Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls...

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.

They're also a "menace" because many people actively feed them. It's the same as ducks following people around expecting bread.
Exc-fucking-actly. I'm horrified by how many people here think that animal cruelty is okay when you don't like the said animal.
Well said!
Yeah, that seagull sure as hell found out.

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.

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.
- 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.
- 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
That just sounds like they're being smart to me. They do it to get food, not to be malicious. Unlike humans.
- Doesn't make them any more convenient to live with than hungry mosquitoes or botfly larvae
That's why I prefer bagels.
- The bird shit might clear the hole?
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.
Hilarious..You gotta admit that's some savage survival skills....hatred yes but maybe some respect.
Fuck seagulls. They are made to piss of humans.

They may be aggressive flying pests but this guy is a fucking psycho.

Nah seagulls deserve the worst

Once saw a seagull casually walk up to a pigeon like it was going to walk past it and just snap it's fucking neck.

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

That cartoon version of the old man kills me every time.

Stop stealing his chips
- NEVER!

If you hurt animals, you suck.

Factory farms and the entire livestock/dairy/meat industry does indeed suck.
Edit: exactly seven of you are pro-factory-farm and I think you probably need Jesus. To come back and slap each of you.

Labour's weak attitude to immigration is to blame here just letting these thieves just fly into the country!

What is the average air speed velocity of a swallow?
- Laden or unladen?
- I’m sure someone’s mother should be able to answer this
Should shoot them with machineguns!

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

I would suppose that depends on the jurisdiction.
- 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
Unless...... you do it in self-defense

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!

Bahaha I fully support his actions. Fucking prick seagull fucked around and found out.

There's a good chance another seagull ate the body before it was even cold.
ahaha animal cruelty funny
- Wasn't cruelty.
  It was quick.
- You don't have the same opinion when it comes to rats
- Fuck seagulls! Delete them
The next person who disagrees with you should do the same thing. Fucking psychos
- I dont think you should call others psycho after fantasizing about their death.
- Oh no not the flying rats

Seagulls: 2,047,7998, Humans: 1

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.
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.
to be fair I haven't seen a seagull spin somebody around by the head and kill them
- You should, it's quite the sight

You mean the sky rats???? Fuck em. Get em Brit bong

What he did was wrong, a bit because of the animal and a lot because of the spectators. It did not suffer, it was quick. It does however feel a bit like cognitive dissonance to strongly disapprove of his actions, while we systematically without any good reason eat animals and have them in small confined areas for optimal meat production per sqm. Vegans and vegetarians however, they can judge him all they want 😉 I am not one of them

