It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke doesn’t it? But it isn’t. Here is the story:
A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from 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.
I checked out the story to see what else I could find. Here is a page on Snopes.com that claims the story is true, and gives some additional details.
That’s so funny! I’ve never heard of anything like it. I wonder how long they’ll let it go on … maybe it will become a sort of Aberdeen mascot.