"People are having to take the law into their own hands," the MP for one seaside town warned
Dan Bloom
21:29, 7 FEB 2017
Seagulls as big as dogs have left pensioners in hospital and encouraged
armed vigilantes to wander the streets, MPs claimed today.
A debate heard seaside towns face “gull wars” as menacing birds start
breeding again this spring.
Berwick-on-Tweed’s Tory MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan said “plagued” locals
were so fed up last summer that one began "their own cull" in the
Scottish border town.
She told MPs in a Westminster Hall debate: "While appreciated in
some quarters, [this] brought the risk that people are having to take the law
into their own hands to deal with these really difficult and aggressive birds.
"Which means there are people wandering the streets of Berwick with
firearms who really shouldn't be doing so.
"So the impact of that frustration is very, very real."
Gulls
nesting in a bald constituent’s chimney "used their claws and beaks to
attack the top of his head, causing quite a large amount of damage and pain”,
he said.
He
added: "As we head into the summer, we could very well see gull wars on
our high streets."
Shadow
environment minister Sue Hayman said some postmen had to be protected by a
falconer whose trained hawk would “scare off” the birds.
Patricia
Gibson, SNP MP for the seaside town of Largs, said locals were “risking
life and limb” to keep ice cream and even a £20 note from “vicious” beaks.
Aberdeen
North’s SNP MP Kirsty Blackman warned: "The Aberdeen seagull is the
size of a large dog, it is absolutely ginormous, and it regularly gets
mentioned.
"People
that come to uni in Aberdeen from Glasgow or from elsewhere in Scotland or
England are shocked at the size of these creatures because, they are not like
normal seagulls, they are ginormous.”
"as big as dogs"? Um.. so is that as big as a Irish wolfhound or as big as a Boston terrier? Or something in between?
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