It shows anger issues and a proloclivity towards disproportionate retribution. Most people wouldn't kill an animal for a simple chip/fry heist.
- It might not have been the first gull who stole his chips—a man has his limits.
- But they will to make gravy and nobody bats an eye.
- He should not have. But we kill animals all the time simply for eating meat, because we think that tastes a bit better. We don't need to inflict suffering on animals for years, we can abstain from meat. How are we more moral? Just because we outsource the killing? I so not condone his actions, just point out that we are not better.
You don't know it didn't suffer and he didn't kill it so that he could eat it (I'm disagreeing with you on the "cognitive dissonance" thing).
Also im not sure if you are saying that you dont judge him for what he did or just saying youre not vegan, but doing as he did is judge worthy.
- Of course he should not have done this. What I am saying is that eating meat when we clearly don't need to is also unnecessary killing. So he killed an animal for no good reason, and we kinda do the same. We have more ethical foods available for us, but we like the taste of meat, and don't care enough about their suffering. Except for those that abstain from meat.
We are a species of cognitive dissonance. I want to know how many of the people reading this story and feeling revolted or horrified were eating meat at the time.
Also not a vegan per-say, but I have reduced my meat intake and try to buy local to avoid giving money to the nightmare hellscapes like Tyson and Perdue the like. That's about the best I can manage in my current lifestyle.
Everyone needs to reconcile and work out this dilemma. It's amazing how many people are dishonest with themselves and others about their reasons for feeling the way they do about eating meat, killing animals, etc. It's okay to say "I love animals but not enough to quit eating meat" and accept it in yourself. It's not a worse moral failing than a hundred other contradictory ideas we all hold in our heads every day. It's okay to say "I find this story distasteful because killing animals should be done behind closed doors to respect others." That's also a fine opinion to have.
I don't get why people have to do backflips to rationalize shit. We are irrational species.
- Exactly this, I am not trying to say that it is not allowed to have the opinion that this was distasteful. I just find it interesting how hard people judge this person. There are infinitely amounts of cognitive dissonance we all live with every day. It's not really to judge people for eating meat, it's more to point our that from a logical standpoint this person actually did not do something much more unethical. Kinda like the thing with the female politician who shot her dog. Which I personally feel is insane and a terrible thing to do, but at the same time dogs are kinda like pigs, and we kill them all the time just because we prefer pig meat over lentils, beans, rice etc.
- Another thing, I remember when I used to live in a house with a cat and a lot of rodents. Our traps killed a couple a week and our cat killed probably not far from a thousand rodents and birds. We could have protected our house more from animals, and we could have had the cat indoors. Somehow cats killing animals is socially accepted, the same goes for rodents in your house.
Let's think about it cold. Kill seagull -> no witnesses, and the next seagull might do the same. I mean, let's get on his level of apeshit crazy, and let's assume seagulls actually understand stuff like humans, morals, and above all, human morals, and on top of that, they even care about those and want to comply. You didn't give it a lesson, because it died before it could learn from it, or before it could let the other seagulls know it's not cool to steal chips.
Hell, even when I'm trying to get on his level, it's still primitively dumb.
- If a seagull is stealing chips from someone, odds are there are plenty of other seagulls around to witness their compatriot getting merked.
  Seagulls understand that stealing from humans is risky - that's why they generally do it very quickly. The ones who fail suffer consequences for their failure, same as stealing food from any other creature. It's the risk/reward calculation any scavenger has to make.
  Sometimes they calculate incorrectly. They get forcibly removed from the gene pool.
  Of course, it's also illegal in a lot of countries to harm seagulls, so in that sense, he was in the wrong anyways.
- It's not about morals that the seagulls can understand. It is not about teaching something. He acted like a moron and completely disproportionately. However it's not that much unethical than killing for meat, when we don't need to eat meat.
I am judging the extreme level of force after something so minor as a stolen chip.
- Shouldn't ave stolen me chip. Simple as.
- I know what you mean, it's disproportionate as hell. I am just saying that we aren't much better morally than him. Unless we abstain from meat.
I don't eat meat (mostly a taste thing), but I'd definitely gift it to a nearby chap doing a bbq after the smack.
Not to waste something that could become food, right?

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

I reckon. Birds are fuckin psycho.
- seriously. who steals a french fry?

I love these guys. Just look at them

shoplift & demolish a bag of chips
shoplift a sandwich
hover over a sightseer to snatch a bite of ice cream
wait from a regular spot to swipe from a pedestrian.

Modern birds are more closely related to tyrannosaurus rex than tyrannosaurus rex was to stegosaurus. Modern birds are, by any reasonable definition, dinosaurs and sometimes they act like it.
Clever girl.

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I hope he gets The Lighthouse treatment at the end.

If you know, you know.

I don't know, do I want to know?
- Yes, you should watch the movie, it's awesome.
- I think they're talking about the comically bad horror movies about birds
- https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7984734/
Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!
- Alright, have it your way. I like your cooking.

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

Most are the hunted, some are the hunter.

Gawd damn boomers... Hahahhahah

Meanwhile perhaps 100s of millions of hens live in small cages in probable misery because we want cheaper eggs.

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....

Edit: Finally after everyone spent all day being mad at me for asking for information, one of you got me some. Thanks alekwithak!

The moral highground is an addictive drug. People are desperate for it.
Because killing animals, especially over petty shit, and especially especially in front of others while disregarding their reactions is literally psychopath shit. Your insistence that this is some kind of 'Phy Op' just makes you look like one, too. Edit: and to call people out for 'glowing' is not helping your case, either.
- How do we know they intended to kill the bird and not give it a light bonk? Where did you see he disregarded their reactions?
Yeah, because killing a huge fucking seagull in front of kids is a totally normal thing to do.
- So all not normal things are psychotic?

