Neighborhood white peacock incapacitated by mailman.

The peacock was following the mailman on a driveway, residential security footage appears to show. Initially, the mailman appears to try to wave the bird away, but he then picks up an object and throws it at the peacock, according to footage.

Security footage later shows the peacock standing near the mail truck in the roadway. The mailman emerges from the side of the mail truck and hits the bird with an object, causing the peacock to flail on the ground, unable to get up.

Thornton said her father found the peacock xlying in the street, incapacitated,' shortly after the altercation took place. The mailman had left the scene, she said.

….Pasadena Humane’s animal control division has … completed its investigation into the altercation. The team has sent the case to the District Attorney’s office for consideration of formal charges, McManus said.

The results of the animal control’s investigation were not shared as of Wednesday, Sept. 30.

The U.S. Postal Service also was reviewing the incident internally following the August attack, said Kristina Uppal, a strategic communications specialist with the USPS. As of Wednesday, Sept. 30, an active investigation with the Office of the Inspector General remains ongoing.

Uppal declined to comment further on the details of the investigation, but said that the Pasadena Post Office reached out to Pasadena Humane as early as April 2025 with the carrier’s concerns about the bird along that route.

Pasadena Humane previously said that it had no record of requests from USPS for assistance concerning peacocks in the last several years. It also had no record of any previous reports or complaints about Sugar from USPS or other members of the

…. The white peacock named Sugar was relocated to a private ranch in Northern California after recovering from his injuries incurred from a U.S. Postal Service worker in August.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/30/us-news/beloved-neighborhood-peacock-sugar-gets-ritzy-relocation-after-recovering-from-mailman-attack/

https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2026/09/30/pasadena-peacock-sugar-now-fully-recovered-after-alleged-attack-has-relocated-to-northern-california/

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