Maybe they think it's a snake or eel or they're just feeling randy.Here Are Some Gulls Playing With a Dildo
Conservation photographer Jennifer Warner visited the Children’s Pool in La Jolla, California on Tuesday in order to photograph the pupping harbor seals that have taken up residence on the beach. She soon noticed some juvenile gulls chasing each another around and causing a ruckus;one of them had what she thought at first was a piece of plastic pollution in its beak. She snapped a few photos and zoomed in.
The gulls were fighting over a dildo.
“Before realizing what the object was, I was annoyed and mad, because plastic pollution is a real serious problem, and as a conservation photographer I’m documenting human impacts on wildlife,” Warner told Gizmodo. “But when I realized what it was, while the other emotions still existed, you can’t help but find humor in it.”
Seals have used this stretch of beach as a breeding refuge since at least 1996, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.The city closed the beach for five months in 2014, butresidents sued to have it reopened. A judge ruled that the city could once again close the beach for pupping season in 2018. But the seals aren’t the only animals that have found refuge here; other wildlife, like the gulls, take advantage of the peaceful habitat as well.
Gulls aren’t just beach-loafing french-fry stealers. They provide important ecosystem services, cleaning up the afterbirth from the seals on the beach, for example. But they’re also cunning, playful birds. Warner watched the juveniles tossing the dildo and chasing one another around until one of the birds flew away with it, for uses only the gull knows.
Birders in one gull-watching Facebook group identified the birds in question as juvenile western gulls, a dark-backed gull common on western coasts. Though nicknamed seagulls, America’s many gull species inhabit niches around the country, many far from the seashore. Some birders(yours truly included) find enjoyment in observing our many gull species and learning to tell them apart.
As a conservation photographer, Warner strives to document how human and wildlife coexist, including how humans pollute habitats and come into conflict with wild animals. She was happy that these photo are going viral as a way to draw people’s attention to plastic pollution on a beach. Anyway, if this is your dildo, it has a new owner now.
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I fail to understand why the harassment can't be stopped. Just contact all the pizza shops within a certain distance and have his address put on a "never deliver" list.'Pizza Stalker' Plagues Belgian Man
In a bizarre story out of Belgium, a beleaguered man claims that some nefarious individual has been ordering countless pizzas to be delivered to his home for the last nine years! According to a local media report, the strangeness began back in 2011 when a delivery driver appeared at Jean Van Landeghem's door with "a whole load of pizzas" that he never requested. Although he initially thought it was a simple mistake, the man soon learned that the incident was the opening act in what has become a living nightmare.
Since that fateful day, Van Landeghem says, a seemingly endless stream of pizzas, as well as other delivery items like kebabs and pitas, have been ordered to his home by the dedicated miscreant who clearly has a grudge against the man. The visits from restaurant workers unaware that they have been caught up in an elaborate ruse occur at all hours of the day and night, he lamented, and one incident in particular saw ten different delivery drivers show up at the same time.
While the individual responsible for the sinister campaign is likely filled with ill-gotten glee, Van Landeghem is understandably tormented by their actions. "I cannot sleep anymore. I start shaking every time I hear a scooter on the street," he revealed, "I dread that someone will come to drop off hot pizzas yet another time." Almost as annoyed by the entire affair are local restaurants who have been forced to eat the cost of the faux orders time after time.
Strangely enough, Van Landeghem revealed that one of his friends who lives in a nearby town has also been on the receiving end of the proverbial pizza stalker for the last nine years, which would seem to indicate that someone they know is behind the series of deliveries. Unfortunately, attempts to get help from local authorities have proven futile, leaving the frustrated homeowner to declare "I cannot take it anymore. When I find out whoever has been bothering me for the past nine years, it will not be their best day."
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Strange Rumble Rocks Indian Village
Residents of a village in India were literally shaken when a man digging a well inadvertently unleashed an enormous rumble which rocked the community for an hour. The weird incident reportedly took place in the community of Mahakalapada last week as Shyam Sundar Bhol was attempting to create a borewell in his backyard. The project took a wild turn when the pole being used to locate water reached 1,000 feet underground.
It was at that point that the area began shaking in a violent fashion while boiling hot water and mud shot out of the ground. Incredibly, observers say that the eerie undulating and uncomfortable 'rainfall' lasted for an hour until the rumbling finally subsided and Bhol was left with a small water-filled hole in his backyard.
While the event was likely a natural occurrence, residents say that similar water-gathering projects in the village over the years did not produce such a strange outcome. As such, some people suspected that there was a supernatural cause for the commotion and promptly left the village out of fear of encountering the angry spirits believed to be behind the rumbling.
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Something just came to me about this story. In Tron: Legacy there was a race that manifested and they were all walking in a straight line to the city, but they weren't carrying luggage.Mysterious Group Carrying Suitcases Stumps Police in England
By Tim Binnall
In a very strange story out of England, authorities were left scratching their heads after they were unable to locate a sizable group of people reportedly seen carrying suitcases and walking towards a reservoir. According to a local media report, the weird incident occurred last Thursday morning when Sussex Police received several calls from residents who had spotted around 50 individuals seemingly en route to the Ardingly Reservoir. What caught the attention of the witnesses was that every member of the gathering inexplicably had a suitcase with them.
The weird case became all the more puzzling when officers arrived on the scene and could find no trace of the luggage-toting group. After announcing the confounding call to investigate on Twitter, Inspector Darren Taylor was pressed for additional details, but conceded that there mystifying story had no resolution. "It's all a bit random," he wrote, "received calls from members of the public that a group of around 50 adults were walking down a middle of a road pulling suitcases heading towards Ardingly. We thought possible rave happening so carried out an area search, but they had vanished."
The officer ultimately mused that the incident was "most bizarre," which led his amused social media followers to offer their own explanations for what might have happened. As one might expect, some suggested that the group had been picked up by aliens whisking them away from Earth and others likened the case to a scene in the classic film Cocoon. And, of course, one person groused that the lack of a single picture or video of the proverbial 'suitcase gang' suggested that the reports to police had some kind of hoax.
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