Mommy's Little Vulture

Funny is hard to do. This is funny: Joyce Newman misses her vulture.

She adopted it seven years ago, agreeing to pay $300 a year for its care. Usually she sent more, up to $1,000.

Initially the staff of the Pelican Man's Bird Sanctuary in Sarasota tried to steer her toward something smaller, maybe a blue jay.

Newman, a New Yorker in her 60s, said no way to the jay. "For $300 a year," she told them, "I want the biggest (bleeping) bird you got."


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