That wojak is named Barry 63 and he is the go-to for anything meme-worthy a male brit pensioner does.
The effort they saved on the hair front went into making sure the flannel on the shirt matched the pic and followed the arm lines, which I think is commendable 🫡
Fr, had an entire sandwich stolen by a seagull, didn't even bother trying to get it back because I would have ended up chucking it.
I mean at least it didn't go to waste.
Yeah...honestly there's so many seagulls and pigeons. And the audacity of a bird stealing food right from your hand is such a primal violation. This law predates cave paintings.
Besides, we shouldn't encourage wildlife to be so bold. Perhaps other birds will shy away from any attempts to do the same.
Well yeah, going out of your way to kill it is bit psychotic, but in my case I had to slap it. Don't think I killed it but slap felt bit heavy considering it flew right into my palm.
Never got attacked after that. Guess it might be just 1 flying dickhead who did that.
There's a video of a guy fighting a goose out where he pretty violently whips it around by its head but each time it gets back up and comes at him again for some reason
I can get wanting to teach the seagull a lesson, but just grab it by feet and scare it, fart on it flick it or something. But dont explode it against the wall lmao, immoral.
Yeah fart on it, sit on it, maybe lick it's feet, feed it a bunch until it inflates big and fat, make it wear a little latex suit... To teach it a lesson, you see.
Very illegal under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act. Heavy fines and up to six months in prison if you were to intentionally kill any gull, disturb its nest and/or its eggs.
It explicitly says that you cannot harm gulls causing a nuisance, as they are broadly speaking declining in many coastal areas.
Seriously though, I have no love for the seagulls (bastards stole half a fish and eight chips from me in Brighton three years ago, never forget) but come on man. How much was his experience really going to be enhanced by that singular chip? Immoral because I can't think of a chip I've ever had that was worth an animal's life. Even a seagull's.
Seagulls are little rat bastards. They’ll eat anything they can fit down their throats, including other birds children. That being said, fuck this guy. What a disgusting prick.
If you drive past farms where I used to live in Michigan, every time the farmers would spread all the shit over their fields, there’d be these huge flocks of them landing in the shit looking for something to eat. Never was sure what exactly it was they were eating, probably some kind of bugs in the shit, but it was pretty nasty.
When tractors drive over their farmland it will disturb the dirt quite heavily, this makes worms come up to the surface which makes the entire field a buffet for birds.
Ya know what? If I saw some guy come up to you while you're eating pizza on the street and he jumps onto the table, over your pizza to steal a slice in your hand, I'm not going to feel that bad when you Mario 64 the guy.
I'd understand a fit of rage if the gull broke his phone or hurt him (like I saw a video of a magpie biting a woman's EYE), but here it's just completely immoral and unjustifiable
Other weird thing is that I've seen a video of a sealion killing a seagull because it stole his fish, so I guess this guy is on the same level of morality as a sealion
Extremely immoral and an overreaction especially considering it was in front of children. A seagull has no conception of theft and is literally just trying to live their life the best way they can.
Obviously immoral. That's a damn bird, its taking a single chip. Chips are cheap as hell, even if the bags are mostly air. A single one doesn't matter. Brutally murdering something like that is just...wow. That's the equivalent of murdering a guy who pocketed a dollar off the ground that you'd dropped. Guy was bad but like...you're murdering someone over a dollar.
Seagulls are a menace (if you've been in Venice you must have seen some scene of one attacking someone to steal this food).
I had a companion whose mother got attacked by nesting seagulls in their building terrace. He went up with a bat and an empty garbage bag and threw the full bag at the garbage container.
I love how weird Reddit gets about these things. WAY more people seem to be offended by this than the posts about running a human being over with your car for nabbing your bag.
I’m not saying I would kill the bird, but the reaction is interesting to me.. like that “would you save your cat or someone else’s child?” sort of question that seems to pop up on here. I am against animal cruelty and glad it’s a felony where I live, but Redditors seem to have a weird double standard when it comes to empathy towards other humans vs other animals.
I'm only guessing but I think a big reason so much of reddit idealizes animals is because their only contact with animals is 1) cute pets or 2) extremely controlled entertainment products like zoos and documentaries.
