Las Vegas, Nevada – A Canadian man broke into a Las Vegas strip resort’s flamingo habitat on a recent visit Sin City. According to the Las Vegas Metro Police Department, 33-year-old Mitchell Fairbarn stole a flamingo from an enclosure at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino during the early morning hours on Tuesday.
In the process, Fairbarn allegedly injured multiple birds in the flamingo habitat and managed to extract a flamingo named Peachy. The man took the bird knapped victim into an elevator and then to a hotel room. Security footage shows Fairbarn “wrestling it by the neck and legs in the hallway” along the way.
According to the police report, Fairbarn security footage shows Fairbarn “laughing in the video and says ‘I’m taking it home.’
After being confronted by the authorities Fairbarn claimed that he entered the flamingo enclosure after seeing a bird “in distress.” Adding, “He stated he knows that ‘popping’ the wing back into its place [is] a common practice for birds, such as ducks. He has knowledge of this because he is a farm boy.”
Peachy suffered a badly injured wing that required stitches. Two other birds in the habitat area were also injured.
Fairbarn’s escapade resulted in four felony counts of animal cruelty. The arrest report read: “In addition to Fairbarn having on his cellphone multiple videos and pictures of him torturing a flamingo in his hotel room, by choking it and throwing it to the ground multiple times, while he is laughing about it, and with absolutely no regard for the safety and wellness of the animals, he was arrested and charged with four counts of Willful/ Malicious Torture/ Maim/ Kill an Animal.”
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There are so many sick and evil people in this world. Not to mention dumb as a box of rocks.
I Pray 🙏 that None of these Beautiful Birds Died.Because.it Doesn’t say or tell you and let me tell Something If The Law Don’t give this asshole 10 years Or more that’s messed up it’s Time Society puts Animal Abusers in Thier place by Making them pay for what these Evil Humans Do to Animals.
If it were up to me all evil people who harm animals would be six foot under to feed the ground.
Takes a real man to beat up a bird!
REAL BIG MAN –
MUST HAVE A BIG VAGINA TOO!
No offense ladies.
Asshole should be banned from every hotel and facililty in Las Vegas. Ban him from the entire STATE of Nevada! Banhim from the United Ststes altogether.
How the hell did no one stop this jerk while he was stealing these birds???
Thank God he didn’t kill these poor birds.
Too bad the mob isn’t still in Vegas – they’d break his legs and drive him out to the desert and LEAVE the POS there for the vultures.
felony.. stealing, its gotta be a protected type of bird, if not .. 7yrs sentence or more
As a Canadian I say…keep him string him up we don’t have death penalty here..that poor bird just awful.
Nah. We ethical 🇨🇦 odon’t want him back. Throw him in prison.
So far the law has been shamefully inadequate when it comes to justly sentencing animal abusers for their cruel and malevolent crimes against animals. This has got to change! I strongly encourage the law to take this sadistic treatment of these birds seriously. Cruelty, terror, injury, pain is the same for all living beings…when is it ever okay to do this to other species even though they are not fellow humans? The law must do the fair and decent thing here and prosecute this criminal to the max degree, which most certainly must include jail time, a fine and reimbursement to the Flamingo Hotel for vet costs and/or replacement of the birds Mitchell Fairbarn stole and tortured. It must go on record that since he so gleefully enjoyed his torture of these innocent birds, he must be banned from ever owning or working with animals for his lifetime.
Another fucking human thinking it’s fun to torture another species.
Again, I’m ashamed to be a human.
Entitled Canadian POS! Put it in ICE cell!
Entitled Canadian POS! Put it in ICE cell!
I despise animal abusers and one more thing….I also despise MAGRATS who think ICE are some real men to be feared. ICE needs to, by and large, MEET THE ROSENBERGS.
This piece of garbage deserves to be tortured and abused so he know what it feels like. It’s stunning that he got that far with the flamingo and security wasn’t on him within a minute. Surveillance and security seemed to be sleeping on the job. Bless that innocent flamingo who was faced with dealing with yet another piece of human scum.
Throw the creep in the electric chair and be done with it! Serial killer sicko in the making.
What — no racist comments about the fact that this POS is foreign white
trash and should be thrown to the ground by ICE then put on a plane bound for Ecuador, Libya, or South Sudan??? I expected better of all you bigoted National Animal News armchair warriors.
Canada, not Ecuador, Libya, or South Sudan . Facts from one armchair warrior to another.
throw this sick bastard in a cage with a Grizzly bear… I bet on the Grizzly to be the winner!! let him be torn to shreds
I bet he thinks he could beat a grizz🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
WHAT THE EFF!?!? I AM SO SICK OF HUMANS!
PEOPLE LIKE THIS NEED TO BE PUNISHED BIG TIME!
LOOONG JAIL TIME! BIG FINES! NEVER,EVER ALLOWED
TO HAVE, BE NEAR OR WORK WITH ANY KIND OF ANIMALS….EVER!
Hoping he receives the maximum punishment on those felony charges.
Animal abusers need to be held accountable for their crimes. These majestic birds are valuable beautiful examples from Mother Nature.
This man is an idiot!! I hope he is sentenced harshly!
WTF! Someone give him the same treatment!
What an asshole! and you took pictures of your disc, crusting cruelty! You are a sick bastard.Get your sorry ass back to Canada and never come into our country again!
YOU SUCK!!
We don’t want p.o.s’s like him back in Canada. Send him to hell.
Death penalty for animal abusers then let them rot in hell !
Death penalty for animal abusers then let them rot in hell !
need some prison time. No animal deserves to be mistreated
I hope he gets street justice! Burn in hell you pos