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[beckyh2112]

I've discovered that seagulls fruit me out.

If you throw bread in the air, it will not come down. And they will hover hopefully over your head. They will follow you. Hovering. Sometimes they hover so closely they'll knock you with a wing. Sometimes they will try to grab the bread out of your hands.

Geese, meanwhile, are less scary now that they're not big enough to knock me over.

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[lunatron.livejournal.com]

Seagulls are rats with wings.

Geese can probably still knock you over, if you anger them enough. I know swans can beat a man to death, and swans aren't much larger than geese.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Mute swans are. BIG, BIG swan. BIG.

According to my parents, it will knock smaller birds aside to get at you and your bread.

[spyridona.livejournal.com]

Funny that. I went to the beach a lot when I was little and I loved the fact the rats-with-wings would follow me and sing and shriek.

I bet I'll get nervous if I go to the beach again, now.

[apple-ophelia.livejournal.com]

I once took my toddler cousin to the beach, and a seagull took our sandwich still in the little sandwich baggy. For a second, I worried about the seagull's safety: what if it choked and died, and I was responsible for taking the innocent life of one of God's Precious Creatures?!

Then my cousin started screaming, and so did all the seagulls trying to steal the stupid sandwich from the first seagull, and we had to pull an Indiana Jones Escape from the fricking flock of shrieking winged bitches descending upon us from all angles.

I don't like seagulls. :c

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

I thought seagulls were pretty until I got to do fecal coliform (spelling?) experiments with beach and pond water. Yech. I'm not much of a beach-person, but that definitely put me off swimming anywhere they might have floated.

[inuyatta.livejournal.com]

Geese can be assholes, so beware. They have the ability to break your bones if they get close enough--they're the kind that bite and twist so you bruise up immediately.

Seagulls are fun to me, but then I throw scraps up really high.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know geese can be assholes. They mobbed me when I was young. They're just a lot less scary now that I am much bigger than they are.

[inuyatta.livejournal.com]

mmm, point. I was 10 when I faced my last one. XD

[derawr.livejournal.com]

Seagulls were entertaining to me. I threw french fries to them on the ferry when I was little. They didn't really get that close to me, but maybe they were trying to use their energy to keep up with the ferry more than swoop down onto me.