Peacock attacks kid in Florida park

Wednesday, August 17, 2016
ORLANDO, Fla. (WPVI) -- A trip to a park turned frightful for a Florida mother when a peacock attacked her child.

It happened in Orlando Tuesday morning.
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Laura Brown says the peacock jumped onto her 2-year-old son Jackson's head, barely missing his eye with its talons.

Brown says when she called the park ranger, he told her he noticed the birds being more aggressive lately.
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She wants the wildly colored birds gone.

An Orange County spokesperson apologized to Brown, and said she would look into the matter.
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