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Peacock Beaten To Death; Woman Blames Bird (Woman Says Constant Squawking Drove Her To Kill)
KITV ^ | May 19, 2009

Posted on 05/20/2009 10:34:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Woman Says Constant Squawking Drove Her To Kill

A woman said a peacock's constant squawking drove her to kill it last weekend, Honolulu television station KITV reported.

Residents of the Makaha Valley Towers property said they woke up Sunday morning to a peacock screeching and a woman attacking the bird.

"She took a bat and she beat it to death and she carried it out of here," witness Mike Targgart said. Targgart said he heard the commotion and ran downstairs where Honolulu police had arrived.

"It was horrible to see its eye was bashed out and it had a broken leg," Taggart said.

Sandra Maloney said sleep deprivation from the noisy peacocks led her to commit the violent act. "I grabbed him by the tail and I whacked him on the head," Maloney said.

She said the peacock population has ballooned since she moved in five years ago and her repeated requests for their removal are going unanswered.

"They run around our barbecue area; our food prep area is unusable. The picnic table and bench all have to be wiped down before you dare use them," Maloney said.

A representative of the United States Humane Society said Maloney is facing animal cruelty charges.


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: hawaii; peacock; pests
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To: garandgal

I know. Its sad that people can’t look for another way to deal with a beautiful bird then to kill it with a bat. More sad that so many people enjoy the fact she did it IMHO.


41 posted on 05/21/2009 12:22:12 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: pandoraou812
I have no problem with killing things. It is how you do it. The peacock could have been moved.

It sounds like she'd been complaining for some time about the peacocks. I can see being frustrated when no one will take care of the problem.

As for hitting it with a bat... if I were to try to "take one out" myself, I'm not sure how else I could do it. A gun probably isn't allowed in a residential area.

42 posted on 05/21/2009 12:41:15 AM PDT by Dianna (Obama Barbie: Governing is hard.)
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To: Dianna

Maybe she didn’t call the right people. I believe that she was annoyed by it. However you don’t just kill something that annoys you. You get together with the other neighbors & you take the steps to correct the problem. I don’t buy into the nobody would do anything stuff. Peacocks aren’t cheap & somebody would have taken it. If it bothered her that much she could have called animal control. And if she put up with it for years ,shame on her. She should have moved. I have a huge Heron that is raiding my koi pond. I don’t kill the darn bird, I net my pond. I have sprayed it with the hose but I sure wouldn’t bat that darn thing. If I did anything to it, I would be jailed asap. They are protected, so I deal with my fish stolen & net the pond. That Heron would attack me if it could I think.


43 posted on 05/21/2009 1:14:35 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: askrenr

I live in Hawaii, I know what she’s talking about, although I never killed one. We used to have one living on our street and it would squawk terribly loudly at all hours and follow our toddlers around the street, feathers all fanned out and trembling w/passion for our kids! It was scary. And don’t get me started on the pooh. They are quite beautiful but so what, there can be too much of a good thing!


44 posted on 05/21/2009 1:20:07 AM PDT by hulagirl (Mother Theresa was right)
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To: mamelukesabre

I hunt, I raise animals for food and butcher myself. But, what you wrote about killing a bird real slow is not funny, it is sick. I would not allow someone like you on my property or to share space around me.

Ethics and morality mean something, cruelty and perversion also mean something mamelukesabre...you should be ashamed of yourself.


45 posted on 05/21/2009 1:24:03 AM PDT by Wpin (I do not regret my admiration for W)
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To: hulagirl

It was like that in our campground. Roosters, chickens & peacocks all over. First summer there I would wake up wondering who or what was yelling what sounded like help. The owner was a bird nut. We finally got him to cage most of the peacocks & got used to the noise. He would thin out the roosters & chickens from time to time. I hated the poop & learned to always have flip flops on. I think the roosters were more evil. They would chase my dogs. We also had wild turkeys,deer, geese, foxes & coyotes. Neither the foxes nor the coyotes got the peacocks. When the bears started to come around we left.


46 posted on 05/21/2009 1:29:10 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: nickcarraway

>>>Targgart said he heard the commotion and ran downstairs where Honolulu police had arrived.

