A 2-year-old boy was injured by a peacock that attacked him Tuesday at Magnolia Park. “It was just so scary to see your child in the talons of a peacock”, said Laura Brown.
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“Not nice birdie”, he said over and over again.
Brown said the talons tore through Jack’s head.
“They need to fence off the playground or get rid of the peacocks”, she said.
The two-year-old suffered a nasty cut to his head in the attack, which forced Brown to rush her son to hospital.
“There was a scratch like a millimeter from his eye”. For the first time, the mom had to take her son to the urgent care.
“I think that having an animal around where the children’s play equipment that has already attacked a child, that’s unacceptable”, she said. She said doctors used surgical glue to close up her son’s gash, and now he has to be on antibiotics for about a week.
She said she doesn’t want this to ever happen again.
“They are not unsafe”, Miguelez said.
According to WKMG, Laura reported the incident to the park ranger at Magnolia Park, who allegedly reported that the peacocks were acting more aggressively lately.
Warnings are a good start, but signs may not be enough, said Brown, who recently moved to west Orange from Tampa.
However, WKMG talked to a park ranger Tuesday and could not confirm Laura’s account of the conversation.
“I’m so sorry to hear about her son”, said Orange County spokesperson, Doreen Overstreet.
Orange County Parks and Recreation workers said it has also had issues with the peacock’s pecking people’s cars.
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