Drunk Kicking Leads To Gaylord Murder. Belarusian Ostrich Looks On.

Okay - so I'm bored, and must apologize in advance for the very tenuous In Your Pocket link that this story has. But... I couldn't resist.

About a year ago, a pair of drunk adolescents wandered into an ostrich pen south of San Francisco and received a right good kicking for their efforts. As their female companions laughed, Gaylord the ostrich kicked McKevitt, 19, and Jonathon Porter, 21. Their precious pride was so kicked-in by the angry-yet-powerful flightless dunny brush that they did as many Americans would: they returned with firearms to seek revenge.

While popping a cap in the parson's nose may have been sufficient, the lads shot at the unrepentent Gaylord seven times, killing him to death.

One of the lads has been sentenced to either five or seven month's jail (depending on which paragraph of the Reuters story you read).

Oh - and the IYP link? The photo used to illustrate the story was of an ostrich on a farm in Kozishche, a town some 260km from Minsk.