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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHow seagulls, pepperoni got Dartmouth man banned from posh B.C. hotel
The Fairmont Empress in Victoria has lifted its ban against Nick Burchill 17 years after dozens of seagulls trashed the Dartmouth, N.S., man's hotel room while feasting on enough pepperoni to fill his suitcase.
"I didn't like the feeling of being banned from somewhere," Burchill said. "So when I was out there last week for a different conference, I thought that I would approach The Empress and see if I could officially get my record cleared."
Burchill's story began with good intentions. He was taking a small suitcase full of Brothers Pepperoni a widely requested Halifax delicacy to some of his navy friends in the B.C. capital.
"It was a long flight, that time of the year where everyone travels, so the bag got lost, misplaced for a period of time," said Burchill, who wrote a widely shared Facebook post about the ordeal.
When the pepperoni finally arrived at the hotel, Burchill said he worried it would get warm because there was no fridge, so he laid the food out on a table near the window ledge and the chilly April air.
"And that's when things kind of went bad," said Burchill.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/seagulls-pepperoni-navy-fairmont-empress-1.4601675
This is well worth reading
Cirque du So-What
(25,939 posts)Glad he's no longer banned.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Hotels aren't particularly fond of people who leave rat and vermin food out.
Aristus
(66,369 posts)Mrs. Aristus and I have had high tea there a couple of times. But we've never taken a room. Way too much money!...
LisaM
(27,811 posts)He's wrong about East Coast seagulls, though. If he has ever tried eating Doritos at Clearwater Beach, he'd quickly learn how aggressive they are.