Drunk Woman Takes Home Seagull, Has To Bleach Her Whole Apartment

Some of us get a little clepty when we drink and take anything that's not nailed down, and that trait got one woman into some trouble after her treasure from a night out left disease all over her apartment.

22-year-old Erin Punton went out for a wild night with her friends and was returning home when she spotted the bird outside of a pub.

Drunk, she naturally reached down and picked up a seagull, and walked it home under her arm like a football, taking videos along the way.

In her video, she's singing Valerie by Amy Winehouse. She tells the camera, "He's a beauty.  He actually wants to stop in my room and everything but I’ve got nowhere for him."

The seagull was just along for the ride, and didn't seem to care where he ended up one way or another.

The next morning, Erin woke up and when she walked out into her living room, the bird was flying around.

Sure enough, after checking her videos on her phone, she realized she was how the bird got in the home.

She felt bad, so she took the seagull to a vet to get checked out, and sure enough, the bird had bird flu.

Bird Flu

Bird Flu is a type of influenza that spreads amongst birds, but can, in rare cases, be transmitted to humans through touching infected birds, bedding or preparing infected meat.

Symptoms in humans include high temperatures, feeling hot or shivery, aching muscles and headaches.

Dealing With The Bird Flu

Erin said, "I saw the bird outside Wetherspoons and managed to pick him up without even a thought. I don’t even know what made me pick him up."

"I put him in my sitting room with a blanket," she said. "When I woke up in the morning, I’d forgotten and he was just floating around the sitting room."

Explaining the diagnosis of the bird, "I dropped him off at the vets the next day in a box and was told he had bird flu. I felt sick and bleached my whole house."

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