Schoolies Are Getting Ibis AKA Bin Chicken Tattoos AKA Making Solid Life Choices

All hail the bin chicken!! Hoards of schoolies teens are heading to the nearest tattoo parlour to get inked with Australia’s most-hated inhabitant: the ibis.

School-leavers vacaying on the Gold Coast seem to be v. into being permanently imprinted with the common garbage bird.

“We’ve done about 10 [ibises] during schoolies I reckon, ” tattooist Luke Braniff from Surfers Paradise’s Crossfire Tattoos told Yahoo7.

Here’s a tattoo of the bin chicken feasting on its fave food, filthy trash… probz coated in a healthy mix of bin juice. Yummo!

Via Crossfire Tattoos

Part of the reason so many youngsters are getting these ibis tatts is that Crossfire Tattoos & Piercing are offering a $100 lucky dip tattoo promo — which doesn’t sound incredibly dumb, at all — and one of the options is the dreaded bin chicken.

Braniff says:

“They love it, they think its great,”

“The schoolies have some fun before they become serious adults and the tattoos are normally something funny they’ll remember the week by.”

Only, they last FOREVER. That’s some solid life choices right there.

Via Crossfire Tattoos

Schoolie Jarod Christie has two ibis tattoos (yes, two!), and told Yahoo7 that he loves his bin chicken inkings.

“I am really satisfied with the ibis tattoos, there are much worse things I could have gotten and now they are always a conversation starter,” he said.

“But you know these are tattoos that adults get too, they’re not just specific to Schoolies.”

Sure thing, Jarrod. We’re gonna give it a hard pass. No thank you.