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Hexenherz 04/07/18 10:59:22 AM #1: |
https://globalnews.ca/news/4118233/17-year-ban-lifted-nova-scotia-man-seagulls-destroyed-room-at-empress-hotel-victoria/
A Nova Scotia man is once again allowed to stay at Victorias Fairmont Empress Hotel after a hilarious story involving a flock of seagulls and pepperoni got him banned from the establishment 17 years ago. Nick Burchill posted the story on Facebook and it has since gone viral. He says in 2001, his employer was hosting a conference at the hotel. Burchill was also in the Canadian Naval Reserve and when he told his Navy friends he was coming out west, they asked him to bring some Brothers Pepperoni, a local delicacy, from Halifax. He filled a suitcase with pepperoni, but the airline misplaced the bag. It was delivered to the Empress the next day and Burchill decided to keep the pepperoni cool. I knew that the pepperoni would still be good,' writes Burchill. It had only been at room temperature for a short time. It would, however, be quite some time before I could turn it over to my friends. His room, which faced the harbour, did not have a refrigerator, so Burchill decided to open the window as it was a chilly April day. I lifted one of the sashes and spread the packages of pepperoni out on the table and windowsill, he writes. Then, I went for a walk for about 4 or 5 hours. When he returned, he arrived only to find an entire flock of seagulls in his room. He thinks there may have been nearly 40 of the birds gleefully eating the pepperoni. In case you were wondering, Brothers TNT Pepperoni does NASTY things to a seagulls digestive system, Burchill wrote. As you would expect, the room was covered in seagull crap. What I did not realize until then was that seagulls also drool especially when they eat pepperoni. Im sure you have an image in your head. Now remember that I have just walked into the room and startled all of these birds. They immediately started flying around and crashing into things as they desperately tried to leave the room through the small opening by which they had entered. Burchill says seagulls were crashing into the closed windows in an attempt to leave. The result was a tornado of seagull excrement, feathers, pepperoni chunks and fairly large birds whipping around the room. The lamps were falling. The curtains were trashed. The coffee tray was just disgusting. Finally, Burchill managed to open the windows and while most of the seagulls left immediately, one tried to re-enter to grab another piece of pepperoni. Burchill was so agitated he took off his shoe and threw it at the bird. Both went out the window. One large seagull remained in the room and it did not want to leave. In a moment of clarity, I grabbed a bath towel and jumped it, Burchill wrote. It started to freak out, so I wrapped it in the towel and threw it out of the window. I had forgotten that seagulls cannot fly when they are wrapped in a towel. The seagull was unharmed, but a group of tourists were very surprised when first a shoe, and then a wrapped-up seagull, came hurtling out the window. When Burchill looked back at his room, there was a lot of damage. He only had a few minutes before an important company dinner, so he went to retrieve his shoe, which was covered in mud. The shoe was a mess, he says. I took it back to the room. By this time, I had close the windows and the air was becoming quite ripe with the smell of digested pepperoni and fish. He rinsed the mud off the shoe in the washroom but was now left with one wet shoe and one dry shoe. So he tried to dry the wet shoe with the hairdryer when the phone rang. As Burchill went into the room to answer it, the power went off. It turned out that the hairdryer, which he had left on to dry the shoe, had fallen into the sink full of water and caused the outage. --- RS3: UltimaSuende . 99 WC / 89/99 Fishing. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Hexenherz 04/07/18 10:59:47 AM #2: |
I dont know how much of the hotels power I knocked out, but at that point I decided I needed help, Burchill said.
