A drunk woman picked up a seagull and took it home before finding out it had bird flu.
Erin Punton was on her way home from a night out with friends when she spotted the bird outside a pub.
The 22-year-old scooped it up and carried it home.
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The next morning, Erin woke up with no recollection of the night before and was shocked when she found a seagull in her living room.
Erin took it to the vets and “felt sick” when they told her it had bird flu.
“I saw the bird outside Wetherspoons and managed to pick him up without even a thought,” Erin, from Ashington, Northumberland, told What’s the Jam.
“I don’t even know what made me pick him up.
“I put him in my sitting room with a blanket.
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“When I woke up in the morning, I’d forgotten and he was just floating around the sitting room.
“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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An intoxicated Erin filmed herself with the seagull tucked under her arm while singing Valerie by The Zutons.
In the clip, she said: “He’s a beauty.
“He actually wants to stop in my room and everything but I’ve got nowhere for him.”
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