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

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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?!

I remember when my cousin was eating a sandwich when he was talking along the seafront whilst on holiday in Cornwall. A seagull flew past, nicked his sarnie, bit his finger and shat on his shoe. He wasn't happy!

Here we go another drip feeder.

What was the sandwich? What type of bread, was there any salad? Was there sauce?

I know the seagul was being a dick but the level of dickiness is directly related to how nice this sandwich was.

Also did you scream MY SANDWICH, MYYYYY SAAAANWICH!!!!!

The bastard!

I don't like Muscovy ducks because I was mugged by one for my sandwhich at the age of 4.

A baboon once nicked my ice cream when I was on holiday in South Africa. Just strolled up, bared his teeth & took it. I was so shocked I nearly went after the bugger but realised that would be a very stupid idea.

We were mobbed in Looe Harbour eating fish & chips once too.

I must just look an easy target to wildlife.

I agree re: the st Ives seagulls! They are so crafty as well. I felt a sharp breeze and next thing I knew, my daughter was crying because her cheese straw had disappeared.

But I am absolutely aghast at the number of twats people who willingly feed them. I want to tell them to stop but am not brave enough.

I was in St Ives a few weeks ago with 4 year old ds. We were by the harbour eating ice cream and I saw a seagull eyeing him up so I got ready to shoo it away, but I shooed a bit harder than I planned to and just as it went to grab the ice cream I basically punched the seagull. A couple nearby gasped and DS shouted "MUMMY DON'T HIT THE BIRD", mortified

Toddler Ds was chased down the beach at surfers paradise by a flock of seagulls for his doughnut, he had been too busy eyeing up the topless ladies to notice them approach! He flung it in the air and ran like the wind

A St Ives seagull once screeched in over my head from behind and flew off with my ice cream in its cone. All I felt was a rushing wind over the back of my head.

It was infuriating (it was Moomaid ice cream, the good stuff), but I have to say it was an impressive manoeuvre.

Ha, you think a seagull is bad? We have these buggers stealing your food! The council has taken to putting up notices to warn you. My friend had her lunch snatched straight out her hand in the park. They are beautiful but, bloody hell, they are scary as hell when they swoop down.

My little DD once had a cheese sandwich snatched cruelly from her chubby toddler fist while standing outside the lion enclosure at Newquay Zoo.

Seagull was the size of an Airedale terrier, and much less cuddly looking. DD still gives the (admittedly much smaller and weedier) Brummie seagulls a wide berth.

The ones in Aberdeen are mental

There was a TV programme about this a year or two ago. They observed the gulls very carefully, and noticed that it was always the same ones snatching food from people - either the others weren't interested or couldn't work out how to do it. They had a definite technique whereby they carefully observed their targets and came at them from an angle where they wouldn't be seen until it was too late.

There's a fortune to be made in seaside towns for whoever can invent a device that allows you to eat pasties and ice creams without too much inconvenience but offers protection from gulls.

considering how much shit we've dumped in their natural habitat, I think a few sandwiches/burgers/pasties is a pretty fair payback.

Had a whole piece of fish swiped from right in front of me. I was so cross. I was really looking forward to my fish and chips. Hate seagulls with a passion now!

This happened my dd at crèche a couple of years ago. She was in such shock she was still telling me about it days later. My daughter is coeliac so the sandwich was gluten free not sure what the seagull made of it

Ah get over yourselves. Seagulls are clearly the next master race, what with their widespread murdering of weaker races, invasion of foreign spaces, collaborative behaviour and ruthless appropriation of all possible food sources. All you as can do is bow and submit, and hope that when they rule the world they allow some humans to co-exist for the express purpose of manufacturing pasties, chips, ice cream and sandwiches. No other food stuffs will be allowed. Hey, it doesn't sound that bad.

I love seagulls and decorated my new bathroom is complete homage to them.

And another thing - why are seagulls a protected species, FFS? It's people who need protection from them, not the other way round.

LunchBoxPolice

You're my hero!

What a cheeky little fucker

I saw a seagull catch and eat a pigeon in George Square in Glasgow once. Never looked at them in the same light again.

I also had one crap full in my face by the sea too (lots of fishy poo) luckily i had glasses on so they caught most of it. Bastards.

The seagulls round our way are quite polite - aside from wailing in the street when someone's coking something pungent. They sit on the pavement but shuffle to the side to let people get past. They make an awful mess of the parked cars though.

Holy shit Bonfires!

I have a strange relationship with birds. As a toddler I was chased by a flock of evil ducks and bitten on the finger. Then when I was about 10, a moorhen at Chester zoo bit me on the shin. Purely for shits and giggles. Bastard.

Now, as an adult, I’m finding that birds are developing subtler ways of stalking me. Once, a big old pigeon walked in my back door and wandered slowly around the house with me trailing it. Eventually it stood by the front door so I opened and it waddled out, hopped down the front step and went off up the street.

Just recently a starlings have taken to hurling themselves down our chimney and landing in the log burner. Five times this year so far. I can’t work out if it’s the same suicidal starling every time or if it’s lots of different ones scouting out the inside of my house, looking for weaknesses.

🦅 🐦

If that was my seagull I would have taught it better manners

I swear the ones up here in the North East of Scotland have been exposed to gamma radiation as they all seem to be hulk sized.

There are some big beasts that always seem to hang out in Lidl's car park near us and they aren't fazed by cars driving straight towards them. They only waddle away at the last minute as if they're trying to prove how hard they are and then they audaciously sit on your car roof waiting for your return to see if there's an opportunity to nab something out of your trolley.

My DH once saw one dive into a black bin bag in the days before wheelie bins and scavenge an empty yogurt pot which it then proceeded to eat in its entirety. God knows what their guts must be like with all the crap they eat.