Gets attacked by an organism
Exacts revenge on an entirely different organism that had nothing to do with the first situation
Just stay away from their nests dude
- The dude is just staying alert in case another one comes to the dude, trying to do the same thing as the original one.
  Seems like the dude would do the same to any other kind of organism trying the same thing on the dude (perhaps you can try biting the dude's neck to see if you get the written reaction).
  I'll call that immunisation.
What a sack of shit you are

Just wait until it's the Ibis.

Those fuckers can steal a chip with range.

Shouldn't have*

*refrigerator
- Shit you got me
They were trying to capture the dialect of a pensioner. I'm positive the word choice was intentional.
- Then there's 've

So...piglet thumping but with a seagull?

I have absolutely no problem with the death penalty for crimes like this.

Shouldn't ave pinched me chip, simple as!
- They're talking about punishing the guy
Really?
- For child and animal abuse, I just struggle to see a problem with it.

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

saw this meme for the first time on a hasan stream in 2022. he read it in such a cringe ass british accent.. thank god i dont watch him anymore.

Fucking psycho deserves the same treatment. Gross person

I see the fediverse is composed almost entirely of vegetarians. Feeling bad for a winged rat? Honestly? It's not like this man is just going around killing animals like Baron Trump...

I live in the French equivalent of NYC rat wise and trust me, either my cat or I get rid of the pests quickly.

If you have no empathy for animals just trying to do their thing, that is a good indicator that you'll lack empathy for people as well.
- I understand they're trying to do their thing, and that's what happens. He's not going around torturing birds for his entertainment. And here I'm entirely on the side of humanity, lol, what? I feel bad for the dude, his day was probably ruined.
Why are you randomly murdering animals you do not plan on eating? Your cat has instincts to kill so they get a pass but what is your excuse?
Do you not get that killing a seagull like this is not a good thing?
- What about this was "random?"
- It's really not a big deal, and I don't understand why it should be. He had a moment of anger (very valid) and what I assume was an immediate, unthinking violent reaction (also understandable but it might have scared some people around, which is not as cool), else the bird would've just flown away. I feel bad for the kids watching it, but more so for the dude who just wanted to eat chips in peace. A bird is a bird, and he's not going around exterminating all birds in existence. Use your heart to give homeless people money, to raise abandoned kids and to stop imperialism and genocide.
You're a gross person
- Plants don't count as living things to you, huh
- Go talk to your plants, I bet they're the only ones who tolerate you. 😤
Not vegan, vegetarian, or even uncommonly attached to animals. But you are a disgusting person. Rats are great. Rats with wings are pretty cool too. Killing stuff that inconveniences you is psychotic behaviour. Simple as.
- That's sweet. I hope you have the same level of empathy for human beings.
Would you like it if someone grabbed you by your feet and killed you by swinging you into a wall? What the fuck is wrong with you?
- Ah, of course. People and seagulls are the same and deserve the same treatment and the same considerations. And my cat is my daughter and I'm a pitmommy too. This is why y'all are weird to other people.
- Well, I'm not going up to people and stealing their shit
Feeling bad for a winged rat?
This is no about the seagull, it is about actions of this psycho. Swinging into wall? In front of children? Really?
- I assumed the dude grabbed it as it was flying out with the chip and just slammed it quickly without much thought. He might have a horrible day/week, just wanted to have some chippies and this happened. Meh. 🤷
Don't feed the troll, people.
You're gross bud
- No arguments, so you use ad-hominem attacks.
- Unlike the rats in my city, I shower.
C'est une perte totale de temps de débattre sur lemmy, c'est encore pire que reddit en termes de biais cognitifs et d'echochamber.
- Pas pire que Reddit, non (peut-être?), mais je vois que c'est pas le e-paradis que j'avais été promis, mdr. Merci pour ta compréhension ! 🙏
https://birdfact.com/articles/are-seagulls-protected-in-the-uk
“[All gulls] are protected by law. This means it is illegal to kill, injure, or capture a gull.”
- Legality does not mean morality, come on. If you've lived in the West, you know it perfectly well. Is this what the conversation has come to?