Wild peacocks bring delight, despair to Italian village

The birds, with their iridescent, sweeping trains, perch on rooftops and fences across Punta Marina, a village on the Adriatic Sea coast in the Emilia Romagna region, east of Bologna. Their booming numbers have split the town in two -- one side thinks they should be left alone; the other wants them taken to more suitable pastures. The once-revered creatures appear throughout nearby Ravenna's prized mosaics as a symbol of immortality -- but 81-year-old Marco Manzoli, a retired bus driver, said they were essentially delinquents who poo a lot.