Kicker: Misunderstanding mirrors

WOODY: Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha! Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha!

NICK EICHER, HOST: Yeah, Woody the Woodpecker is cracking up again!

And in Rockport, Massachusetts, life is imitating art.

Apparently there’s a real-life rogue cracking up the side-views on people’s cars.

FAVALORA: We’re dealing with a woodpecker that likes to break mirrors.

Turns out it’s mating season up there … and this Romeo is targeting what he sees as a rival for the lady woodpeckers.

Local man Benjamin Favalora.

FAVALORA: We’ve had close to 25 mirrors in the last 3-4 weeks broken.

When I heard this one … I immediately recalled a Seinfeld episode.

KRAMER: You got a problem with Woody Woodpecker?

GEORGE: Yeah. What is he, some sort of an instigator?

Mm-mm. No problem at all for Barbara Smith. She’s charmed by the renegade Romeo … or at least understands his point of view.

SMITH: And you look at yourself in the mirror and sometimes you do have to peck at that mirror. [laughs] You don’t like what you see!

Nah, this guy’s quite impressed with what he sees. It’s just that he has no time for that kind of self-reflection.

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