'Ate Seagulls

I do not understand why people are so upset about this. People kill vermin all the time in far more brutal ways.

Decorum.
- The only correct answer. Idgaf about some sky rat, but I'd be a little shocked if someone snatched a seagull out of the sky near me and slammed it into a wall until it died.
  I'd also not give a shit five minutes later and would probably regale my friends with the story of the seagull slammer.
- Right, this is animal cruelty. There are people who find humane ways to deal with “pests” or “vermin”, so the fact that we have extermination practices for some population of animals doesn’t make this okay.
And those people aren't any more right... Seagulls are actually pretty interesting, long-living, and intelligent creatures. They simply can't compete with humans, that's all.
Humans should be above this sort of thing.
- Then the gulls should be intelligent enough to piss off until we drop our food or throw it in trash cans.
- They're a pain in the hole

shouldn't 'av*

There we go.

Justified. I was in Edinburgh with my family and we had a lovely outdoor table.

I went to the bathroom and our dinner came out while I was in the bathroom and a seagull STOLE MY GODDAMN £30 STEAK. Just hopped up on the table next to my brother-in-law and yoinked my medium-rare ribeye.

Fuck those sky-rats.

Your fault for sitting outside in Edinburgh tbf.
- Aye who the fuck leaves a steak unattended in Edinburgh? I'm amazed the seagull got it before a junkie scarfed it
As a seagull, I'd have done the same
As if you wouldn't steal a £30 pound steak if it had zero consequences and no morals attached, besides that I don't think anything deserves to be abused before getting killed and especially not in public with children watching.
- So you're saying he should had been more effective in killing the seagull in front of the kids
- if it had zero consequences
  And yet, here there were consequences.
  It's just a specific breeding programme and he was culling the failures. #evolution \s
- I don't see where it says he abused the bird before killing it.
- Pretty sure it dying instantly in a quick whack is the opposite of being abused
  Like no he shouldn't have done that but you're going a little overboard
I must say, it's brave of you to admit a bird outsmarted you. You must be fun at parties, though.
Haha shame

I'd say the comments section is gross and cynical, but then I remembered this is a British community.

true, he should have acted the american way, shooting it
- Whoah fuck you buddy we also use fizzy pills to killem like normal upstanding psychos

Shouldn't of?

Literacy that matches the opinion

As if the username and account age didn't give away your redditorness enough
That is what the guy would "of" said, yeah.
“Shouldn’t of” is a way of saying “I’m a basic dickhead who doesn’t care for your woke opinions, up to and including grammar”
- Huh, TIL
- It's also regularly confused with a way of saying "I went to a school with 'progressive' (read: stupid) ideas about spelling, where the 'teachers' would say dumb shit like 'how would you spell it at home?'"
  Fortunately I missed all that nonsense and regularly had classes on the correct use of and distinction between they're, their and there; two, too and to; bear and bare; should have vs should of; i.e. vs e.g., etc.
language changes grandpa, get with the times
- Language changes but they should still make sense right? "Shouldn't of" makes no sense.
- KAhfkoa azflyhy kkjsdi osit?
  Language changes, granpa. Get with the times.

This thread makes me wish i was an alien, not part the same species as this lot.

I'd rather be Fr*nch than a seagull too! Wait, nah, other way around
- Gulls before Gauls.
- Hmm...

What an ass clown

It's amazing how many others there are rooting this guy on in this thread. I honestly wonder if Reddit finally is collapsing if we're seeing this sort of douchebaggery seep in.
Did I miss something? Did we get an influx? Usually I'm fending off socialistst extremists---
Oh. It's an election year... Okay.
- It’s an election year
  It's always teatime somewhere, sunshine.
- I know right, some people are so utterly ghoulish, they advocate for cold blooded murder left right and center. Imagine the twisted minds that would ever feel an urge to kill.... Pests?

Do British people go on vacation and just eat the same bullshit as at home

Don't want to accidentally eat any of that foreign muck or speak the lingo.
Stick to nice British food, like curry, burgers, Chinese, or pizza.
Yes
Yep. See Benidorm. Sorry Spain.
Some do yes.

Seagulls are filth. The more domesticated ones will basically attack you at the beach if there's any food.

Hopefully we get seagull slaying more mainstream.

It's gonna end up like pigeons where they used to blot out the sky
- Then we will fight in the shade.
Right? My wife doesn't understand why I hate seagulls but they are a nefarious and loud nuisance in coastal cities.

This man did nothing wrong

Even if we ignore the animal cruelty, he was bri'ish to begin with. There's no absolving that.
- "A truly tolerant society should not tolerate the British"
  -SsethTzeentach

Damn didn't know Jeremy Clarkson hated Brighton so much

and what? the kids are traumatized for life or some shit?

Yep, forevermore they will wake screaming at the thought of some geriatric gammon about to grab them by the legs

I will not... No, I will not, I will not I'm stronger than that. Oh whatever, I'm weak: shouldn't have.

Sorry

If you of ever been to the beach you would understand. There's plenty to hate but the seagulls are the worst have all have them.
- Hehe

So many in these comments deserve to go the way of that chip.

Never realised "don't kill animals in front of children" was a hot take, but here we are.
- Even hotter take
  "Dont kill random animals"
- It's weird because it's not even about the killing. It's a good thing for kids to understand animals die for the meat they eat! The real issue is the violence of it. The absolute overreaction of it. Maybe the guy has severe gull PTSD and he snapped, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, but a person in control of themselves shouldn't be this violent.

Da kids was crying cos dat bird pinched is chip.

Shud of giv im a medal. Proper geezer.

Is this Ephraim Winslow?

Came here for this, the guy's fucked, it's bad omen.

Oh man wait till those children hear about what chicken wings are made of

Bad luck to kill a sea bird, Winslow.

I mean, yeah... We're kind of fucking the whole world up at this point.
Are you old enough to remember driving through bugs on long car trips as a kid? Yeah... Not so common now.
Winning isn't what our parents told us it was, friend. We're kind of killing ourselves, as a species.
- That's the one that worries me. What was essentially the most successful form of life is plummeting. That's going to have major consequences, right along with the obvious effects of temperature, climate, and sea levels. I recently went out to visit a cousin in the woods, and where we once caught dozens of fireflies out of the hundreds or thousands visible.... we saw one. ONE.
- driving through bugs…Not so common now
  Obviously its because the sky rats are taking over the world quietly and this asshole is the only one noticing!

not the seagull apologists crying in the comments

Good thing seagulls don't exist then

Government fined him for destruction of surveillance drone

Lol I live that your concern while 360 no scoping seagulls is, "How is this affecting my personal image🧐pewpew"

And non halal food
Not sure what you're trying to say here. From what I've seen Halal butchery is much more humane than non-Halal practices.