A couple’s luxurious Florida holiday home has been taken over by dozens of black vultures that are vomiting and defecating everywhere.
The Palm Beach Post reports that the Casimano family, from New York, cannot even visit the 702,000 dollar (£578,000) home they purchased earlier this year in the Ibis Golf and Country Club.
Siobhan Casimano described the smell as “like a thousand rotting corpses” and said vultures have destroyed their screened enclosures, overtaken the pool and dented their cars with their beaks.
“It’s a laughable disaster,” Anthony Casimano told CBS Miami.
He further explained that the birds have forced him to move his family to New York.
″I have a two year-old daughter that I can’t bring down there while this situation’s happening; they’ll probably attack her”.
Neighbour Cheryl Katz has also complained about the issue. She said another neighbour excessively feeds vultures, causing them to keep returning.
“Imagine 20 vultures trapped, biting each other — and they can bite through bones,” she told the Associated Press. “They would bang against my windows running away from a bird that was attacking them. Blood was everywhere. It was a vile, vicious, traumatic event. And it was Memorial Day, so no company I called would come out to help me.”
Katz lives with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which leaves her vulnerable to infections, and she had to be extra careful going outside.
In an attempt to deter the vultures, Katz placed four fake owls outside with moving heads and blinking lights. “The vultures chewed the owls apart,” she said. “They ripped the heads off.”
Neighbourhood association president Gordon Holness said they were limited in what they can do because the vultures are migratory birds protected by federal law.