‘Evil’ rooster terrorizes Queens neighborhood, attacking residents
An “evil,” blood-thirsty rooster is terrorizing a Queens neighborhood — along with his cock-y crew, according to the latest victim to run “a-fowl” of the belligerent bird this week.
Leon Suseran, 30, told The Post on Friday that he had just left his home on 169th Street in Jamaica to catch a bus to work Thursday morning when he suddenly “felt a peck on the back” of his left hand.
“When I turned around, I saw blood was gushing out,” he said.
“This rooster kept charging at me … It was almost as if it was evil, so evil,” Suseran said, adding that he thought the vicious fowl may have been trained to fight.
“I had to deal with two things — the charging rooster and the gushing blood. I was trying to apply pressure, but at the same time this animal kept coming at me,” he said.
“I had to keep kicking it off,” but the riled-up rooster “did not let up.”
“So I made a run for it … and then I called 911,” said Suseran, who also went to an urgent-care clinic for a tetanus shot and antibiotics.
The NYPD confirmed that officers were called to the scene around 9 a.m. Thursday, and Suseran filmed the cops plucking up his crowing attacker and another rooster who’d been roaming the streets alongside it. Still, neither of the roosters were taken away as jailbirds.
The roosters and at least one hen have been ruffling feathers in the neighborhood for years, Suseran and other locals complained.
“It is a little offbeat. But there is a serious issue there,” Suseran said.
“We’ve seen them roaming around for years now, in the street and other people’s yards,” he said, saying that one of his neighbors was bitten on the ankle by one of the birds in June.
“What if it was a 70-year-old person or a shorter person, or what if it was a child” who was attacked, Suseran said.
“There are people who can’t defend themselves like I did. What if it went for someone’s eyes?”
Another neighbor, Kahza Mainuddin, 25, said she’d been “chased” by the rogue rooster — who also “scratched” another woman “up and down the legs.
“One of the roosters is good. He doesn’t bother anybody. But the other one, any time you walk by, he just attacks. He starts biting people,” Mainuddin said.
Another neighbor, who only gave the name Selwyn, said one of the birds once attacked his mother-in-law, “jumping on her back and pecking at her.
“They’re evil. They’ve got a mind of their own,” Selwyn said. “They’re notorious, man … They do whatever they want.”
City health codes show that roosters are prohibited as “pets.”
But the flock’s owner, Miguel Contreros, 48, insisted to The Post that his feathery friends are beloved in the neighborhood — and even cuddle up and sleep with his daughter.
“He never attacks … I don’t know what happened,” Contreros said of the rogue rooster — who followed a Post reporter in the street after slipping through bars in his owner’s front gate.
“The kids come and take pictures of them … they love the chickens,” he insisted.
The city’s Department of Health confirmed that a complaint was filed Thursday but said it was the only one on file for the address.
“We will be sending out an inspector to investigate,” a rep said.
Suseran, meanwhile, said he is forced to “keep vigilant” — with the feared flock still in his path on his morning commute Friday.
“The roosters were all around. … They were just walking around loose,” he complained.
Additional reporting by Amanda Woods
