Woman reveals she is permanently blind after a magpie ‘put a hole in her eye’ as she reacts to video of influencer getting attacked by the bird
An Australian woman has recalled being left permanently blind after a magpie stung her eye.
The woman named Kristy narrated the moment TikTok while responding to a video of influencer Sarah Jade being attacked by the bird.
‘A magpie gouged out my eye… My right eye was indeed plucked out by a magpie. I know it sounds too crazy to really believe,” she began.
‘It was 26 years ago, when I was five and am permanently blind in my right eye, but I was lucky enough to keep my eye.’
Kristy said she was picking flowers in her backyard when a magpie attacked her and attacked her eye.
Australian Kristy (pictured) has revealed she is permanently blind after a magpie ‘put a hole in her eye’ when she was just five years old
‘I was picking little daisies in my back garden when my sister called me and said, “Be careful, a magpie is coming flying at you from behind.”
‘I actually turned around and the magpie then started stinging me in the eye.’
Kristy said it was like ‘cracking an egg yolk’ as the magpie ‘made a hole with its beak all the way to the back of my eye’.
The story comes after Sarah, 24, shared terrifying images of herself being attacked by a magpie during her ‘hot girl walk’.
The footage shows the influencer cowering in fear after the magpie attacked her in the eye with its beak partially lodged in her eye socket.
‘This would be one of the most traumatic things that could happen to me. One: I’m afraid of birds. Second of all, it literally went in my eye,” she told viewers.
The woman named Kristy shared the moment on TikTok while responding to a video of influencer Sarah Jade being attacked by the bird
‘I actually didn’t know it was in my eye. I thought it just hit me in the side of the face until I watched the video back. I am traumatized. I feel sick.’
During these breeding months, magpies defend their nests and chicks and their surrounding territories.
A number of viewers disputed that the bird was a magpie, instead identifying it as a magpie lark which is not known to attack humans.
Sarah later revealed her infected eye and said she feared a possible infection as a result of the incident.
The footage shows the influencer cowering in fear after the magpie attacked her in the eye with its beak partially lodged in her eye socket.