gave the name Mike while recalling how he thought he was “buggin” when he first saw his fowl attacker strutting a West Farms street just before 8 p.m. Wednesday.
The peacock, an escapee from the nearby Bronx Zoo who is now nicknamed Raul, then went on the lam, hiding all night up a tree in the Krystal Community Garden on East 180th Street before finally flying home at 11:19 a.m. Thursday.
Alerts on Citizen had warned that “911 dispatchers state the peacock is very vicious.”
Mike told an onlooker in a video interview at the scene that he’d been “standing outside chillin’, smoking and whatever” when he saw the large, colorful pheasant casually strutting its stuff.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/27/vicious-peacock-bites-onlooker-after-escaping-bronx-zoo/
