FF – Attack
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Ted Strutz.
Copyright Ted Strutz
Jeff twisted and turned, but still they came. They were getting closer now, braver. He didn’t know how much longer he could hold out.
Sensing movement, he ducked towards a wall. Too late. A rush of steely wings slammed into his face. Onwards he ran. Safety, so close. Only 20 metres away he could see his wife, beckoning.
Too slow.
Something crashed into him, scratching his hand. He looked down sadly. Two crinkle-cut crisps and half a picked gherkin where once had been an entire Happy Meal.
He raised his face to the skies and screamed.
“BLOODY SEAGULLS!”
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draliman on life 
I’ve never liked them either. Living by a beach I know all about them
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I lost an entire ice cream cone to one once.
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And the queues this week to get a replacement are ridiculous.
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Yeah, takeaways are like gold dust at the moment!
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Hehehehehe! Seagulls are definitely bold! I once saw two birds uncovering and attacking a bag of crisps that a couple had thought they hid by folding the blanket over the bag. When they came back from their swim they were very surprised. 😀
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I had the ice cream stolen out of the cone once, but I was lucky. Some people end up in A&E getting stitches!
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Should have gone to KFC. You could have got your own wings!
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Ha! That might make them madder though, seeing you eat “kin”…
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seagulls can be nasty but they have to eat too. 🙂
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Yes, but not poor Jeff’s Happy Meal, surely 🙂
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Don’t mess with the gulls
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For sure. It’s harder to stop them messing with you, though.
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Hahaha! I loved i! So so good! ❤
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Hee, I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Oh seagulls! They are clever and vicious! He should have put his Happy Meal in a tin box with a lock 🙂
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Now, there’s an idea 🙂
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Fast food meets Alfred Hitchcock. 🙂
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“The Birds 2 – Happy Meal Massacre” 🙂
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Maybe I should have said Al fresco meets Al fredo 🙂
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I’ve heard the British gulls are very bold. Good story!
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They are. A quick trip to the hospital for stitches is not uncommon. I’m glad you liked it!
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I see a few other specks of unidentified food still on that wrapper. Jeff better finish the rest of it off before the buzzards fly in….
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Eat, Jeff, eat!
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I live by the sea. I feel his pain.
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Although I’ve been attacked myself, it was on a trip to Newquay. I live maybe 8 miles from the coast now and I saw a seagull in the back garden the other day. They’ve found me!
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Rats with wings!!! Bloody seagulls indeed!
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They’re protected by law too! They can act with impunity.
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Someone needs to tell Professor Jones senior that. He flapped his umbrella and not only killed dozens of gulls, but a German airman too. Wonder if you’d get fined if you tried that today 😀
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Gulls are protected so yes. Naughty Prof Jones Sr 🙂
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I daren’t even eat a sandwich on my balcony. My local Wetherspoons actually has a notice saying you eat food in the courtyard at your own risk! Hate the things!
Here’s mine!
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Nasty things. Huge, too. And protected by law so you can’t even take potshots at them…
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My father used to have a sailboat, he called them “Shithawks”
And this reminded me of one summer on the Jersey shore, my sister’s family and mine. A seagull swooped down and ripped the sandwich right out of my nephew’s hand! Bloody seagulls!
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Gangsta-Gull 🙂
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Haha!!
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I lost my ice cream in Newquay 😦 Presumably if humans die out the seagulls will all starve.
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Wrong, Ali. If humans die out there’ll be more fish in the sea. 🙂
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They have been wondering, until lately, just where the hell we are!
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Yipes! I thought Hitchcock’s characterization of gulls was exaggeration. Maniacal and voracious beasties that have their minds on mayhem! A not-so-happy meal.
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Ha, not-so-happy meal indeed 🙂 Gulls are vicious things and they do lie in wait just like in the film!
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😦
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I came out of a beach chip-shop, to two gulls hovering in a 30 MPH wind, directly in front of my treat. 😳
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Ever since I watch the Alfred Hitchcock film ‘The Birds” – I am nervously aware of seagulls, such aggressive creatures. Once on a beach footpath in Dorset we were strafe bombed by nesting Terns. ‘Duck’ I shouted. ‘Don’t be daft they’re seagulls,’ she said and had her hair pulled by a manic bird.
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An unfortunate word-related mix-up!
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I know I shouldn’t but I can’t help laughing at the gulls’ antics whenever I go to the seaside. I love birds and these to me are naughty little rascals, although I accept they are a meance to some.
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The size of them is pretty intimidating for a start!
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Big buggers 😁
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Dear Ali,
No aliens here. Those birds do swoop when they sense food. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Yes, it’s a real problem down here for people, and for the hospitals who have to keep stitching up the wounds.
Ali
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Ha ha! I loved the drama you created in this story. Having lived near the beach for quite a few years this story (and fear) is all too familiar.
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Yes, ever since I was attacked and lost my ice cream I’ve been extremely wary of them.
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you drew this together well, and left me with a smile. Thank you
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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Love this story – the high drama at the start made me think of hostile cyber-men or drones – then flip – its those blessed sea gulls. Fab twist, cleverly done.
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I visualised it as someone trying to save their life rather than their lunch 🙂
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This had me laughing almost immediately. I had a suspicion about where you were going, and it put me in mind of a gull that dive-bombed me from behind and snatch the tomato slice right out of my sandwich! I’m just glad he didn’t leave a deposit on my head 🙂
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Gotta take those little wins! The one which stole my ice cream was very precise, didn’t touch me at all.
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Teehee! You had me with that one! Seagulls are a menace, but they’re so beautiful too.
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And also quite huge!
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That’s why it’s called take away…
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Ha, yes! It’s a takeaway chain!
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Seagulls can be vicious bastards, never come between them and chips.
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Or indeed any food.
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Okay that one literally made me LOL.
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I’m glad you liked it!
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MOL..yikes…but I like seagulls too…MOL😺Pawkisses for a Happy Monday🐾😽💞
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They’re bigger than you are, Binky 🙂
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A big bird told me that nothing beats the taste of stolen food.
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It’s the thrill of the swoop and grab that really gets your appetite up.
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