It’s the seaside birds that deserve at least part of the blame for getting Nick Burchill blacklisted at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada.

Burchill was _ 21 _ at the hotel on business and planning to _ 22 _ some friends in the area. They had asked him to _ 23 _ some pepperoni (辣香肠) from back east. So he _ 24 _ a suitcase full of pepperoni. As he was _ 25 _ that it would be too warm, he _ 26 _ it out on the table near an open window. He thought his pepperoni was _ 27 _ and well chilled (冷却) and he _ 28 _ .

That’s when things went _ 29 _ “I remember walking down the long _ 30 _ and opening the door to my room to find an entire flock of seagulls,” Burchill said in a recent letter of _ 31 _ to the 4-star hotel. “The seagulls immediately went _ 32 _ . They rushed to the window, 30 or 40 birds all trying to _ 33 _ at the same time, and pepperoni—everywhere. The curtains were falling down, the lamps were falling down, It was a real _ 34 _ .

Older and wiser now, Burchill chalked up the incident to youthful indiscretion (莽撞).

“I have _ 35 _ and I admit responsibility of my _ 36 _ ,” he said in the letter. “I come to you, _ 37 _ , to apologize for the-damage I had _ 38 _ caused and to ask you to _ 39 _ my lifetime ban from the hotel.”

His letter _ 40 _ . Banned from the hotel since 2001.Burchill is now welcome to come back, the Fairmont said.