He called the front desk and they sent someone to help. I can still remember the look on the ladys face when she opened the door, he writes. I had absolutely no idea what to tell her, so I just said, Im sorry and I went to dinner. When I came back, my things had been moved to a much smaller room. He thought that was the end of it, but his company received a letter banning him from staying at the Empress. In his Facebook letter, Burchill writes to the Empress: I have matured and I admit responsibility for my actions. I come to you, hat in hand, to apologize for the damage I had indirectly come to cause, and to ask you reconsider my lifetime ban from the property. "I hope that you will see fit to either grant me a pardon, or consider my 18 years away from the Empress as time served.' Staff at the Fairmont Empress confirmed to Global News that the hotels rooms division director, Ryan Reardon, did inform Burchill verbally that he will once again be welcome as a guest. They also said Burchill sent them a package of Brothers Pepperoni as a peace offering. Global News reached out to Burchill but had not received a response by publishing time. --- RS3: UltimaSuende . 99 WC / 89/99 Fishing. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DrizztLink 04/07/18 11:01:39 AM #3: |
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MrResetti 04/07/18 11:02:44 AM #4: |
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Offworlder1 04/07/18 11:03:08 AM #5: |
This guy was an idiot for what he did and deserved to be ban from the hotel for being so stupid.
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Hexenherz 04/07/18 11:06:47 AM #6: |
Offworlder1 posted...
This guy was an idiot for what he did and deserved to be ban from the hotel for being so stupid. It's so funny though. --- RS3: UltimaSuende . 99 WC / 89/99 Fishing. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Turtlebread 04/07/18 11:08:36 AM #7: |
Offworlder1 posted...
This guy was an idiot for what he did and deserved to be ban from the hotel for being so stupid. man i bet everyone loves you at parties --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MelzezDoor 04/07/18 11:11:22 AM #8: |
Hexenherz posted...
I had forgotten that seagulls cannot fly when they are wrapped in a towel. lmao --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Thekiller37 04/07/18 11:16:19 AM #9: |
They also said Burchill sent them a package of Brothers Pepperoni as a peace offering. Inb4 it gets left out and the whole thing starts all over again --- Head of the Benevolent Church of the 3-13 Archer. "I'm the stripper your husband hired." ~anonymous. Ike smash n chill: https://discord.gg/g8f73Yc ... Copied to Clipboard!
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chill02 04/08/18 1:03:27 PM #10: |
Hexenherz posted...
Finally, Burchill managed to open the windows and while most of the seagulls left immediately, one tried to re-enter to grab another piece of pepperoni. :^) --- Ave, true to Caesar. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Hexenherz 04/08/18 7:45:10 PM #11: |
If they ever do a reboot of Meet the Parents I really hope this whole story is included as a scene.
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NES4EVER 04/08/18 7:57:02 PM #12: |
Saw this on the news a few days ago and laughed out loud. Such an absurd story.
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Rika_Furude 04/10/18 6:57:08 AM #14: |
Wow
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NeonOctopus 04/10/18 6:57:53 AM #15: |
MelzezDoor posted...
Hexenherz posted...I had forgotten that seagulls cannot fly when they are wrapped in a towel. --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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FratMilkyHolme 04/12/18 5:42:12 AM #16: |
This has got to be the plot of some sitcom
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Mister_Spyker 04/12/18 8:04:16 AM #18: |
This would be amazing if the man was Rowan Atkinson.
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Kineth 04/12/18 8:16:10 AM #19: |
The Benny Hill theme should have been playing during that whole debacle.
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Ricemills 04/14/18 5:45:25 AM #21: |
this story sounds too hilarious to be real, but feels very real at the same time.
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a_riot04 04/14/18 6:11:42 AM #24: |
10/10 would read again.
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hockeybub89 04/14/18 6:20:30 AM #25: |
I am a happier person now that I know this story
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1NfamousACE_2 04/14/18 6:34:16 AM #26: |
Goats posted...
This could be a John Candy movie so easily More like Kevin James --- New signature needed, acquire within from management ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Hicks233 04/15/18 11:14:46 PM #28: |
RedWhiteBlue posted...
Can I get a tl;dr No. Read the story, it's worth it. --- http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid=9458 So says Mr. Stewart. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Cookie Bag 04/18/18 6:34:31 AM #30: |
Mister_Spyker posted...
This would be amazing if the man was Rowan Atkinson. I actually fucking imagined the dude as if it was rowan atkinson wahahahaha --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Dash_Harber 04/20/18 6:42:26 AM #32: |
Yeah that ... I ... he ... uhh ... yeah, I got nothing. That's ridiculously hilarious.
