Seagulls are not terrorists. This war is a bad idea | Patrick Barkham
Slowly dying from poison. Maimed with air rifles. Lured with food and deliberately run over. Eggs crushed. Offspring snatched and killed. Given our treatment of seagulls, it would be understandable if they launched a campaign of terror against us. Listen to the news, and you would think they had. Stig the tortoise was last week "flipped over like a crab" by seagulls who devoured him in Cornwall. Roo the Yorkshire terrier was pecked to death in Newquay. Bella the chihuahua puppy died of gull attack injuries in May. And so David Cameron - off to Cornwall for his hols - called for a "big conversation" about matters such as a cull, declaring that residents of seagull-blighted towns best know what to do about them.
Gull attacks normally only happen at this time of year, when birds are protecting chicks from perceived threats
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