Posted on 07/04/2013 12:30:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Perranporth, a small town on Cornwall’s northern coast, has seen its share of angry gulls, but attacks on residents seem to be worse than ever. Seagulls are currently nesting and actively protecting their chicks. Apparently bright colors aggravate the birds, causing them to swoop down and target people’s heads.
“In the past five years the seagulls have become more aggressive,” 67-year-old resident Eric Hardinge told the South West News Service. “The birds need to be culled.”
However, most gulls are protected and require special permitting to target.
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I Love that clip!
Winfield was arrested? LOL
What lunacy! LOL
I was in Cornwall for a week last year. We (my wife and I and her sister and bro-in-law) were in St. Ives one day walking down a street behind another group of people. A man in the group ahead of us was eating an ice cream cone. As he held it out in his right hand, a seagull swooped in and took the cone right out of his hand.
The football field was usually covered by a flock of seagulls that would take off as we started our warmup laps. And of course, the seagulls would need to take a dump as soon as they got airborne, causing chaos.
Wharf rats with wings.
Wouldn’t he be fun to have lunch or a glass of wine with? :-)
Yes it would.
Over a parkinglot covered with french fries, you could probably take them with 1 ounce of 7 1/2.
A little old man, and a little old lady are walking in the park, when a bird lets loose and plops one right on the ol gals head.
Quick! get me a piece of toilet paper! she shouts.
What for!? That bird is a quarter of a mile away by now! shouts the old man.....
And then the fight started.
Sort of reminded me of shooting the roost of doves in KY. They were flying in and I aimed and got shiited in the eyes.
Wonder if anyone gets the AS angle?
Probably a couple, everyone else thinks I’m insane...
Guess they did.
Not Doc Martin. He’s knock them around with his medical satchel.
Tennis ratchets would work quite nicely if the shotguns aren’t available.
I've seen one fly into the beam of an active Navy Fire Control radar at a range of about 40 ft. The gull is fully cooked before it knows there is anything wrong.
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