![]() ![]() And last week, he sent the Fairmont Empress a letter of apology.ĬORNISH: The hotel accepted it and told him he's welcome back any time. He admits responsibility for what happened. KELLY: Nick Burchill says after nearly 18 years, he has matured. KELLY: Threw it out the window right into the hotel's afternoon high tea.ĬORNISH: Yeah. So I went in, and I grabbed a towel, and I jumped the seagull, and I wrapped it in a towel and threw it out the window. It had a big piece of pepperoni in its mouth. And both the seagull and the shoe went out the window.īURCHILL: I was chasing the seagull around. So I took off one of my shoes, and I threw it in the direction of the seagull. It was a real mess.ĬORNISH: And two of the seagulls wouldn't leave.īURCHILL: One was bouncing around on the windowsill, and I was kind of losing my temper at this point. And now we've got seagulls flying around, the curtains are falling down, the lamps are falling down. ![]() So you can imagine what the room looked like even before I came back. They rushed to the window, 30 or 40 birds all trying to get out at the same time, and pepperoni - everywhere.īURCHILL: They had been there for a long time eating Brothers TNT pepperoni. KELLY: When he opened the door, the seagulls went wild. It was somewhere between 30 and 40 seagulls that had come in through this open window while I was gone. And I don't mean just a couple of seagulls. He told this story to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.īURCHILL: When I came back, the room was full of seagulls. He thought his pepperoni was safe and well chilled and he left.ĬORNISH: That's when he says things went wrong. NICK BURCHILL: When I showed up at the hotel, I was kind of worried that it would be warm, so I laid it out on the window ledge on the table in the room. So he filled a suitcase full of pepperoni. They asked him to bring some pepperoni from back east from Brothers Meats in Halifax, a local delicacy. He was out there on business and planning to visit some Navy buddies in the area. "The result was a tornado of seagull excrement, feathers, pepperoni chunks and fairly large birds whipping around the room.This next story is a series of unfortunate events that involves a suitcase of pepperoni, a flock of seagulls and a lifetime ban from a Canadian hotel.ĬORNISH: Seventeen years ago, Nick Burchill was staying at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in British Columbia. "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," said Burchill, who lives in Dartmouth. "I didn't have time to count, but there must have been 40 of them and they had been in my room, eating pepperoni for a long time." "I remember walking down the long hall and opening the door to my room to find an entire flock of seagulls in my room," Burchill said in a recent letter of apology to the 4-star hotel. Writing on Facebook, he recounts that he decided to leave it near an open window so the chilly air would keep the meats fresh. It's the ubiquitous seaside birds that deserve at least part of the blame for getting Nova Scotian Nick Burchill blacklisted at the Fairmont Empress hotel in Victoria, Canada, one fateful day in 2001.īurchill had planned to send a suitcase full of pepperoni to his buddies in the Canadian navy. No, not the English new-wave band A Flock of Seagulls. Rick Madonik/Toronto Star via Getty Images Gulls compete for the airborne material at Toronto's Cherry Beach. ![]()
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