She would have gotten away with killing the peacock if not for the stool pigeon.


47 posted on 05/21/2009 1:29:12 AM PDT by tlb
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To: pandoraou812

No doubt that I agree with you on that. There are many more prudent ways that the issue could have been taken care of. I am not advocating at all for the beating of a live animal. I just don’t agree with the “should be locked up” statement. Then again even that would have to be dependent on the whole outcome of it. Like three days and a fine or five years. Sorry, don’t get me wrong I am an animal lover. I just get tired of hearing of the “atrocities” of the Michael Vick types, but rapists and murderers are getting plea deals. I have no doubt that what Vick did was despicable and he needed to be punished, but I guess I get overly......sensitive.......for lack of a better term, when it comes to this issue. Worked at a prison for a year and half and alot of times the criminals are let off too easy. Until we get that straightened out I can’t hear about an animal and that “atrocity.” Sorry, off soapbox now.


48 posted on 05/21/2009 1:29:59 AM PDT by FreeSouthernAmerican (All we ask is to be let alone----Jefferson Davis)
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To: pandoraou812
If people would simply watch the video, a dozen of the peacocks have been killed over the past several weeks...she just got caught this time.

The neighbors were probably watching the situation...to see which nutcase was actually beating the birds to death.

She is perfectly proud of her actions, so she is either "losing it" mentally; or has retired there from a place where this type of trashy behavior is acceptable.

Judging from the video, I'm going with the latter.

49 posted on 05/21/2009 1:30:06 AM PDT by garandgal
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To: nickcarraway

Every hear of a trap lady? Serious anger management issues.


50 posted on 05/21/2009 1:30:09 AM PDT by americanophile (There's science, logic, reason; there's thought verified by experience & then there's California)
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To: nickcarraway

There was a peacock in my neighborhood when I was a kid. This was in a residential area in a fairly large city. We could hear that thing crying quite often. Every once in a while it would get loose and come walking down our street and freak people out.


51 posted on 05/21/2009 1:54:14 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: FreeSouthernAmerican

When people kill animals & when they are children it shows a tendency toward antisocial behavior. Many serial killers started killing animals first, as I am sure you are aware, having worked in a prison... I know plenty of people who have killed animals. I’ve worked for shelters & been a vet tech. I’ve seen the kooks who abuse animals & most of the time they have mental problems of some kind or are violent people. Rapists & murders get off far too easily, I don’t like plea deals either. I am for the death penalty myself.


52 posted on 05/21/2009 2:01:13 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: garandgal

I didn’t watch the video. I have seen enough animal abuse to last me forever....What I don’t understand is why people seem to think it is fine to bat a bird. There are ways to deal with unwanted or bothersome animals/birds. I would be worried to live where birds were being killed by a kook. I would wonder if my kids were safe or if one day I was making too much noise & got the bat next.


53 posted on 05/21/2009 2:08:14 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: nickcarraway
She should write a book. Title it “To Kill a Squawking Bird”.

Woman wrapped a little too tight sounds to me.

54 posted on 05/21/2009 3:03:15 AM PDT by Peleliu1944 (Susan Estrich - a face for radio and a voice for pantomime.)
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To: FreeSouthernAmerican

Yeh...my grandpa’s letting them run around with their head cut off is much more fun...SOUP’S ON!!!


55 posted on 05/21/2009 4:47:19 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: pandoraou812

I think it was the drunken camper remark that got to him. WEFG


56 posted on 05/21/2009 10:29:48 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye

Hmm I think he has a lot in common with a peacock. lmao!


57 posted on 05/21/2009 10:32:42 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: mamelukesabre
Boy, there's a George Carlin joke that would get me banned.

"What do you call a female Peacock?"

58 posted on 05/21/2009 10:35:19 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Richard Kimball
"What do you call a female Peacock?"

They're Peahens...

59 posted on 05/21/2009 10:39:54 AM PDT by steveo
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To: steveo

That’s not the joke you were looking for...


60 posted on 05/21/2009 10:48:43 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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