Ripped “ASBO” seagulls are terrorising towns swiping snacks, shoplifting and even scalping residents.
But Aberdeen claims to be home to the UK’s most brutal birds described as “another lever of psychotic” and “out for blood.” It comes after the Daily Star reported how a jacked up gargantuan “top level boss” gull has been wreaking havoc in Liverpool city centre where there appears to be an uprising in “XL Gullies” nabbing people’s pasties.
It sparked a thread on Reddit where one user asked: “Which town in the UK has the roughest seagulls?”
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They added: “I don’t live there any more but I’m going to throw Aberystwyth’s hat in the ring, the seagulls in mid Wales are basically pure evil.”
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One user wrote: “Aberdeen. It’s not even a close competition There’s a few will regularly help themselves to stuff in shops. Routine attacks on people are normal. Oh and they are f*****g massive and hyper aggressive. Plenty of towns have bad gull problems but Aberdeen is a whole other level of psychotic b****d birds.”
One agreed adding: “Two of the vicious buggers knicked a baguette out of my car boot when I was loading my shopping and then others mobbed me when I tried to shut the boot. I’ve lived in a number of coastal areas in the UK but the Aberdeen gulls are something else.”
Another chimed in: “I moved from the Highlands to Aberdeen and I thought Highland seagulls were the worst… Until my first encounter with an Aberdonian seagull. They are absolutely ruthless and will go for blood (sadly, not an exaggeration).”
Some coastal areas plagued by the pests have even forced councils to publish survival guides. At the University of Sussex in Brighton, freshers have been handed flyers warning that seagulls will “rob” them.
One Reddit user acknowledged the issue in Brighton after being attacked themselves by “gangs of viscious seagulls.”
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But another touted St Ives as one of the worst places adding: “Cornish gulls are like pterodactyls. I’ve lived there all my life and a St Ives gull got me swooping over my shoulder and took my ice cream cone.”
One agreed adding: “Yep. Had one headbutt me and f****d off with half my pasty. I live in Newquay and they aren’t nearly as bad as the St Ives ones.”
And of course it wasn’t long before someone mentioned Wales.
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One piped up: “Rhyl. They all need ASBOs.”
While one replied: “I had my scalp torn open by a Rhyl gull.”
“Llandudno. Seagulls there are absolute psychopaths and will nail your ice creams on the pier,” added another victim.
One wrote: “I saw a guy drop a seagull with an uppercut after it stole his chips in Barmouth, Wales, when I was like 15 years old. I know that doesnt speak much for the roughness of the seagulls there, but its a fun story I like to reminisce about.”
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But one said: “The underlying question here is which town is most frequented by the inconsiderate tossers who feed them, not appreciating the hell this causes to the locals and especially young children.”
While one concluded: “I think we can all agree that seagulls are c***s.”
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