On Dale Drive in Cypress, they had a problem of the feathered kind. "My wife and I call him ‘Meanie,'" said Riley Richards. "Meanie" was a male peacock owned by Richards' daughter. She brought Meanie and a female peacock home a few months ago and that's when the attacks started. "When you have a big bird up that high and you're coming out the patio door and that bird comes down on you, it's terrifying" said neighbor Billie Rumsey.