Hotel lifts ban on man whose suitcase of pepperoni caused seagull chaos

Innocent mistake turned hotel room into ‘a tornado of seagull excrement, feathers, pepperoni chunks and fairly large birds’

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A Canadian hotel has forgiven a customer banned from the premises 17 years ago after his pepperoni stash attracted a flock of crazed seagulls.

Nick Burchill wrote an open letter to the Fairmont Empress Hotel in British Columbia on Facebook in which he apologised for the bizarre incident, which occurred in 2001.

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