Bizarre: Florida Man Arrested After Killing and Eating His Pet Peacocks

Whenever you read the headline “Florida Man” you are sure to read something you have never heard before.

A Florida man has been arrested after killing two of his pet peacocks and eating them.

Craig Vogt, 61, of Hudson, Florida, was arrested on animal cruelty charges after allegedly killing two of his pet peacocks, which he then cooked and ate.

Vogt reportedly told investigators he killed his pet peacocks after he got angry with his neighbor for feeding them.

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A man on Florida’s Gulf Coast has been charged with animal cruelty after authorities said he killed, cooked and ate two of his pet peacocks. https://t.co/LFWz8wylqg pic.twitter.com/IGJ7Mdjyz6

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Per The Guardian:

A man on Florida’s Gulf coast has been charged with animal cruelty after authorities said he killed, cooked and ate two of his pet peacocks to spite a neighbor.

Craig Vogt, 61, was arrested on 23 September on a third-degree felony charge of aggravated animal cruelty, according to an affidavit from the Pasco county sheriff’s office, as the Miami Herald reported.

The arrested man allegedly told investigators that he had killed the two peacocks because his neighbor kept feeding them. He had written the neighbor a letter telling her that he would continue to kill his pet peacocks if she kept feeding them “to prove a point”, according to the affidavit, which did not say how many peacocks he kept.

The man “admitted to killing the bird by cutting the bird’s neck out of spite, then bleeding it out, and then later eating the bird after cooking it on a frying pan”, the affidavit said.