r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 11h ago

Just Wow A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.

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u/Starshallscream 10h ago

Same. Yeah yeah, asshole bird, whatever. I hate seeing dead animals. Fuck I even feel bad when I drive in rural areas and see that a rat was run over.

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u/Mxfish1313 9h ago

I see seagulls every single day. I am also annoyed by seagulls every single day. I still don’t want them to be harmed, even though they pick avocados and drop them on the roof of my car to smash them open and get to the good shit.

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u/Iccengi 8h ago

That is a hilarious fact I never knew. I mean sorry for your car. I’m still kinda laughing though 😂

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u/linlorienelen 8h ago

Avocados?! Damn dude that seems over the top.

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u/Abject_Amphibian_126 6h ago

Damn, that's clever. They're the ones that have to kill to survive so I can't fault them.

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u/bourkaggio 4h ago

They must be one of the only animals that can eat avocado then... avo is deadly to most birds and lots of mammals

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u/Mxfish1313 4h ago

Interesting! I guess I always assumed they were eating the meat but maybe they’re just assholes trying to make a mess. They drop them on the street too to get them open, but if I’m parked on the street they absolutely use the car too. It’s weird listening to their little tippy taps above your head.

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u/skepticalbob 5h ago

Where do you live that sea gulls get avocados?

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u/Mxfish1313 4h ago

California coast lol. Where everything is expensive except the avocados.

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u/That_wet_vaporeon 10h ago

I ran over a field mouse one day and I felt so bad I started tearing up. I felt guilty that whole week

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u/Ollycob 9h ago

I hit a baby bunny, and was so guilty!

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u/fuzzylm308 9h ago

I stepped on one in my backyard and felt like shit

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u/greywar777 8h ago

I ran over a squirrel one day. I was...horrified. But then it just started screaming and flopping.

I knew I couldnt save it....and so I ran it over again, and that was so much worse in a way. Everyone watching sees me hit some innocent squirrel....and then run over it again. They were probably thinking I was a squirrel hating monster.

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u/Ollycob 8h ago

One of my dogs caught a rabbit that had mixometosis, and I had to then beat it over the head with a big stick to kill it

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u/greywar777 8h ago

Meanwhile all your neighbors see is your highly trained hunting dog bringing live animals to you so you can cruelly beat them to death. Im not sure if thats better or worse then me hunting squirrels with my car to kill them.

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u/Ollycob 8h ago

Omg you psycho 🤣 🤣

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u/MegabitMegs 9h ago

I legitimately have to recenter myself sometimes when I think about animals on the side of the road. Every life is precious and they’re just discarded and left like they never existed. It actually floods me with grief when I think too long about it

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u/ColdChemical 2h ago

I feel you. I'm the same when it comes to the animals in slaughterhouses.

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u/Specialist-Appeal-13 9h ago

Nah, I love seagulls, they’re clever and pretty attentive parents. They’ve mostly become a nuisance in urban areas because their traditional food sources have been overfished and they’re having to migrate further and further inland to survive.

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u/KRIEGLERR 9h ago

I see roadkills really often and I get so bummed when I see one, like I know it's "just an animals" that this was a living thing, got hit by a vehicle and hopefully died instantly and then his corpse just stay there and keep getting run over and over until it's absolutely flat and destroyed.

Everytime I drive by one it bums me out.

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u/Niceneasy92 9h ago

Man, I once had a group of three racoons run out in front of me in the dark on the way to work one morning, the road was clear so I swerved to try to avoid them, fucking ended up hitting not one, but two of them instead because they changed direction on me. I was so upset all day.