Many of you might remember the book in the 70s titled Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The book was written by Richard Bach in what he called a stream of consciousness from a higher source. Of course this comment caused an uproar in the fundamentally Christian community in which I was raised who lived by this dictum: if it's not from God, it's from Satan. Now why Satan would inspire a writer to capture the higher aspirations of a seagull, I don't know. But it blew me away. I was just a wee lass enthralled by nature and thrilled by the fact that an animal, much less a seagull, was the protagonist of an entire book.
Some 30 years later and once again I'm impressed by a seagull. Although perhaps not in such a noble manner as Jonathan's. This clip came to me from a friend as a joke but I was so taken with it, I wanted to save it as a screen saver. If I could figure how to use it as a backdrop for my phone I'd do it. Calling all techies. Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
So here's the story behind the clip:
A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from a neighborhood shop. The seagull waits until the shopkeeper isn't looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos. Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds. The seagull's shoplifting started early this month when he first swooped into the store in Aberdeen, Scotland, and helped himself to a bag of chips. Since then, he's become a regular. He always takes the same type of chips. Customers have begun paying for the seagull's stolen bags of chips because they think it's so funny.
Bless them Scots.
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