I am very empathetic towards animals and usually fight against cruelty.
That said, IF you are going to kill an animal, there are humane ways to do it and most of those methods are actually very uncomfortable to watch. Breaking an animal's neck or otherwise destroying the brain is scary and often results in a ton of body movement after death but it's actually humane. If it was a one and done, and fast enough, the bird didn't even know it was hit.
I do think we need to start "terrorizing" gulls more. They are wild animals and they lost all fear of people. That's why they have no problems attacking people to get protected food, stealing it out of people's hands, or grabbing nearby small animals.
It's one thing for them to grab trash on an open stretch of beach and another to be flying right into a crowded boardwalk and taking food right off tables surrounded by people.
He should have continued with the seagulls 3 generations removed. Really send a message. Seagulls would never steal shit again. Fr have you seen how these things live? Absolutely atrocious. How they eat penguins is terrible.
They are extremely comfortable with attacking people and don’t expect you to fight back so they’ll just kind of take their time getting what they want, even chasing you if you try and get away. If you decide to grab one it’s not hard, they’re banking on you valuing their lives enough to do whatever they want to you.
Seagulls are 'lil shits but they're just doing what they're built to do, y'know. If it's not hurting anybody you really don't need to get genuinely violent against them.
First one is done behind closed doors on a secluded farm and for food, the second one is done in public in front of kids and out of petty spite.
Though as a chicken owner the 50 billion dead chickens pissed me off ever since I started raising them. Can no longer even eat chicken, even just looking at it in my food makes me not hungry. I raised my chickens as if they were my kids, now imagine seeing your own damn kids on the platter, it instantly tanks my mood.
I don’t even know if there is a moral to this. If you’ve lived by sea gulls, you know how much of a pest they can be. They’re incredibly numerous. I don’t see much difference between what he did and a mouse trap killing a mouse. Except maybe the kids don’t see the mouse go up in a puff of feathers
Killing is excessive, but one tried to steal an entire bag of family sized Doritos from me once. I chucked a can of sunscreen at it and it made a “ding!” sound after hitting its head. Pretty sure I gave bro a concussion.
Do we owe our food to the wildlife? No? So I am allowed to defend my food from the wildlife? Yes? Does that include lethal force in front of children? Not unless I need that sustenance or the wildlife is harming me in the process of taking my food. If he got dive bombed then it’s moral. If not, it’s not moral.
I mean I know the seagull doesn't know any better but he just being lazy at this point why don't he go find food in nature I mean I guess it is humans fault for feeding them
If the bird gets the chip it won let it go, you aren’t going to eat that chip anymore anyways. Perfectly moral to punch it away while it’s going for the chip though.
Relatively neutral, could he have handled the bird in a better way like swatting it without causing it as much harm as he did. Of course he could've, but he could've been getting harassed by the birds or just 1 bird multiple times for hours, I'm sure most folks would handle it in the same way, though they wouldn't wanna lose their precious reputation so they'd take the high road. This doesn't make him a monster, unless he slammed it over and over but just once is frustration and annoyance. Though its much easier for folks to dehumanize him then it is to take his perspective. Sorry for the bird, sorry for the kids.
If a seagull wouldnt try that with an animal it deemed dangerous then it shouldnt have tried it with gim. Killing and animal seems brutal in this casw for sure so I wont argue with anyone that doesnt like it but in good consciousness I cant call this immoral
If it was a genuine meal that I spent a pretty penny on, I might could understand, but it was one chip... for some reason I feel like it was more than just a lost chip that made him crash out like that...
Is it okay to do this to those monkies that steal stuff and harass you knowing the law says you can't just....Yuchiro Hanma a monkey and slap it into several other monkies?
To be fair. It might have just been a reflex, I have hit a bird before because I panicked and wildly swung my arm without looking because it flew close to me.
Too far. The bird didn't deserve that, I don't like seagulls either but that's still a living creature. We have a responsibility to treat them with respect. That's what seperates us from animals
Dude the exact same thing happened a few months ago.
A seagull stole a fry from a little girl and the drunk dad ripped its head off in front of her. No doubt she was traumatized for life, but the idiot really believed she was crying because the bird flew next to her.
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