A cheeky seagull named Sid has been helping himself to crisps and other food items from a Hastings Old Town shop.
Now Alex White, who runs Arkwhites Best Before food shop in pedestrianised George Street, has banned Sid from the premises.
Read more at https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/shopkeeper-bans-thieving-sussex-seagull-sid-4668303
Now Alex White, who runs Arkwhites Best Before food shop in pedestrianised George Street, has banned Sid from the premises.
Read more at https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/shopkeeper-bans-thieving-sussex-seagull-sid-4668303
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00:00So we're up White's and Hastings Old Town and we do have food outside and obviously
00:23being a seaside town we get lots of seagulls down here. We've got one called Sid now that's
00:28turning up every day. He's a bit of a clever bugger. He waits for everyone just to disappear
00:34and then he waddles over, jumps inside of the cages, tries to take out, well, anything
00:40really. He doesn't know if it's food or not. Hand wipes, obviously crisps. Very, very crafty,
00:52very, very intelligent. And that's why I say I'm never going to win. Yeah, no, I'm not
00:56getting fed up in the slightest. I'm born and bred Old Town. Seagulls are part of the
01:00Old Town. But obviously when he comes over and he's ripping them through the cages, I've
01:06got to stop him. It's a business I'm running. And people say, why don't you feed the seagulls?
01:11Which is obviously the worst thing to do because they just keep coming back and bring all these
01:15mates back. At the end of the day, let's face it, he's going to win. So there's not really
01:25a lot I can do about it. So it is what it is.