They may be flying rats but this guy is a fucking psycho.
Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls...
Submitted 1 month ago by Godric@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Nah seagulls deserve the worst
RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
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.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That just sounds like they’re being smart to me. They do it to get food, not to be malicious. Unlike humans.
RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Doesn’t make them any more convenient to live with than hungry mosquitoes or botfly larvae
Pnut@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
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.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
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.
RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
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
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
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. Learn to protect your food instead of being a horrible piece of shit.
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
That’s why I prefer bagels.
Quadhammer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The bird shit might clear the hole?
andybytes@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Hilarious…You gotta admit that’s some savage survival skills…hatred yes but maybe some respect.
Alchalide@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Fuck seagulls. They are made to piss of humans.
Pothetato@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bahaha I fully support his actions. Fucking prick seagull fucked around and found out.
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
There’s a good chance another seagull ate the body before it was even cold.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
ahaha animal cruelty funny
Enzy@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Wasn’t cruelty.
It was quick.
MITM0@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You don’t have the same opinion when it comes to rats
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 month ago
The next person who disagrees with you should do the same thing. Fucking psychos
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I dont think you should call others psycho after fantasizing about their death.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
If you hurt animals, you suck.
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Factory farms and the entire livestock/dairy/meat does indeed suck.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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.
Schmuppes@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Those motherfuckers can be huge, too. The building where I work has a kestrel nest. Last week, there was drama when some seagulls showed up and were apparently trying to kidnap and eat the kestrels’ young ones.
dumbass@quokk.au 1 month ago
That cartoon version of the old man kills me every time.
Godric@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Labour’s weak attitude to immigration is to blame here just letting these thieves just fly into the country!
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Should shoot them with machineguns!
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I would suppose that depends on the jurisdiction.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
MITM0@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Unless… you do it in self-defense
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
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!
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
It shows anger issues and a proloclivity towards disproportionate retribution. Most people wouldn’t kill an animal for a simple chip/fry heist.
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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.
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It might not have been the first gull who stole his chips—a man has his limits.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
But they will to make gravy and nobody bats an eye.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
You don’t know it didn’t suffer and he didn’t kill it so that he could eat it.
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.
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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.
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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.
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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.
belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I am judging the extreme level of force after something so minor as a stolen chip.
Godric@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Shouldn’t ave stolen me chip. Simple as.
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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.
Dicska@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
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.
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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.
ulterno@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
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?
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You mean the sky rats??? Fuck em. Get em Brit bong
catty@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Seagulls: 2,047,7998, Humans: 1
Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
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.
blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
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.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
to be fair I haven’t seen a seagull spin somebody around by the head and kill them
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
You should, it’s quite the sight
docmark@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Rats with wings. I got bit by a goose as a kid so while I don’t go looking for a fight, I have been waiting 13 years for one to finally try again so I can grab it by that stupid fucking neck and give it this exact treatment.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
BubbaGumpsBackLumps@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Fucking psycho deserves the same treatment. Gross person
deaf_fish@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
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…
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I hope he gets The Lighthouse treatment at the end.
If you know, you know.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
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.
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Meanwhile perhaps 100s of millions of hens live in small cages in probable misery because we want cheaper eggs.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 month ago
've
simonced@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Most are the hunted, some are the hunter.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I have absolutely no problem with the death penalty for crimes like this.
Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Give this man a medal
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
I love living in a seaside English tourist area, watching tourists get absolutely bullied to bits by the seagulls.
andybytes@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Gawd damn boomers… Hahahhahah
Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Shouldn’t have*
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just wait until it’s the Ibis.
Those fuckers can steal a chip with range.
Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Humans:
“wHy Do ThESe SEaguLl KeEP STEalinG FrOm Us”
Ilandar@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
They’re also a “menace” because many people actively feed them. It’s the same as ducks following people around expecting bread.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
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.
GigaFox38@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Well said!
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Yeah, that seagull sure as hell found out.