{"id":3087,"date":"2025-07-28T12:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/pub-owner-gives-customers-water-guns-to-scare-away-seagulls\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:15:22","slug":"pub-owner-gives-customers-water-guns-to-scare-away-seagulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/pub-owner-gives-customers-water-guns-to-scare-away-seagulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Pub owner gives customers water guns to scare away seagulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-28 12:15:20<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A pub owner has given customers water pistols to scare away seagulls.<BR><br \/>\nSteven Walker, the landlord of The Ferry Inn in Salcombe, Devon, South West England, has put water guns on every table in his beer garden &#8211; which have &#8220;Seagull Gun&#8221; written on them in permanent marker.<BR><br \/>\nHe insisted the idea is not to harm the seagulls, but to fend them off if they try and take his customers&#8217; food.<BR><br \/>\nSteve says the initiative has worked because the birds &#8220;stay away&#8221; when they see the water guns.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, the businessman has had to remind people that the water guns are to be used against the seagulls and not each other.<BR><br \/>\nHe is quoted by MailOnline: &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to harm the birds, although they are quite cocky and a bit of a pest.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We just want to scare them away.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We have to remind people that the water guns are for use against the seagulls, not each other.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;But we have definitely noticed that, after a few weeks, the birds have come to recognise the guns and stay away.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nA spokesman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said: &#8216;We acknowledge that gulls can sometimes be a nuisance, but we&#8217;d ask people to consider their own behaviours, too. If you eat outside, consider eating beneath parasols or close to walls where gulls find it more difficult to fly. &#8216;<BR><br \/>\nA spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) said: &#8216;The main concern about this strategy is it could encourage the idea that gulls are animals to be fought against, or that they&#8217;re somehow in the wrong.&#8217;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-28 12:15:20 A pub owner has given customers water pistols to scare away seagulls. Steven Walker, the landlord of The Ferry Inn in Salcombe, Devon, South West England, has put&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}