Staring at seagulls may deter them from stealing your food, research says

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/07/staring-at-seagulls-may-deter.html

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You can’t stare at all of them.
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Laughing Gulls well, will just laugh and then steal your food.

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Seems plausible.
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Which then gives the crow an opening.

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Does this also work with illegitimate presidents? Asking for a country.

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*sigh* We shall never be free of Rob Ford.

From what I’d heard, staring wouldn’t have helped, either.

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“Do you want some of my crack, mister mayor?”

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Not around here it doesn’t. You can stare all you want, but you do have to blink now and then. Seagulls have balls of brass.

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Technique first perfected by the CIA on goats, amirite?

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Great - how can you get this to work with kids and cats?

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An additional Taser and a squirt bottle, in the same order.

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Staring at seagulls

Potential band name?

Also:

Just look at it.

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Can confim that it works.

But it does not stop their friends from pooping on you in the meantine.

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You just need owls. Lots of owls.

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Should we start a thread?

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Why? Is he dead or something?

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That shouldn’t have made me laugh, as old as that gag is… yet it did.

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Some things die hard.

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Still “a Christmas movie” only in the loosest sense of the term.

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