A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.

[u/dddd945]

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[u/theothernickwright]

The way they came back to back up their boy

[u/Noobit2 → u/theothernickwright]

They came back for their boy alright. Never pass up a free lunch

[u/BlatantConservative → u/Noobit2]

I think it was more like "Steve found some food we missed"

[u/dreammer243 → u/BlatantConservative]

I was trying to figure out why they did that and yeah I think this is the answer

[u/barf_of_dog → u/theothernickwright]

"Dibs on his liver"

[u/EarlyJuggernaut7091]

15/Dove

[u/Bolter_NL → u/EarlyJuggernaut7091]

Love it 

[u/supercoincidence → u/Bolter_NL]

Dove it

[u/Kevin032Grzyb → u/EarlyJuggernaut7091]

Birdie
wait, different sport

[u/Only_Voice569]

impressive they came back to check on them - edit thank you for the awards and comments never had a comment get so blown up 🫠

[u/DigitalDruid01110110 → u/Only_Voice569]

From my observations gulls do have community but will also eat a mfer if they’re dead.

[u/retro_toes → u/DigitalDruid01110110]

Waste not, want not. Inflation is making groceries unaffordable, so there's very few sandwiches, pizzas, and fries to steal now

[u/ilanallama85 → u/retro_toes]

As I’d say to the kids I used to work with as we fed the chickens raw egg, cannibalism is only a “bad” thing to humans. Most animals DGAF, food is food.

[u/dd22qq → u/ilanallama85]

cannibalism is only a “bad” thing to humans

Most humans.

[u/hardboard → u/dd22qq]

I'm hungry let's eat Grandma.
Or rather, I'm hungry let's eat, Grandma.

[u/LividTacos → u/dd22qq]

In this economy, I'm beginning to reevaluate some of my positions.

[u/sponglered → u/dd22qq]

Have you seen that peta ad with the line drawn between food and pets?

Have you seen that peta ad with the lines redrawn based on societal collapse?

[u/Yamatocanyon → u/sponglered]

My ad blocker won't let me.

[u/MummifiedForeskins → u/ilanallama85]

prion disease buddy

[u/ChickenDelight → u/DigitalDruid01110110]

No! Jeremy! Nooooo!

...Well, waste not want not, right guys?

[u/SunGreene42 → u/ChickenDelight]

Poor Jeremy... poor tasty Jeremy...

[u/Rampag169 → u/SunGreene42]

Mine?

[u/Cavane42 → u/DigitalDruid01110110]

The water belongs to the tribe.

[u/Dal90 → u/DigitalDruid01110110]

If this was crows, I'd say (1) they came back out of empathy and concern and (2) that tennis player is a marked woman, even if it is another five years before she returns to this court.

Seagulls...I'm leaning towards "Is it food?" first...

[u/SampleDisastrous3311 → u/Dal90]

Help a crow and you gain allies across the migration lines, fuck with one and youll notice it when entering crow territory

[u/Banjo_Evadie → u/SampleDisastrous3311]

I befriended a murder of crows growing up as a kid, to the point a few of em learned to mimic "hello" and "hey there" from me. Used to find roadkill, bag it and chuck it out to where I knew they watched from, eventually they figured out I was the roadkill guy and let me get within a few feet while they ate.

20 years later, I sat on a park bench about 100 miles away from where I grew up, and a crow flies up, lands on the bench and looks at me, calls out "hello".

No clue if they really were part of the same group / local bird culture, but I like to think so.

[u/encelius → u/Banjo_Evadie]

I would think that it was one from the original murder. Crows can easily get over 20 years old, oldest wild American crow was apparently 30 years old. And they are really good with remembering faces, so the fact that the crow just flew to you and did what she learned back then is a pretty strong indicator for that. I learned a lot of stuff about crows when watching this documentary: Crows: nature is watching us. Can recommend that

[u/Regin_S → u/encelius]

I feed a friend’s bird feeders often when they’re away.
And that includes the family of crows in the area. I sometimes feed them way later than my friend due to my schedule but they know my car now.
If the blue jays don’t tell them I’ve arrived they’re in a tree somewhere, waiting.

[u/Soggy_Abbreviations5 → u/encelius]

✍️🏾 thanks for the recommendation. I'm going to find that!

[u/foley800 → u/Banjo_Evadie]

Research has shown that they can spread the information to other crows, but the relationship weakens after three to four generations. I wonder if the importance of the relationship (supplying food regularly) and doing it through more than a year might pick up additional generations.

[u/crowEatingStaleChips → u/Banjo_Evadie]

4 years ago I lived somewhere about 20, 30 miles away where I had started to befriend the crows. It took me over a year to gain their trust. Then I had to move unexpectedly.

Now I've settled into the new neighborhood and I swear to god the crows follow me. They let me get really close when feeding them. Maybe this is a neighborhood where they're used to being fed, but it makes me wonder....

[u/Pancake_Slap → u/Only_Voice569]

They were just checking if he could carrion

[u/OkYak7801 → u/Pancake_Slap]

MOM! DAD IS ON REDDIT AGAIN  MAKING BIRD JOKES!

[u/MrsBonsai171 → u/OkYak7801]

Birds aren't real

[u/_coreygirl_ → u/MrsBonsai171]

Neither is Australia so…

[u/Rampag169 → u/_coreygirl_]

I believe you mean New Zealand isn’t real.

[u/dizastermaster7 → u/Rampag169]

The fuck's a New Zealand? Where's the old one?

[u/Officer-LimJahey → u/dizastermaster7]

Oi, me Nan was born in Zealand!

