[News] How to stop Seagulls nicking your chips

[Barrow Boy]

A university has done a study and apparently the best way to stop a seagull from nicking your food is to stare at it! Good luck trying that on a bugger the size of a chicken swooping in on your piece of fish/chips/pies etc. at about fifty mph. Try giving that a 'Paddington hard stare' and see how you get on!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49261385

 

[bluenitsuj]

Seagull nicked my ice cream the other week on Eastbourne sea front. I was staring at one in front and another one attacked me from behind. Little bugger.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Don't feed them and they will learn to hunt for their own food. Humans are to blame, not the birds.

 

[Easy 10]

Seagull nicked my ice cream the other week on Eastbourne sea front. I was staring at one in front and another one attacked me from behind. Little bugger.

 

[dingodan]

I think you'll find a strongly worded letter should do the trick.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Get another creature to deal with them

 

[The Wizard]

Saw a poor Asian lady, who I’m assuming was a tourist, walking obliviously along Brighton seafront down by the donut with a cone of chips, unbeknowingly to her a mob of seagulls were preparing to dive bomb her, one flew down into her face and she threw the chips and her phone into the air and ran off screaming, seagulls had their feast and flew off.

Funny though.

 

[albion534]

Saw a poor Asian lady, who I’m assuming was a tourist, walking obliviously along Brighton seafront down by the donut with a cone of chips, unbeknowingly to her a mob of seagulls were preparing to dive bomb her, one flew down into her face and she threw the chips and her phone into the air and ran off screaming, seagulls had their feast and flew off.

Funny though.

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[driddles]

Last summer we were staying at the Travelodge on the Worthing seafront. Dad bought a coffee mug to give to my brother and placed it on the table next to the window. Seagull reached in through the window, grabbed the mug and dragged it out of the room. It ended up on the roof below, suspect it's still there.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Last summer we were staying at the Travelodge on the Worthing seafront. Dad bought a coffee mug to give to my brother and placed it on the table next to the window. Seagull reached in through the window, grabbed the mug and dragged it out of the room. It ended up on the roof below, suspect it's still there.

Puts a whole new meaning to the term ‘mugging’.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Don't eat chips outside, especially on the seafront or pier, doesn't take a genius to work that one out.

 

[sjamesb3466]

Have they nothing better to do than study this shit?

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

A restaurant with outside seating in St Ives provide a water pistol on each table.

 

[Peteinblack]

I was down in Brighton a month ago, and noticed that the Gulls are bigger, noisier and braver (or more aggressive) than they were years ago - and there are many more of them; on every roof, chimney and lamp-post, and not just on the seafront, squawking from dawn to midnight.

And they are moving inland; places like Bath, and Cheltenham, are infested with them every summer.

I'd happily see a cull - they're the chavs of the avian world. Generally, I love wildlife, but I absolutely hate these Gulls; screeching ******s .

 

[Peteinblack]

Have they nothing better to do than study this shit?

Obviously, they haven't discovered NSC

 

[TheJasperCo]

Only a matter of time before we're nicknamed the Dolphins again.

 

[Taybha]

Only a matter of time before we're nicknamed the Dolphins again.

Perhaps, then wait for the Bloody Dolphins stole my laptop and signed me up to greenpeace thread.

 

[TheJasperCo]

Perhaps, then wait for the Bloody Dolphins stole my laptop and signed me up to greenpeace thread.

Well I for one would welcome our superior cetacean overlords.

 

[Norman Potting]

Saw a poor Asian lady, who I’m assuming was a tourist, walking obliviously along Brighton seafront down by the donut with a cone of chips, unbeknowingly to her a mob of seagulls were preparing to dive bomb her, one flew down into her face and she threw the chips and her phone into the air and ran off screaming, seagulls had their feast and flew off.

Funny though.

Similar experience a few Sundays ago with Mrs. & youngest Potting by the pier. Having already witnessed a seagull mugging of a tourist's chips youngest and I were carefully guarding our mini donuts - Mrs. P. felt it necessary to remind us to "watch for seagulls". At that moment one swept in and removed a substantial piece of her cereal bar!

We retreated to the less than salubrious subway by the pier and joined several others sheltering there in a manner somewhat reminiscent of the Underground during the Blitz.

 

[pearl]

A university has done a study and apparently the best way to stop a seagull from nicking your food is to stare at it! Good luck trying that on a bugger the size of a chicken swooping in on your piece of fish/chips/pies etc. at about fifty mph. Try giving that a 'Paddington hard stare' and see how you get on!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49261385

bad idea, they might take a fancy to an eyeball