LONDON - Britain’s seaside towns are at war with their seagulls, urging visitors not to feed the birds in an effort to stop them snatching titbits like potato chips from tourists’ hands.
The research showed that with a human staring at them, herring gulls took 21 seconds longer to approach a bag of chips then when left apparently unobserved.
Great plan, now all you need is one head for each seagull. Who comes up with this stuff?
Duh. We appear as predators.
It has got to be so very difficult living in an island.
Just feed them alka seltzer
Any solution on how to turn girls away?
Reuters has become the Buffalo Bills of news!!!! Congratulations?
Easiest solution: Put 'seagull and chips' on the menu.
This is fascinating.
And if there's more than one?
😂😂😂😂 STOP IT!!😂😂😂😂
Liquor store owners in US inner cities should adopt the same tactic when confronted by thirsty protesters carrying large screen TV’s from the burning Best Buy next door.
Another creature of nature destined for extinction because they are in the way of pos humans.
Absolutely amazing it shows the intelligence of the seagull tho
found a use for assault rifles...
BS
well to deter seagulls to dislike fish and chips / buy a potion of chip and spray with liquid soap they don't come back for more / and it does not harm the birds in the long run !//
Been told different
bbc tested «stating», it did not work. In Telemark, nothing worked but separating habitats during Seagull season of hatching - legal and justified self-defence is the emergency solution if seagulls attack kids or as a in Telemark, heads of people were targeted by seagull beaks
Well, as they often attack from behind, you'd better pin a drawing of staring eyes on the back of your head.
I wonder if this tactic would work for women who find themselves in the proximity of realDonaldTrump and are concerned that he is about to grab them by their🐈 without their consent?
This sounds like a perfect solution for people who like to stare at seagulls all day.
BANGERS AND MASH FOR GULLS?
Every animal tries to know if the thing next to it is trying to eat it! So the gaze doesn’t seem so special.
This is very funny and idiotic journalism
Yeah, because while your busy staring down one seagull the others totally won’t come and ravage your beach setup.
Seagulls are the ones supporting the local food industry! If they not desired up in Britain, send them over here in. Mongolia.
This technique also works with my wife
I would laugh my butt off while on Cape May Delaware ferry, and see gulls snatch passengers food away from them
Falcons take care of the problem
So we have not progressed in thousands of years. How reassuring.
.22 rim fire rifles would help. Oh wait, nevermind
Is this from the people who brought us global warming was due to termite farts?
That's good. I need to know how to keep a seagull from snatching my pizza when I'm at the boardwalk.
Does that stop them shi tt ing on you.
Ok give that a try in New Jersey and let me know how you made out!
Is this a promo for a 80's throwback band?
right, so don't look at it, wait for it to approach then dish out a swift gull strike 👊🏼. make sure its friends see
I wonder how much in StudentLoans were accumulated in advance of this study.
Hey JymGanahlTV - LOL!
littlered_ace 'I am looking at you. Don't even think about it.' ;)
And it gives a lot of people something else to stare at other than their phones.
didn't the CIA do something similar - staring at goats - they made a movie out of it. 😎😎
Does not work with Steven Seagal though...
Let it eat bloody asshole... Seagull ain't thief... It's doing what should be done when hunger strikes... EAT what's available...
Seagulls hate to be shamed and judged
I'll need some wings then....... 😁😁😁
Read the article.... I submit the gulls knew it was a trap and spread the word.
Quit eyeballing my bait box
Do come and try this in Maine! They may outlast you or drop from above. UMaine needs a graduate study for this.
And seagulls found out can't get food when humans stare at them. What a discovering.
How much they are going to eat in anyway? Stupid research.
Shooting them does a pretty good job too
Angry Birds
Did TheOnion write this article?
Who the **** has the time or empty brain to stare at seagulls all day?
is it a paying gig? 🙄
Staring at goats guy would like a moment of your time
He stole my muffin
Stop them stealing like they were meant to buy it with bitcoin or beg for it ?
What are you look'en at, 🤬? Take a picture, it'll last longer!
See, there will be job opportunities post Brexit.
ЮРОК
Then they're SHY animals
Not the ones in Aberdeen. How do you stare when they swoop down on your kebab from above?
New movie coming out for 2020 'The men who stare at sea gulls'
😆... certainly it should work with criminals right
Ok.
Of course, they are easily hypnotized😂😂😂
And it's fun to see the fuckers blink.
So does volleying them ⚽️
They take your eyes instead
Its a strategy by those feathered fuckers. Billy the Seagull - 'Look into my eyes human' BTS - 'Ok boys... attack'
Does this tactic work with right-winged politicians? Maybe staring at them will get them to do their job? Perhaps stop misappropriating funds? (I'm looking at YOU, marcorubio & tedcruz) Asking for 300 million folks who are sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Research shows what now? Staring you say
Also works on cats
British gulls must be polite, try that with a Florida gull and see what happens.
Even seagulls have shame unlike Trump who has none
Oh good. Cause when I go to the beach my main focus is staring at seagulls while I eat my sandwich.
Research also shows there's around 30 million illegal aliens residing in the United States
men who stare at seagulls
People staring down Seagulls after reading this article:
same
Oh for god’s sake let them steal some food.
Who did this research and more importantly, why
Works on me
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