CROW CAUSING CAMPUS TERROR

Air rage claims up to 20 victims at college

BEAK BUSINESS Bird has swooped on staff & students Something hit me in the head then a bird flew away. It did draw blood AIDAN O’FLAHERTY CORK YESTERDAY

A COLLEGE is dealing with a real life version of Angry Birds after up to 20 attacks by a rogue crow.

Staff and students at Cork Institute of Technology are all in a flap over the avian aggressor swooping on them from above. Aidan O’flaherty was targeted early on Monday as he was returning from a training session. He said: “I was just minding my own business when all of a sudden something hit me in the head. “At first I thought it was the branch of a tree but then a bird flew away. “I was informed afterwards it was a jackdaw and not a crow, I don’t know the difference. “It was very early in the morning. I didn’t expect anything to swoop down and hit me on the head. “He hit me quite hard actually. It did draw blood.” It has now emerged two people have received medical treatment after other attacks in the city. Nursing staff at CIT are understood to have administered tetanus jabs and prescribed antibiotics for people injured by the vicious bird. Mr O’flaherty told the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork’s REDFM he thought it was an isolated incident until he sent around an email. He added: “I just sat down in my office and couldn’t believe what happened and I decided to send out an email asking was anyone else [attacked] or was it an isolated incident. “Low and behold at least a dozen came back with people reporting they had to get tetanus [injection]. “I didn’t get a tetanus, I didn’t even think of that.” Aidan said he is not sure if it is one rogue bird or a group of crows which are known as “a murder”. He added: “I would imagine it’s not the same because it happened in two locations and I think it would possibly be territorial or protecting a chick. “He may have been on the ground, I didn’t notice it, but I may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time and it did what it had to do. “We noticed some of their behaviour yesterday in regards to other birds and a chick on the ground and it seemed to be the same thing, just protecting it.”