It’s Official!

The British are completely, utterly, 100%, certifiably insane. As a group, of course, individuals may still retain their sanity. We reported yesterday about the plague of seagulls that threaten to overrun the city of Truro. Current projections show the population to grow from 22,000 to 218,000 in the next seven years. And the council there is working on ways to stop that from happening. Others, however, are not exactly helping.

For example, there's the fire company that spent 2 hours performing an air-sea rescue of a gull.

SIX firemen took TWO hours to rescue a seagull dangling from a tree.

The bird was tangled in a fishing line hanging over a river.

The crew first tried unhooking the bird with a long pole. When that didn’t work they got in a raft to try a river rescue.

Finally one firefighter cut the gull free but it dropped into the water. A crowd of onlookers gasped as the exhausted bird floated away.

It was then plucked to safety at the River Welland in Stamford, Lincs, and taken to a sanctuary.

Um. We're speechless.

Um. We're speechless.