3 April 2018
A Canadian man has been
"pardoned" by a luxury hotel after his room was ransacked by a flock
of pepperoni-loving seagulls nearly two decades ago.
Nick Burchill was banned by the
Fairmont Empress in Victoria, British Columbia, after "a string of
unfortunate events" in 2001.
In a Facebook post, the Nova
Scotia man described bringing some pepperoni to naval buddies on the west
coast.
The problems began when he
decided to cool the meat on the hotel windowsill.
The "Brother's
Pepperoni" - a Halifax delicacy - had been kept at room temperature for a
short time, Mr Burchill wrote in a widely shared social media post.
He thought it would be best to
make sure it was refrigerated.
But the fourth-floor room had no
fridge.
Still, it was April, the air was
chilly, and his front-facing room had a window.
"I lifted one of the sashes
and spread the packages of pepperoni out on the table and windowsill. Then, I
went for a walk…for about 4 or 5 hours," said Mr Burchill.
On his return, he found about 40
seagulls - "an entire flock" - in his room. They had been eating the
pepperoni, which "does NASTY things to a seagull's digestive system".
The startled birds
"immediately started flying around and crashing into things as they
desperately tried to leave the room through the small opening by which they had
entered," Mr Burchill said.
"The result was a tornado of
seagull excrement, feathers, pepperoni chunks and fairly large birds whipping
around the room. The lamps were falling. The curtains were trashed."
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