• BubbaGumpsBackLumps@lemmy.world
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    As an aussie who has had many foods taken by birds including a fucking eagle that stole my burger out of my hands, this is some sociopath shit

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    Why is everyone jumping to the psychopath narrative? Is there background on this guy? Why bring up crying children? This feels like a Phy Op to me and some people replying in this post are glowing a bit…

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    Not only is he cruel, he is actually participating in making more powerful Seagulls, the surviving seagulls will be the ones that can steal chips and survive being thrown at a wall. Beware the terminator seagull soon attacking your chips, the walls will not survive!

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      This would only be true, if that piece of shit had stolen the seagull it’s chip or if the seagulls had smashed more than two million people to death.

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      When’s the last time of these sky rats swung someone into a wall though. I’d say that counts for at least 5 chips.

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    Humans:

    • Takes all the fish for themselves
    • has bussiness dump to birds perfectly edible but to humans not commercially pretty enough fish bits in the trash.
    • builds apartments on the gulls original habitat

    “wHy Do ThESe SEaguLl KeEP STEalinG FrOm Us”

    I also grew up at the coast and yes they are a menace. But as the saying goes fuck around, find out.

    Imagine if we restored and maintained the habitat and did a daily collection of fish waste to dump near that habitat.

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    I love living in a seaside English tourist area, watching tourists get absolutely bullied to bits by the seagulls.

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      Factory farms and the entire livestock/dairy/meat industry does indeed suck.

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    I grew up by the sea and seagulls can fuck right off. Ones where I was learned to shit on you and your food from above so you would put it in the bin, then they’d raid the bin and eat the shit covered food.

    A near-lifetime around these fuckers gives me some sympathy for this guy. Not a lot, but some.

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      Grew up by the sea too. Humans destroyed the vast majority seagulls’ habitat, overfished a ton, so if now they steal from us, it’s only fair. They are wild animals and need food. People should learn to protect their food instead of being a horrible piece of shit.

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      That just sounds like they’re being smart to me. They do it to get food, not to be malicious. Unlike humans.

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        Doesn’t make them any more convenient to live with than hungry mosquitoes or botfly larvae

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      I grew up with seagulls (well, lake gulls) and they weren’t a bother. Then I visited the actual seaside… I wondered why there weren’t more chip stands serving seagull meat.

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        Small flighted bird - Low meat ratio

        Human food scavenger - Dirty malnourished

        Of course, if you give McDonalds any hints, they might throw em in a grider whole and start a new line of nuggets.

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        It’s been considered by many but unfortunately they are full of tiny bones, lack much meat, and don’t taste great owing to their ongoing diet of garbage, fast food, and their own shit

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      Hilarious…You gotta admit that’s some savage survival skills…hatred yes but maybe some respect.

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    as someone who’s had their food stolen by a seagull a few times i once found myself in a fit of petty rage googling “can i kill a seagull” and the answer is no, like legally you cannot, they’re protected birds

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        it does not. Seagulls are protected in: UK, Ireland, all of Europe, all of North America, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Russia, and probably more but i can’t be bothered to go past the first few Google searches to find out

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          all of North America, Mexico

          Hmmm. I mean I guess I get mentioning UK separate from the EU, but idk about Ireland, isn’t it part of the EU?

          To be very clear, I’m not trying to contradict that it’s illegal to kill seagulls in a lot of places.

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            I feel like the default is that you aren’t allowed to kill animals. Not as in most laws outlaw killing any animal, just that there are probably a lot of laws about randomly killing animals that aren’t like tiny bugs and stuff. Like you can’t just kill a deer unless you have a hunting permit. You can’t catch fish without a fishing license. Sure, you’re probably allowed to kill animals on your property that are a nuisance or anywhere in defense, but I wouldn’t just assume I can kill a random animal.

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              I think there’s a clear difference between an animal that’s a known nuisance and any other. If a rat and an emu both wander into my yard, the rat’s life is forfeit, but I’m not gonna fuck with the emu for multiple reasons.

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            they’re covered by migratory bird protection legislations from what i read. and some of the seagull spiecies are pretty endangered. can’t tell you more than that, i just accepted that the sky thieves dickheads cannot be touched

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    That’s crazy behavior honestly. Don’t let that guy have access to kids, they wouldn’t make it long.

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      Those motherfuckers can be huge, too. The building where I work has a kestrel nest on the roof. Last week, there was drama when some seagulls showed up and were apparently trying to kidnap and eat the kestrels’ young ones.

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        I straight up witnessed a city seagull kill and eat an adult pigeon whole. It was pretty quick and wild to see.