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A new study suggests making eye contact with seagulls can help deter them from trying to steal your food.

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Are these the same researchers that say making eye contact with drivers keeps them from running you over?

Won't work. They work in teams. You start staring one down, he hypnotized you while his siblings clean you out. You wake up naked on a bench, and even your purse is gone. THE GALL !

I'll punch a bird.

So can having a AR-15.

iamandrew0819 Tell Riley she needs to make eye contact, Lol!!!

*from my expert birder son in law...there’s no such thing as a Seagull only Gulls. That said this will always be The Flock of Seagulls👨🏻‍🎤

Gull is the correct term. No such thing a a seagull. Just learned that myself and actual story has it right.

Or maybe stop throwing them food thinking it’s cute/funny

Look them in the eye and mouth the word, 'MINE.'

What if I like seagulls though? 👀

😂

but what if.... what if the eye contact is interpreted by the bird as lust

Handy information...

Say no more..

What do I do when theres 50 of them?

ellycleveland97

This of course is provided you're not stuck in the deserts of Ethiopia where (a) there ain't no seagulls and (b) there ain't no food and (c) if I was one of them Ethiopians, wasting money on shit like studying seagulls would kinda piss me off.

As I said on another site ' smack them in the head!' 😉😉

This is also how mrsrachaelsmith gets me to stop stealing her food.

Given the state of our climate, this could actually be important information.

And get your f** eye injured from the Gull CommonMan

And whatever you do, don’t get into a religious discussion with seagull.

America has no borders. All people are Americans. That was the fucking point when we created it before nazis made DC and sent us to 2 world wars to get us out of their way

Democracy is Rome. America is freedom

If that doesn’t work, try these successful Six Sigma techniques.

Yeah...no. Try that with a Santa Monica or Venice seagull. They’ll steal your food while looking right at you, and won’t even run.

The only reason you care about stonewall is it’s a landmark and that’s English philosophy which resembles German philosophy aka skinheads not aryans aka the enemy isn’t Asian

Never glance at an eagle as well.

tom_vanders

Define mafia fascists

Does that work with pelicans?

Written by Stephen Seagull

I read the twit without seeing the user and for a moment I thought it was the onion

How do you make eye contact with 3 dozen swarming you?

Hard to make eye contact when it attacks from behind, knocks your glasses off and makes off with your ice cream

Yeah right.

Good to know

This holds true for other aggressive birds. During nesting season, Redwing Blackbirds are SUPER territorial and will attack you if you come within 30ft of their nests. I found staring them down before they attack prevents them from doing so.

You first. I remember Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds'.

Me when a seagull tries to eat my lunch

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