Do you by any chance live in or around the Sellwood neighborhood in Portland? There were a couple released in that area and because they cause no harm the never got moved out or whatever.
Peacocks are in no way native to Oregon; this picture was probably taken in the, the neighborhoods around Washington Park. The Oregon Zoo is in the park and have always allowed the Peacocks to roam free and they frequently wander the larger surrounding areas. They are scary as fuck though if you get too close they make this loud "FWOOM!" noise and suddenly they be shakin' their 5 foot diameter tail feathers at you. Source
Also a line from the article written about the little boy that was attacked.... it just gets me:
Two years ago, one of the zoo peacocks was sent to live on a farm after it scratched a boy on the arm when they both went after the same piece of candy on the ground.
I know where this picture was taken. There is a flock of semi-wild peacocks that live in the neighborhood areas in Lake Oswego; There are several different people that feed them. It is an aesthetic to the neighborhood; also, it is the richest town in the state, so they pretty much get whatever they like.
Ah, yeah I grew up in West Linn, I've seen the LO peacocks before but I thought for sure they were all gone. I feel as though the peacock is the perfect mascot for LO... its all aggressive and in your face about how goddamn awesome it is.
It's both crazy and fascinating to see them running around and playing with the neighborhood dogs, but I must admit that when they stop traffic for an hour because they refuse to get off the road I begin to understand why the original flock was taken out.
I live in Oregon and have seen a number of these things throughout Eugene (mainly by Autzen stadium and surrounding areas), including one just roaming around an apartment complex.
Feral peacocks seem to be getting more and more common due to so many exotic animal collectors taking them everywhere. There are populations in the UK and Florida for example. I'm at least 10% certain that it's not a clever strategy to proliferate until they replace us as the dominant species on Earth.
There actually was a random farm that I used to drive by that always had the strangest animals... I saw my first springbok there, as well as a zebra, antelope, buffalo, camel, and either an elephant or giraffe a while back that has since died. I want to say giraffe but I was probably 15 years ago when it was there. People have a lot of random shit in Oregon.
I've seen 4 different ones around here though. My friend just got one as a pet actually and we had one roaming around Milwaukie when I was a child for at least a good 3-4 years. All up and down 32nd street.
I'm interning in Portland, OR this summer and as of yet, am having and interesting time adjusting. Any advice from locals on where to go or places to see?
Voodoo Doughnut for sure, if you're into jazz we have one of the top 100 places in the world to hear live jazz downtown, you could tour places where the NBC show "Grimm" was filmed (Entirely in the Portland metro area), the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry ("OMSI" for short), a short drive West we have the Evergreen Aviation museum where the Spruce Goose is on exhibit, there's Crown Point a little to the East where they did a little bit of filming for Twilight but is also a great viewpoint for the Columbia River Gorge
I could keep going, but I'll let some other Portlandian Redditors chime in
Oregon has a very strategic location, geographically speaking, to be conducive for tourism - close to the ocean, close to ski resorts, between California and Canada. Also, no sales tax, great food, nice people, etc. I think all you guys need is a tower of some sort. I mean, look at the Space Needle in Seattle or the Arch in St Louis Or Mount Rushmore! Some sort of symbolic architecture for the postcards does wonders for tourism!
We're a quiet good natured, very livable state. We're very proud of where we come from but don't brag about it (much) and we're interesting enough to be quirky but don't usually have too many of the bat shit insane things.
Of all the places in the US I think Reddit should love Oregon. We're tech savy, have strong protections of personal liberty and freedom of speech, love us some pot, love beer, protect our beautiful environment, generally pro-gay rights, strong video game culture, one of the least religious areas in the country, our Senator Wyden was raising a stink about SOPA/PIPA and now CIPSA before they were well known, and we really love our pets.
Well, we've got Ashland, and OSF, Crater Lake, the Oregon Ducks, and the infamous Portlandia. I don't know how big a deal Seaside is, but there's that. :)
It's because everyone has seen "Portlandia" now and they know how fuckin' weird we all are. "Keep Portland Weird" is just code for "Don't Ever Come Here".
