“The smell is like a thousand rotting corpses.”
Dozens of black vultures have swarmed a $700K home in West Palm Beach — defecating and vomiting on nearly every inch of the country club property — which was purchased by a New York couple and supposed to be their vacation house.
“It’s a disaster,” said homeowner Anthony Casimano in an interview with WPBF.
“It’s a laughable disaster. You can’t make this up.”
Anthony and his wife, Siobhan, came forward this week to speak out about the Hitchcock-like horror story that’s been unfolding at their luxurious Florida home following repeated run-ins with the vomiting and defecating birds of prey.
The couple, which has a 2-year-old daughter, can’t even park their car or enjoy themselves at the three-bedroom residence — located within the Ibis Golf and Country Club — without getting bombarded.
“The vultures just vomit everywhere,” Siobhan told The Palm Beach Post. “Defecating and vomiting. It’s just gross. We can’t even go back down to the house…The smell is like a thousand rotting corpses.”
Video posted online Wednesday shows dozens of the birds scattered across the Casimano residence.
The couple hasn’t even brought their daughter down to see the home yet on account of the stomach-churning “situation.”
“They’ll probably attack her,” Anthony told WPBF.
Since purchasing the house four months ago, the Casimano’s have shelled out at least $3,000 to repair the damage the vultures have caused. The couple’s screen-enclosed pool has reportedly become ground-zero for the bird activity.
“They ripped all the screens out,” Anthony said. “They threw up. They pooped all over the place.”
At one point, the Casimanos said they counted at least “a hundred” vultures in their backyard.
“There’s motion in the yard so I check it out,” Anthony explained.
The couple’s neighbor, Cheryl Katz, has also experienced the vulture swarm — and blames it on an elderly resident who lives nearby and refuses to stop feeding the local wildlife.
“I drove in my driveway and saw the cutest raccoon holding a sandwich in both hands and eating it,” Katz recalled of one incident, noting how the resident often leaves roasted chickens and trays of sandwiches out for the animals.
“My pool guy’s afraid to come here.”
Katz told the Palm Beach Post that one of her worst encounters happened in May, when she found nearly two dozen “large” vultures inside her pool enclosure.
“Imagine 20 large vultures trapped, biting each other — and they can bite through bones,” she said. “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.”
Several other residents living in the 1,887-acre country club development have reported seeing the birds on their property.
“They’re big…so they do a lot of damage to screen enclosures and the like,” said Gordon Holness, president of the Ibis Property Owners Association. “We called Fish and Wildlife in to give the lady [feeding the animals] a warning. We also issued a violation notice. She has to appear in front of our Rules and Compliance Committee and will get a fine.”
Bird experts say there’s not much the residents can do, seeing how residents need a permit to kill the federally-protected vultures.
“If you kill the black vulture in an effort to protect your livestock, you’re subject to prosecution for violating federal law,” explained Stan Smith, a program assistant in agriculture and natural resources at the Ohio State University Extension. “Go figure.”
Smith suggests killing one of the birds and then hanging it in a tree — so his feathered friends can see it.
“A black-headed vulture will not go within eyesight of its own dead, which is bizarre,” Smith told the Palm Beach Post. “They eat roadkill but if they see their own, they will not go near it.”
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