The peacock, a male several years old, wandered into a Staten Island Burger King parking lot and perched on a car hood Thursday morning. Charmed employees had been 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!”’
—“Man attacks unlucky peacock at Burger King; N.Y. resident insisted bird was a vampire; animal had to be euthanized,” AP, MSNBC.com
This story makes me want to cry and vomit.