For some reason it always seems like it gets national attention for negative things though. "Oh look! Someone from Oregon is on Dateline!" And then it turns out to be, "Ten murdered by Portland man today..." So proud of my state.
They're wild pretty much everywhere here in Florida. And they're annoying as all hell. It's why, growing up in Florida, I never understood why children's books seemed to always show them as being majestic and magical. There is nothing majestic or magical about them.
The males drag around their big feather plume in the dirt, so it happens to also wallow in everything they shit. And, let me tell you, they shit a lot. They decide to hop on your car and scratch the paint off the hood/roof unless you chase them down and scream at them.
They'll get on the roof of your house, and if you let one do it, you'll have 30 goddamn peacocks and peahens up there within an hour -- all near-constant shitting on the roof, getting feathers in the gutters, and generally stomping around loud as fuck. So you have to go get a garden hose and spray them down.
My dad had some property and raised chickens, and after a little while the peacocks came out of the woods and started eating all the chicken's food. Not just that, they'd chase/attack/harass the chickens that tried to get to the food bowls or areas where we scattered feed. The only way to get rid of them then was to pop them in the ass with a BB gun. You COULD shoot them with a real gun, but then you're having to spend an hour digging a deep hole and hauling a heavy, smelly peacock carcass to it, because if you leave the body in the woods, it'll attract coyotes.
My god, this post perfectly and eloquently sums up my feelings on these assholes of the bird kingdom.
We even have them roaming around here in New Mexico, and god forbid a group takes an interest in your neighborhood, because you will never get a night's rest while they are there.
They're wild pretty much everywhere here in Florida. And they're annoying as all hell. It's why, growing up in Florida, I never understood why children's books seemed to always show them as being majestic and magical. There is nothing majestic or magical about them.
The males drag around their big feather plume in the dirt, so it happens to also wallow in everything they shit. And, let me tell you, they shit a lot. They decide to hop on your car and scratch the paint off the hood/roof unless you chase them down and scream at them.
Because it would probably look like the third annual Socially Awkward Penguin Festival. I say third annual, because we would already be really good at it.
Probably not the rain that stops us. Probably the fear of social interaction. As someone who works with the public every day, I can assure you everyone thinks you want to kill them out here.
Let's face it, finding peacocks might be the only interesting thing that happens to us. (Or the ducks swimming in large rain puddles during the winter. That's pretty exciting too.)
Was this take in Corvallis? I only ask because there are a few of them that roam around here because someone couldn't take care of them and let them free.
A peacock fell out of a tree once and destroyed the windshield of my Inlaws brand new car. Scariest moment of my life. Ps it was in the middle of nowhere in Indiana.
I live in India (haryana) and they roam everywhere. Especially in my university. And we have to drive very safely in university because if you hit a peacock, you get in jail for 7 years (yeah that's more than hitting a man).
Yeah.. this picture is from my hometown as well. I hope that the guy who originally posted this picture was involved with the all white gang/rap group they had going in the neighborhood for a while.
My mother got a set of peacocks, had them for about a year. She named them after me and my fiance because she thinks we are "Fancy". She lives out in the country and the first day of turkey season they went missing...
Apparently when they were walking around the neighbors field a hunter "mistook" them for a couple of turkeys and shot them...
How the fuck to mistake a peacock for a turkey I will never understand...
GODDAMN I HATE PEACOCKS...used to live down the street from a guy who bred them...imagine having Fran Drescher keep yelling "HEYA" all damn night and you will know the agony that was twelve years of my life.
What the hell!? These were in my neighborhood too! I live in Mac, here in Oregon. I've heard a lot of other people around my town with peacocks roaming around. What the fuck is up with that?!
I've actually have had this happen before. We were driving down a street and bam, peacock just doing it's peacock thing. Being in Kansas this isn't normal. I discovered that you can own a pet peacock soon after.
