HOUMA, La. (AP) — A Houma man calls it a practical joke that also raises money to fight breast cancer.
For a minimum donation of $25, Wayne Bunch will plant 25 or more plastic pink flamingos in an unsuspecting neighbor’s yard. The display will include a sign telling the pranked friend that they can have the birds retrieved — or planted in someone else’s yard — for a $25 donation.
“It started with friends and family, but now we’ve started posting it on Facebook and random people see the picture or our number on the sign and call us,” Bunch told The Courier of Houma (http://bit.ly/whgKex).
Bunch said he is undertaking the effort to honor the memory of his mother and raise money for breast-cancer research.
The campaign is going well, Bunch said. The family has been “flocking” people’s yards since Feb. 16 and had raised $870 as of Monday morning. They have ordered 100 additional birds to meet demand, bringing the flocking potential to 200, Bunch said.
Bunch hopes to raise money to send a team, called “Gina’s Bunch,” to a Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure race. Participants walk 60 miles over three days during the race to raise millions of dollars for breast-cancer research.