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HotMaladorianAI 04/20/18 6:43:46 AM #33: |
Banish him from the overworld!
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AeroFlash15 04/20/18 6:49:57 AM #34: |
Lol
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cjsdowg 04/22/18 5:57:09 AM #36: |
Offworlder1 posted...
This guy was an idiot for what he did and deserved to be ban from the hotel for being so stupid. I agree. To me the worst part of this is that he causes all this mess, knocks out the powers and just calls someone else to fix his mess. --- Bender: Well, everybody, I just saved a turtle. What have you done with your lives? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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gmanthebest 04/22/18 6:04:59 AM #37: |
cjsdowg posted...
Offworlder1 posted...This guy was an idiot for what he did and deserved to be ban from the hotel for being so stupid. He's just like, "I needed help. So I just called the cleaning lady and just peaced out." That is good pepperoni though. Always get some on weekend trips to Halifax. --- What do I feel when I shoot an enemy? Recoil. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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KLouD_KoNNeCteD 04/22/18 6:10:27 AM #38: |
My reaction reading this story...
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cjsdowg 04/22/18 6:21:32 AM #40: |
Something else that kind of irks me about this story. Is how he adds in that he was moved to a smaller room. I don't know why that bothers me however.
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dummy420 04/24/18 5:17:16 AM #42: |
Wow that gave me a good chuckle. I love how it's described so casually like this is his every day life. Sorry about that I gotta go to dinner. The rest of the table probably didn't believe that shit.
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Flintgrandad 04/26/18 5:30:04 AM #43: |
Hexenherz posted...
Burchill was also in the Canadian Naval Reserve and when he told his Navy friends he was coming out west, they asked him to bring some Brothers Pepperoni, a local delicacy, from Halifax. lol ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Flintgrandad 04/30/18 3:06:45 AM #45: |
Hexenherz posted...
Burchill was also in the Canadian Naval Reserve and when he told his Navy friends he was coming out west, they asked him to bring some Brothers Pepperoni, a local delicacy, from Halifax. lol ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Shotgunnova 04/30/18 3:20:56 AM #46: |
chill02 posted...
Hexenherz posted...Found the CEgull.Finally, Burchill managed to open the windows and while most of the seagulls left immediately, one tried to re-enter to grab another piece of pepperoni. --- Take me down from the ridge where the summer ends And watch the city spread out just like a jet's flame ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Panthera 04/30/18 3:37:39 AM #47: |
Ricemills posted...
this story sounds too hilarious to be real, but feels very real at the same time. It's that very special brand of absurd that you know must be real. A fake story would either be more plausible or more blatantly over the top. --- We clasped our hands, our hands in praise of a conquerors right to tyranny ... Copied to Clipboard!
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spikethedevil 04/30/18 3:43:48 AM #48: |
DrizztLink posted...
That's some Fawlty Towers shit. Love how this went over the Americans heads. --- A garbage pod!? It's a smegging garbage pod! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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FratMilkyHolme 05/02/18 6:16:36 AM #49: |
This has got to be the plot of some sitcom
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SGT_Conti 05/04/18 5:53:56 AM #51: |
I'm glad this topic has been bumped because I just read the story and it's hilarious.
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Lordgold666 05/04/18 6:01:37 AM #52: |
The gulls lol
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FratMilkyHolme 05/10/18 6:15:55 AM #55: |
This has got to be the plot of some sitcom
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dummy420 05/10/18 8:35:03 AM #56: |
FratMilkyHolme posted...
This has got to be the plot of some sitcom I really hope this is just one guys standard way of living. --- Trying is the first step towards failure, so just dont give it a shot and you cant dissapoint. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Sad_Face 05/10/18 9:02:13 AM #57: |
Panthera posted...
Ricemills posted...this story sounds too hilarious to be real, but feels very real at the same time. I don't think you can anymore over the top than this, unless you mean a missile crisis- oh wait. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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