I was just getting my daily dose of Autoblog.com when I came across this entry...

Feathers fly when peacock procreates with car

Posted Oct 5th 2007 1:02PM by Siddharth Raja, Filed under: Etc., Lexus

You'd never guess that a bird could confuse something as big as a car for one of its sexual partners, but that's exactly what happened recently in England. A male peacock that lives in the grounds of an aristocrat's manor caused thousands of dollars of damage to a guest's Lexus when it attempted to procreate with it.

The car was left covered in scratches and will now require a full respray, with insurers, Lloyd's of London, left to foot the bill of £4,000 or $8,137.60 USD. The owner of the property, Benjamin Slade, revealed that insurers weren't happy with the situation, explaining "they've had claims for all sorts of things like lions biting people, but never have they heard of a peacock sexually attacking a car before."

The odd thing is that the car's paint color, coincidentally named Peacock Blue, matches the plumage of a male peacock (female peahens are brown), which has led some to speculate the culprit might in fact be gay. Though Gaywheels.com lists Lexus as being a gay friendly company, we can't comment on whether or not that extends to our gay avian friends.

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Dunno what model Lex, just thought it was quite a laugh. Another site reported it was an IS model...dunno what generation though.

Lexus Design Team...

 

I read this one on the Passionate Pursuit.com and I'm thinking that the peakock isn't actually gay, it is probably just fending off other males.

 

lol, officially sex on wheels

 

LOL !! Any pics of the car ?

 

Jealous Peacock ..
Like any male defending his patch, Ron does his best to banish potential love rivals.

Unfortunately, this fellow's a little confused about who his competitors are.

Ron, a peacock , has begun attacking any bright blue cars which drive into his territory at a stately home.

In his latest assault, on a blue Lexus, he scratched and dented every panel - causing £4,000 worth of damage.

His next victim? Ron the peacock eyes up a bright blue car at his home, Maunsel House in North Newton, Somerset

Ron's owner, Sir Benjamin Slade, said: "He doesn't seem to be bothered by other birds, but the peacock-blue cars just drive him wild.

"He suddenly becomes aggressive and can't control himself."

Ron lives with 12 other peacocks on the baronet's 13th century Maunsel House estate in North Newton, Somerset.

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The damage left on the Lexus by the peacock's ferocious attack

The owner of the Lexus used to work at the estate but has now left. Luckily, her insurance company agreed to pay for the damage.

Sir Benjamin said: "Ron literally pecked and scratched the Lexus all over. Fortunately, the owner wasn't in it at the time."

Ornithologist Quenton Spratt, at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said it was likely the peacock saw blue cars as a threat.

He said: "I've come across this in the past. I suspect the peacock thinks the car is a bird.

Larger than life aristocrat Sir Benjamin Slade has warned visitors not to drive blue cars when coming to the estate

"They are very territorial and will try to fight the car off by pecking it, as they would with another bird.

"Blue cars probably compound it, as they associate bright colours with a male."

He added: "Peacocks have very sharp spurs and can do some real damage."

Sir Benjamin, however, has another theory. He believes that Ron is gay and wants to mate with the bright cars.

Now the eccentric millionaire has posted warning signs all over the estate's 100-acre parkland.

Sir Benjamin bought Maunsel House in the 1980s when it was a dilapidated county pile.

He famously spent 18 months testing the DNA of Slades around the world to find a relative to inherit his £7.5million home.

Of the 15,000 applicants, the most likely to inherit is Isaac Slade, 24-year-old lead singer of American band The Fray.