Man performs naked dance to calm angry pheasant

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A man has performed a naked dance to calm down an angry pheasant. After the bird became increasingly aggressive to the man’s neighbours, he decided on the unorthodox approach. He says he donned a one-sided G-string, and put “sticks between my butt cheeks as tail feathers and I was wagging my butt at him”. He added: “I think he was shocked into dismissal”.

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