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Gulls Stealing Ice Cream

Posted by Birdchick on March - 8 - 2009

I don’t know why, but I can’t stop looking at these photos of gulls stealing ice cream.

Categories: Holy Crap

9 Responses so far.

  1. Stacy says:

    It’s like being at Sea World in San Diego; they have signs posted everywhere at the food courts giving fair warning. Wires criss cross the dolphin tanks where folks can hand feed the dolphins, and those lovely giant, brazen, birds will come anyhow and take the fish right ‘outta mid air, your hand or even the bag! Gotta love em. I think Alfred Hitchcock was right to use them as his poster children in the movie! LOL I still love them though.

  2. Jess says:

    What’s really awful is that most of those people are in mid-lick. Must. Not. Laugh.

  3. Anonymous says:

    I bet the locals never eat ice cream on the beach!

    Susy

  4. Anne says:

    I love the 4th one where the man looks mad and the woman is laughing in the background with her hand over her mouth!

  5. rmharvey says:

    For those who are wondering, the last picture at least appears to be taken in Friedrichshafen, Germany, home of the Zeppelin museum. The body of water is Lake Constance, the shoreline of which is divided among Bavarian Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

  6. dguzman says:

    Those are some brazen birds!

  7. fieldguidetohummingbirds says:

    I got all excited there for a moment after my brain subconsciously inserted “Led” in front of “Zeppelin.”

  8. Darlene says:

    Ice creams are small stuff…I’ve seen these guys fly away with the whole bag (extra large Costco-type size) of potato chips, then tear it open quicker than I could.

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