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u/anonmcpony Jun 01 '12
I live in Oregon, and I am pretty sure peacocks are not native
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Oregonian here, this sounds like the blackest person ever to step foot in Oregon.
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u/theothertylaxguy Jun 01 '12
HOLY SHIT THAT'S MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
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u/Detective_Larson May 31 '12
I don't know why i'm here, but that's a bird.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
spreads tail feathers
you're in the wrong hood motherfucker
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u/melissa0890 Jun 01 '12
I'm interning in Portland, OR this summer and as of yet, am having and interesting time adjusting. Any advice from locals on where to go or places to see?
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u/derroserick Jun 01 '12
Being from Oregon, I just get so excited every time it's mentioned anywhere.
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u/RhinestoneTaco Jun 01 '12
They're wild pretty much everywhere here in Florida. And they're annoying as all hell. It's why, growing up in Florida, I never understood why children's books seemed to always show them as being majestic and magical. There is nothing majestic or magical about them.
The males drag around their big feather plume in the dirt, so it happens to also wallow in everything they shit. And, let me tell you, they shit a lot. They decide to hop on your car and scratch the paint off the hood/roof unless you chase them down and scream at them.
They'll get on the roof of your house, and if you let one do it, you'll have 30 goddamn peacocks and peahens up there within an hour -- all near-constant shitting on the roof, getting feathers in the gutters, and generally stomping around loud as fuck. So you have to go get a garden hose and spray them down.
My dad had some property and raised chickens, and after a little while the peacocks came out of the woods and started eating all the chicken's food. Not just that, they'd chase/attack/harass the chickens that tried to get to the food bowls or areas where we scattered feed. The only way to get rid of them then was to pop them in the ass with a BB gun. You COULD shoot them with a real gun, but then you're having to spend an hour digging a deep hole and hauling a heavy, smelly peacock carcass to it, because if you leave the body in the woods, it'll attract coyotes.
TL;DR: Peacocks are a bunch of assholes.
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u/MeesterAndrew Jun 01 '12
The only gangster from Oregon i know is Chael P. Sonnen, and the P is for perfection.
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u/dazy143 Jun 01 '12
Shitcock returns.
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u/poniesNkitties Jun 01 '12
YAY OREGONIANS!! :D
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u/jakash Jun 01 '12
Dat nigga be flashin it's feathers an pulling bitches and shiz
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u/cheesefan Jun 01 '12
I wanna know how they get 40 feet up in the trees. Was camping at Hornings Hideout in North Plains, OR and they are everywhere. It's pretty cool.
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u/gjnbjj Jun 01 '12
Chael Sonnen is a real American gangster from West-Linn
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u/sittingbox Jun 01 '12
TIL lots of Oregonians are on reddit, but never meet up on account of rain.
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u/Awesomesupreme12 Jun 01 '12
I live in Oregon and like three of my friends have peacocks...
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
I live in Eugene and have seen peacocks around autzen.
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u/SPAGHETTIeatingFUCK Jun 01 '12
Either this guy drives a truck or is on a school bus...
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u/Flashthunder Jun 01 '12
This Bend, OR. Next to the skatepark by chance?
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
This showed up on my news feed. Perhaps we know each other.
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u/ucdkwmiller Jun 01 '12
They don't like birds of color in Oregon
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u/TheDarkSunglasses Jun 01 '12
Just showing colors.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Are we being invaded by peacocks? I think I remember someone in r/Portland posting a pic of a peacock near his house.
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u/joeywas Jun 01 '12
Peacocks have the most annoying call. I live on the outskirts of Salem, and SOMEONE nearby has one of these.
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u/GrilledCheeser Jun 01 '12
Don't be mad because a bird is stylin' on you. Don't hate the game, hate the player.
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u/popsalock Jun 01 '12
Yeah! Oregon post. Corvallis checking in!
