A seagull just flew at me and snatched my sandwich out of my hand

[Deathbydolla]

as above. Just purchased a sandwich from Costa, thought "weather is great, I'll eat outside" and before I knew it, a huge seagull comes out of nowhere, scratches me and steals my sandwich right out of my hand. CF at its finest.

AIBU to think that this is just plain rude?!

One stole my DSs ice cream in similar fashion when he was a toddler. He was most put out

Nah it's good luck innit. Means you've got Poseidon's blessing.

Lol, total CF.

I recall a swan stealing my daughters ice cream when she was little. I said to my husband that swans going to have her ice cream, it was clearly making its way towards her and eyeing it up, he was all "don't be so ridiculous". Said swan waddled up to her, nabbed her icecream and fucked off. 🤣

Nah it's good luck innit

I think that's when they shit on you actually,,,

I remember when I was a kid in the back garden, sitting out in the sunshine with a roast pork sandwich, a bird swiped the pork out of the sandwich and flew off with it leaving the bread behind!

A seagull had a sausage straight off my bbq last week.

Darwinism in action innit, seagull took his chance and now you've to go hungry.

Seagulls are the thugs of the bird world. Rude and aggressive.

Having said, that I once found a very large one with a broken wing and managed to catch it and take it to a vet to be euthanized; poor thing didn't even try to peck me.

Beautiful creatures when you get up close to them.

Absolute pests. The ones in St Ives are extremely brazen, probably due to all the stupid tourists who feed them, season after season

I remember one year in St Ives a massive evil-eyed seagull took my DD's cornish pasty and knocked her flying. Evil things.

My 4 year old got chased along the beach by a seagull for her sandwich last week. I was trying to swat it with a towel but it gave no fucks whatsoever!

This happened to a friend of mine the other weekend in Bridlington. There are notices up about predatory gulls.. but nothing prepares you to have something the size of a chicken with a huge strong-looking beak, swoop down and grab your sandwich!
I had to admire its aerodynamic expertise, as it nabbed the food without pecking the hand. I see not all are as good as this one...

YABVU 😂😂

Seagulls are crafty and rude. I don't know why we even have them where we live...we're landlocked.

You ought to log it with 101. Just in case he does it to someone else, they can keep an eye out for him.

UndergroundSun

"My 4 year old got chased along the beach by a seagull for her sandwich last week."

OMG that would terrify. I've been afraid of birds since I watched the Hitchcock movie as a child.

YABU and so is the seagull. You were eating outside so should have brought enough food for the seagulls instead of flaunting your sandwich. But the seagull was rude for snatching. If that was my seagull
I would've taught it better manners.

Did you just start this thread to brag that you're one of those fancy people who eat sandwiches for lunch?

When I was child, we lived for a while in another country due to parents working. We were doing a long drive ones, stopped for a break and a wee monkey jumped in one window, stole my sister's apple and then jumped out the other window!!!

I had a bird swoop down and steal a croissant that I was in the middle of biting. I just remember the wings flapping in front of my face and the croissant being removed from my mouth! This was in Thailand and it was a regular occurrence according to the hotel waiter.

I remember being sat in the picnic area at Paignton zoo when a man sat down with a burger that he's just bought. A seagull swooped down and swiped the meat leaving him holding the bread. This guy went crazy throwing stuff about and shouting. 😂

Having said, that I once found a very large one with a broken wing and managed to catch it and take it to a vet to be euthanized; poor thing didn't even try to peck me. I once found a puffin covered in oil. Took it to RSPCA - it pecked me most viciously. Just shows good looks aren't necessarily related to good manners.

Agreed Sacha. I was on Porthmeor Beach with my toddler a few years ago, and thought I could get away with discreetly giving him a quarter of a cheese sandwich while he was sitting on my lap, rather than have to haul a hungry two year old back to the house for a snack, when a gull flew down and took the sandwich and a chunk of my forefinger with it - I think have a faint scar. His strength and speed was quite frightening.

People who live there year round tell me that they can see the young gulls getting cleverer and bolder about food-snatching over the course of the season, as they learn by doing or pass on tips to one another.

I can't do the link but this reminds me of the youtube video "Seagulls" it is a bad lipreading Yoda one. Worth a listen.

My brother was stalked by seagulls in Wales on a business trip and it has become his theme tune....

When DNephew was a toddler, a seagull snatched a mini cornish pasty out of his hand too! That was in St Ives as well. In the seagulls defence he was waving it saying 'birdie birdie', blatantly ignoring his mum and aunties shouting 'nooooo!'

Are the seagulls in St Ives an evil, hybrid, Cornish Pasty loving variety?!

Three children in the back seat of a car in a game park, the car has pulled over to the side of the road and all are observing the monkeys in a tree next to the road. A female monkey with a baby on her chest seems to have her eye on the child in the middle of the back seat, who is eating a banana. In a single movement she jumps towards the car, using one hand to grab the top frame of the open window as a if it were a branch, swings into the car and grabs the banana out of child's hand, back-swings out of the car letting go of the door-frame and lets momentum carry her all the way back into the tree. She was back in the tree before any of the humans registered anything had happened.