Bakersfield Condors Bring Live Condor to Game...

The Bakersfield Condors, a minor league hockey team of the ECHL, decided that bringing a live condor to their game on Friday would be a great idea.  The condor, named Queen Victoria, was supposed to stand on a hockey stick perch during the playing of the National Anthem.  Although, "Vicky," the birds nickname, had other plans and decided to escape the arena through the team tunnel.  Here is footage from this odd, yet hilarious night in Bakersfield.

And a nice quote from the Bakersfield Californian newspaper:

"By Monday, the video had been shown on the Today show, Good Morning America, a slew of ESPN shows and on dozens of local news outlets across the country."

"Vicky, who originally came from a government condor study program, cannot be reintroduced to the wild, Krathwohl said. But he has high hopes that a breeding program at his facility will ultimately yield condor chicks that can add to the dwindling numbers of the South American species."

“Vicky was not hurt. She was not stressed,” he said. “The only one that got hurt was the idiot who brought the condor.”