Anyone who has lived with peahens and peacocks will understand why someone would shoot them.
We had some friends who lived in that area.
He said the expression “loose as a goose” applied many times over to those peacocks. They were always cleaning their roof...
No joke.
Especially if you’re up there in Palos Verdes and you had one of them tarted-up emus take out the grille on your Maserati.