An £80. Fine For Feeding The Gulls

[Baldric]

http://www.itv.com/news/2017-05-01/holidaymakers-to-be-fined-80-for-feeding-seagulls/

East Devon District Council said people who feed the aggressive animals could be hit with an £80 fine as part of a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO).

I'd like to see it introduced all around the coast, bloody things are a nuisance everywhere.

[Jackdaw33]

£80 fine? Pathetic! Public hanging more appropriate.

[Baldric]

I could see that one working JD ;o)

[New Judge]

Quite agree, Balders.

The birds are an absolute menace and people feeding them on their day trips to coastal resorts like yours simply make the problem considerably worse for residents who are there 365 days. I've seen children (and indeed adults) injured by these aggressive things as they were sitting eating chips or an ice cream on the seafront. It's not nice.

[sunny-dave]

Strip them naked, attach ice cream cornets to their 'parts' and stand them at a Herring Gull feeding spot ...

[Baldric]

Some people would pay good money for that SD!

(or so I've heard)

[joggerjayne]

Ridiculous. The poor Gulls are just trying to get by. I'm having tea and cake in Sugardough in The Lanes. I might keep a bit of my cake for the Gulls.

[mikey4444]

I agree 100% ! There are signs all over Penzance, telling people not to feed the gulls....ditto in St Ives. But people still do it !

[Old_Geezer]

That was a Mary Poppins' song wasn't it ?

Feed the gulls,
80 quid a pop,
80 quid, 80 quid,
80 quid a pop.

[david small]

Compassion for our fellow creatures is verboten.....
Though common sense would dictate that certain areas. One should refrain.

[mikey4444]

OG....lol !

There is a huge difference between feeding little tweety birds, like sparrows and those great monster gulls.

A few years ago, in St Ives, I saw a large gull swoop down and steal a pasty from a terrified child, who was sitting on the beach....poor kids was traumatised.

[weecalf]

Give them money to get there own would that be a way round it .Might even get a tax beak on the money .

[Old_Geezer]

It's because they are protected and now think themselves about us in the pecking order. Anyway I don't think there can be a problem, they say it's fine.

[wolf63]

Mikey, they could swoop down and steal your Willy.

[TWR]

If the population is getting attacked by these birds, cull them, it's no excuse to say the public is at fault.

[chiaroscuro]

Of course it's the public's fault - the gulls associate people with food - you cant expect them to differentiate between which food is being offered and which isn't!

[Khandro]

I love the sound of seagulls.

[chiaroscuro]

Oops, can't

[mikey4444]

chiaroscuro....well said....common sense !

[bhg481]

Perhaps we should cull the public then; it would certainly make it easier to find somewhere to park the car.

[TWR]

There's too many of them, they need culling.