The Vox Box

Tue., Jan. 13, 2009

I Love Ice Cream, but Seriously

I love ice cream, but apparantly not as much as 50 year old Dragan Djuric. On New Years Eve Djuric and his wife were walking along a Laguna Beach boardwalk with their ice cream cones when a flock of birds, including a rare breed of sea gull, attacked them. The birds pooped on Djuric's head and attempted to grab his wife's ice cream. The couple dropped their ice cream, and Djuric grabbed a stick and began beating one of the birds, a rare Heerman's gull. The gull suffered a broken wing and was later put to sleep, while Djuric was arrested for animal cruelty.

Read the story here

Did Djuric overreact, or was he justified in beating the bird with a stick? What kind of ice cream is worth beating a bird over?

Posted Jan. 13, 2009, 7:59 p.m.

In 2006, then-editor Steve Smith of The Spokesman-Review had the idea of starting a publication for an often forgotten audience: teenagers. The Vox Box was a continuation of the Vox, an all-student staffed newspaper published by The Spokesman-Review. High school student journalists who staffed the Vox made all content decisions as they learn about the trade of journalism. This blog's mission was to give students an opportunity to publish their voices. The Vox Box and the Vox wrapped up in June 2009, but you can follow former staffers' new blog at http://voxxiez.blogspot.com.