I really hope drugs were involved somehow.

Remember that statement. It’s not often you would ever hope that someone was on drugs, but in certain extreme cases, drugs may be a better alternative than completely and totally insane.

The peacock, a male several years old, wandered into a Burger King parking lot in the New York borough of Staten Island and perched on a car hood Thursday morning. Charmed employees were 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!’”

So again, I say that I really hope that drugs were involved somehow… it’s either that, insanity, or the fact that somehow someone has convinced this individual that peacocks are vampires. Then of course, this person may be on to something…

• Man beats peacock he says was vampire (AP)