Woman's drunken night ends with taking home a seagull carrying bird flu

A night out took a bizarre turn for one woman after she woke to find a seagull flapping around her living room—only to be told later it had bird flu.

Erin Punton, 22, from Northumberland, admitted she had no idea why she scooped up the bird from outside a Wetherspoons pub, saying it happened “without even a thought”.

“I saw the bird outside Wetherspoons and managed to pick him up without even a thought,” she explained.

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“I don’t even know what made me pick him up. I put him in my sitting room with a blanket.”

The following morning, she was stunned to discover the gull flying around her home.

“When I woke up in the morning, I’d forgotten and he was just floating around the sitting room,” she said.

After taking the seagull to a local vet, Ms Punton was told it had tested positive for bird flu.

The news left her feeling “sick”, prompting her to disinfect her home from top to bottom.

“I felt sick and bleached my whole house,” she said.

The night had been captured on video, showing Erin dancing to Valerie by The Zutons with the bird tucked under her arm.

In the clip, she can be heard saying:

“He’s a beauty. He actually wants to stop in my room and everything but I’ve got nowhere for him.”