‘F*cking Hell!’ Viral Video Shows Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Attacked by an Ostrich in Texas
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson cursed on Sunday as he was targeted by a rogue ostrich while on what appeared to be a drive-thru safari with his family in Texas.
A clip uploaded to Instagram by Johnson’s wife Carrie Johnson showed the 60-year-old sitting in a car with one of his children when the bird approached his window.
The ostrich sized up the politician and went in for a bite, seemingly making contact with the former Conservative Party leader.
“Oh cripes!” Johnson screamed. “Fucking hell!”
Mrs. Johnson commented on the clip, “Too funny not to share.”
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The Sun reported Johnson’s ostrich encounter took place at a Texas wildlife center as he and his family vacationed in the US. As the outlet noted, Johnson is no stranger to awkward public moments:
Boris has become known for his baffoonish blunders over the years, particularly during his time as Mayor of London and then in Downing Street.
But he has generally been able to lean into the embarrassment for his own benefit.
While mayor, he got stuck on a zipwire holding a pair of Union Jack flags as he marked Team GB’s first gold medal at the capital’s 2012 Olympic Games.
On another occasion, he knocked over a 10-year-old boy as he rushed to score a rugby try during a trade mission to Tokyo, Japan, in 2015.
In 2017, while Foreign Secretary, he was accused of “incredible insensitivity” after reciting part of a colonial-era Rudyard Kipling poem in front of dignitaries in the Shwedagon Pagoda, the most sacred Buddhist site in Yangon, Myanmar.