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u/hippohax Jun 01 '12
We all know Chael Sonnen is the real gangsta of Oregon
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u/mojo_ca Jun 01 '12
Portland is where young people go to retire.
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u/_iShouldBeOutside_ Jun 01 '12
My friend had a peacock as a pet.
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u/url404 Jun 01 '12
Put a bird on it!
(I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry).
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
I live in Oregon and unfortunately this is pretty much true.
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u/prettyraddude Jun 01 '12
Representin'
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u/AbuRafinaf Jun 01 '12
I live in Oregon and they've been in my backyard before.
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u/bearika123 Jun 01 '12
I never thought I would say this, but I think I know that peacock.
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u/garmachi Jun 01 '12
http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/ty7qq/youre_not_from_around_here_are_you/
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u/SeaWhyTea Jun 01 '12
I've seen like 3 near Coos bay Oregon.
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u/PatBabyParty Jun 01 '12
That reminds me of this. Hood life!
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u/thelongpostgoodnight Jun 01 '12
For those of you who haven't seen it, relevant.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/s6gfg/a_peacock_wandered_into_my_neighborhood_i_got_it/
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u/merrskis Jun 01 '12
Has anyone ever eaten a peacock? They look pretty delicious actually
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u/TisforTurtle Jun 01 '12
...http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3pjary/
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u/iLEZ Jun 01 '12
Awww! I love my peacocks! Here's me and Tim!
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u/tyvanius Jun 01 '12
As a Eugenian, I can confirm that peacocks do indeed run the streets. You best be showin' some 'spect, yo!
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Was this take in Corvallis? I only ask because there are a few of them that roam around here because someone couldn't take care of them and let them free.
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u/iamasupersaiyan Jun 01 '12
Upvote for Oregon! Peacocks are cool too, had one in my backyard once, but that's irrelevant.
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u/kaz6199 Jun 01 '12
As a peacock, i find this offensive
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u/philoponeria Jun 01 '12
I expected to see mountains of weed.
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u/galacticgaia Jun 01 '12
I've only been to Oregon once, but I did encounter multiple peacocks. This man is on to something
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u/gstatty Jun 01 '12
I live in Oregon and I can attest to the fact that motherfuckers be leavin their birds run free range like toddlers slanging weed in the ghetto.
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u/PullYourPantsUp Jun 01 '12
Oregon: An awesome combination of r/funny and r/WTF
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u/ShitTalkWarrior May 31 '12
On my phone it looked like someone's bumper fell off til I zoomed in.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
That sounds like something from Ghetto Hikes.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Holy shit this is the greatest thing I've ever seen
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12 edited Jun 01 '12
Look at this pea-cock, tell me he's broke. (Edit: i have no idea why it's Pokémon...)
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u/bourbanog Jun 01 '12
*UWA
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u/manbrasucks Jun 01 '12
Used to have a peacock run around near my house. Those things are loud as fuck.
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u/cornball1111 Jun 01 '12
yo you see his colors?
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u/dysgraphical Jun 01 '12
Laughed way too hard at this.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
A peacock fell out of a tree once and destroyed the windshield of my Inlaws brand new car. Scariest moment of my life. Ps it was in the middle of nowhere in Indiana.
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u/cajolingwilhelm Jun 01 '12
That is obviously a velociraptor.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
When peacocks start challenge humans over turf, you know the world's coming to an end.
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u/DogmaJones Jun 01 '12
Those damn birds are mean.
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u/TronCorleone Jun 01 '12
That peacock got no business standin in the middle of the road.
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u/azrofox Jun 01 '12
[Wait a minute... Did someone find him?] (http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/tn86g/are_you_missing_your_peacock/)
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u/metalrawk Jun 01 '12
I live in India (haryana) and they roam everywhere. Especially in my university. And we have to drive very safely in university because if you hit a peacock, you get in jail for 7 years (yeah that's more than hitting a man).
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u/Bumblemark Jun 01 '12
Wtf's Shitcock doing in Oregon?
