WATCH: Huge Red-Tailed Hawk Terrorizes Pennsylvania Restaurant

According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, red-tailed hawks are considered “aggressive birds” that might act like dicks toward humans if they feel threatened or if they believe that we’re getting too close to their nests. They also apparently get angry when they see someone trying to do her job and clean the outdoor seating area at a Pennsylvania burger restaurant.

Anna Olvera was working at the Great American Pub in Phoenixville last Tuesday morning, when a true-to-form aggressive hawk decided to fly talons-first onto her head. It attacked her hair, which was tied in a bun (and she had to think, at least for a second, this is not part of my job description). She told FOX29 that she did the only possible thing she could do in that situation: She screamed “Oh my God! Oh my God!” and ran into the kitchen, with the hawk still gripping her head.

As Olvera flapped her hands and tried to keep the bird away from her head, she called her boss, John Sakos, who is also the restaurant’s general manager and executive chef. “I walked in, saw a giant hawk sitting on top of the ice machine and was like ‘What the heck?’” Sakos said. While Sakos works several roles at the pub, “raptor whisperer” isn’t one of them, so he called the Phoenixville Police Department.

While one of the officers waved a large net around the kitchen (which the bird did not fall for), the pub’s handyman Justin Chapman decided to literally take the situation into his own hands. He grabbed a tablecloth, caught the bird inside it and then carried it back outside to release it. “I’m from the country, so rattlesnakes, copperheads, mice, rabbits, squirrels—it doesn’t matter,” he said, shrugging off his hawk-removal efforts.

“An employee was on her break behind the restaurant and a red-tailed hawk landed on her head,” the Phoenixville PD wrote in its weekly blotter. “The terrified employee ran back into the restaurant with the hawk still clinging to her. The hawk was flying around the kitchen when the officers arrived. A brave bystander was able to catch the bird with a tablecloth and released it outside—unharmed.”

Sakos told the news station that this was the first time in his 30-year restaurant career that he’d ever had a hawk in the kitchen, which is reassuring. He also said that the restaurant was cleaned and sanitized after that incident, which is twice as reassuring.

We just hope that Olvera got the rest of the day off.