A spacious four bedroom, two-storey house has extended property and is fairly priced - that's what is needed to make a perfect real estate purchase. But this Hopkinton, Rhode Island house has something extra that is making it a hard to sell property. It comes with lots of vultures. Real estate agent Patrick Murray is ready to compromise with $32, 900 for the house worth $222,800, but every time the predatory birds deter the deal.

A peacock that roamed into a Burger King Parking lot was beaten with a bat and stepped on. A man in his late teens or early twenties, as described by witnesses, saw the peacock sitting on the hood of a car as employees were feeding it. He grabbed the bird by the neck, hurled it at the pavement and started stomping on it. When asked by the employees what he was doing the man said "I'm killing a vampire!"

David Gregory Davis of Marysville might have never imagined that the goose that became the target of his gun in April will drag him to court. The 48-year-old, who faces an arraignment on June 26 in Yuba County Superior Court, has been charged with three misdemeanor charges in the fatal shooting of a pet goose named Wee Wee. According to the bird's owners, Todd Hulsey and Sharri Neel, Wee Wee was a friendly bird that would follow them along a riverbank on a fishing trip and wait for them at the gate when they returned home from work.

In a bid to get rid of the growing number of Canada geese in the city park and the nuisance caused by the birds' droppings, officials in Monterey, California have launched an annual campaign which will call on residents to coat the eggs with vegetable oil, suffocating the embryo inside. The campaign is a part of the 5-year-old federal order aimed at ending the nesting which causes damage and contaminates the parks and private land.

A Japan-bound Vietnam Airlines plane was forced to remain grounded for nearly four hours after a passenger spotted a white mouse on the plane. The aviation authorities suspect the mouse might have hitched a ride aboard the plane in the hand luggage or pocket of one of the passengers and eventually escaped. The Boeing 777 from the central city of Da Nang landed at the Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport late Saturday and was scheduled to fly to Japan but the flight was delayed after a passenger aboard the plane reported the airplane crew of the mouse.