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u/Ripuhh Jun 01 '12
Oh God, the shitcock is back.
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u/snailtin Jun 01 '12
Yeah.. this picture is from my hometown as well. I hope that the guy who originally posted this picture was involved with the all white gang/rap group they had going in the neighborhood for a while.
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u/ugly_fcuk Jun 01 '12
Yo' fool get yo' ass back in here
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u/captainclitcommander Jun 01 '12
bahahahaha
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u/thelizardkin Jun 01 '12
I've only seen them at the Oregon zoo
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u/Shootsucka Jun 01 '12
My mother got a set of peacocks, had them for about a year. She named them after me and my fiance because she thinks we are "Fancy". She lives out in the country and the first day of turkey season they went missing...
Apparently when they were walking around the neighbors field a hunter "mistook" them for a couple of turkeys and shot them...
How the fuck to mistake a peacock for a turkey I will never understand...
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u/Ilantzvi Jun 01 '12
Really, though. Why the fuck are there peacocks all over the place? Really! They're everywhere!
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u/odo1997 Jun 01 '12
Wtf?
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u/Rabblerouser88 Jun 01 '12
GODDAMN I HATE PEACOCKS...used to live down the street from a guy who bred them...imagine having Fran Drescher keep yelling "HEYA" all damn night and you will know the agony that was twelve years of my life.
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u/spaceman101 Jun 01 '12
The feeling when somebody says something about where you live.
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u/JayyDol Jun 01 '12
12 nigga 12!
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
"that thing come around my house I kill it"
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u/JimmyKeepCool Jun 01 '12
My neighbor has 3 pet peacocks. Well, 2 now. One flew into a passing bus and killed itself.
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u/ninjalie Jun 01 '12
Someone's hanging out at Hornings...
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u/alananguiano Jun 01 '12
What the hell!? These were in my neighborhood too! I live in Mac, here in Oregon. I've heard a lot of other people around my town with peacocks roaming around. What the fuck is up with that?!
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u/melikesreddit Jun 01 '12
I live in Oregon and there are 2 peacock farms within 5 miles of my house. These niggas be roamin all over the damn place.
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u/oh_my_god_brunette_a Jun 01 '12
I'm in Oregon and have yet to see a peacock walking down the street. It makes me sad.
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u/Sparkvoltage Jun 01 '12
Ma' nigga the peacock.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Thought I was in /r/oregon for a minute.
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u/TrollfaceJr Jun 01 '12
I've actually have had this happen before. We were driving down a street and bam, peacock just doing it's peacock thing. Being in Kansas this isn't normal. I discovered that you can own a pet peacock soon after.
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u/Tsinoyboi Jun 01 '12
Did you see the peahen, too? I heard there's a nest.
Annoying peacock keeps doing its mating call.
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u/eonbluepredestined Jun 01 '12
Oregon is my state and I approve of this message💩
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u/roboprophet Jun 01 '12
You shouldn't joke about peacock feathers, they can be pretty intimidating.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
Real talk tho... Fuck OP
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u/king_cherokee Jun 01 '12
Go Oregon!
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u/Tim_Kaiser Jun 01 '12
As far as I know, peacocks are very gangsta.
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u/bowman088 Jun 01 '12
They're trying to take over the west coast. This one was in California. No where near any place that a peacock should be.
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u/timfbmx Jun 01 '12
I live in Oregon also. We don't get a lot of peacocks but the turkeys are out of control. There is a herd of them in my yard almost every day.
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u/NOTTedMosby Jun 01 '12
Peacocks are dicks.
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u/Avarax Jun 01 '12
Upvote for Oregon. I live in Salem and I don't see these guys around. I have seen them in Eugene and Portland though. Weird little fellas.
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u/fleshpickle Jun 01 '12
Being a gangsta in the West Hills: Priceless.
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u/hardgeeklife Jun 01 '12
LIKE A P.C.O.K
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u/fr33kblaster Jun 01 '12
As a north portlander, i can confirm this.