By New York Post (World News) | Created at 2025-04-04 20:05:11 | Updated at 2025-04-05 00:20:34
4 hours ago
This bird’s battling baldness — one head wound at a time!
A “hormonal” hawk that terrorized bald men by dive-bombing their vulnerable noggins for weeks was finally captured in a small English village, neighbors said Friday.
The bloodthirsty bird wreaked havoc on roughly 50 people in Flamstead, Hertfordshire, just north of London, by swooping down and clawing their heads from behind — hospitalizing one resident and leaving others drenched in blood, according to BBC News.
In one hair-raising attack, the male Harris’s hawk left Jim Hewitt, 75, with a gaping dome gash as he walked to the store to get milk Wednesday, the outlet reported.
“[He] looked like he had been in a knife attack,” said neighbor Lizzy Atkinson, who found the retiree “covered in blood” — as the heartless hawk prepared to dive bomb him again.
“God forbid it happens to a child,” she said.
Hewitt, who was hospitalized for the scalp injury, said “it was a shock,” noting that he bled profusely because he’s “on double blood thinners.”
The bird-brained brute had reportedly attacked dozens of other men from behind since early March, including Steve Harris, 40, who said he was forced to wear a bike helmet on his daily jog.
Mail deliveries were also delayed to the village as postal workers’ feathers were ruffled by the sky-high savage.
Handyman and gardener Paul Boyes was attacked twice by the hawk.
“It really did hurt when it hit you,” he told The Guardian. “It comes up behind you, and its talons got me in the back of the head, and its other ones came round the front and got me on my forehead.”
The bird likely went ballistic due to a hormonal flare-up during breeding season — though it’s unclear why he harbored hatred for the follicly challenged, an expert said.
“All this dive-bombing, I think it’s hormonal, courtship, because it’s only started happening in the last couple of weeks: breeding season,” falconer Alan Greenhalgh told the UK Independent.
On Thursday, Harris captured the hawk by luring him into a shed in his garden and tossing a cage over the bird.
“It feels strange, a bit of a relief. We’ve all just wanted to get it caught,” said Harris, a physiotherapist, told the UK’s Press Association.
He said grateful neighbors can repay him by buying him a drink.
“I think I’ll be able to keep my wallet in my pocket next time I go to the pub,” Harris said.