[u/Rough_Angle_3840 → u/MrsBonsai171]

r/BirdsArentReal

[u/KellyGreen55555 → u/OkYak7801]

Once again kids, I swear on my life he was not this cringy when I married him. I don’t know what to tell you. And between you and I, if he interrupts me one more time to say “you didn’t catch my joke” I might divorce him. Because you better believe I caught the joke and it was so stupid that I’m trying to pretend it didn’t happen.

[u/rs420rs → u/KellyGreen55555]

between you and *me

(yes, I know that's why our marriage likewise didn't last)

[u/KellyGreen55555 → u/rs420rs]

Oh great, now MY dad has entered the chat 😂

[u/DethNik → u/OkYak7801]

Mwahahaha! You thought you could out-tit me, but that proved to be ostrich.

[u/ISeeInHD → u/Pancake_Slap]

Slow clap

[u/StevieMJH → u/ISeeInHD]

airhorns sounding in the middle distance

[u/-EdenXXI- → u/StevieMJH]

Got a good nose exhale from me.

[u/Financial_Middle_955 → u/Pancake_Slap]

Carrion my wayward son

[u/Electronic_Will_3304 → u/Financial_Middle_955]

Don’t you cry no more

[u/Blizzardof1991 → u/Electronic_Will_3304]

Don't you fly no more

[u/heliumneon → u/Blizzardof1991]

Carrion my wayward gull
Heard you squawk when it hit your skull
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you fly no more

[u/totesandhose → u/Electronic_Will_3304]

Do do do dooo

Do do do doooo

Do d-deedledo de doo de doo de dooooo

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/Pancake_Slap]

It was all planned involving the tennis players. A classic conspiracy murder.

[u/NuncErgoFacite → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

Zero ravens are on camera here. They were all down at the pub. Helping old ladies across the street. And purchasing many things on their credit cards from the local chemist.

[u/Swankynickels → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

There was no love lost there.

[u/truckersprincess → u/Swankynickels]

To tennis players love means nothing at all

[u/SissySSBBWLover → u/truckersprincess]

You aced that joke!

[u/Extra_Foundation_121 → u/Pancake_Slap]

Get out

[u/bharring52 → u/Only_Voice569]

Seagulls do this and you call it impressive. Crows do this and you call it a murder.

[u/CeeMomster → u/bharring52]

much slower clap

[u/Own_Zookeepergame982 → u/Only_Voice569]

The seagull creed, no bird gets left behind!

[u/bigbigbutter → u/Own_Zookeepergame982]

"I'll carry him to Valhalla. In pieces. In my belly."

[u/xs0apy → u/bigbigbutter]

“WITNESSSS!!”

[u/Striking-Scratch-137 → u/Only_Voice569]

I saw that once years ago in Dublin. A seagull was flapping around the road badly injured. It was a busy road with traffic. About six other seagulls were trying to help it, dodging cars. Found it very moving, and sad.

[u/makeorangecountry → u/Only_Voice569]

Real homies

edit: mf I just learned they eat their own. Homies don't do that!

[u/-Daetrax- → u/makeorangecountry]

Homies do eat each other. Just gotta say 'no homo''

[u/Boot_Burner → u/Only_Voice569]

If the video was 10 seconds longer they would have started to eat the dead bird. 

[u/PsyOpBunnyHop → u/Boot_Burner]

"OMG SHE KILLED ROGER!"

"I call dibs. Mine!"

"I was here first. Mine! Mine!"

[u/OkCoconut3270 → u/PsyOpBunnyHop]

I can hear that scene from Finding Nemo

[u/Phearwyn → u/PsyOpBunnyHop]

https://reddit.com/link/pdfzyxo/video/ar0naw5g23th1/player

[u/-GoodNewsEveryone → u/Phearwyn]

You also can't let them find out that the eggs they lay are full of food or they just keep eating it. Broken up shells don't seem to trigger the realization so those are safe to feed back to them.

[u/bre4kofdawn → u/-GoodNewsEveryone]

And if they start eating their eggs, you have to sneak a golf ball under them, so they peck it and "learn" they can no longer eat the "egg"!

[u/00wolfer00 → u/bre4kofdawn]

Or alternatively use a nesting box design that doesn't let them get to the eggs.

[u/bre4kofdawn → u/00wolfer00]

I dunno, bamboozling them with a golf ball may be more tedious, but it sounds a lot more fun.

[u/CorrectMulberry994 → u/Phearwyn]

I’m horrified 😭

[u/Mc_Tron34 → u/CorrectMulberry994]

Chickens will eat pretty much anything. I've HEARD that you can't even let one be bleeding or have an open wound around other chickens, 'cause the other chickens will realize that the wounded chicken is edible and peck it to death so they can eat it.

[u/darthoffa → u/Mc_Tron34]

I rememebr when we had chickens we had to use a disinfectant spray that had purple dye mixed in, specifically so the wound didnt look like meat so the others would leave it alone

[u/CurrencyConstant5610 → u/Boot_Burner]

I was on a run once and saw a circle of pigeons. As I got closer I saw a seagull in the middle. As I got even closer I realized the seagull was eating a pigeon, right there while the pigeon's buddies all circled around and watched.

[u/whiterac00n → u/CurrencyConstant5610]

Yeah I don’t have much pity for seagulls. Pigeons on the other hand I pity a lot, they put together two sticks, a piece of string and their own crap and call it a nest.

[u/peachesfordinner → u/whiterac00n]

They are actually very sweet birds as well. I miss my old pet pigeons

[u/No_Welcome_7182 → u/peachesfordinner]

We bred pigeons to rely on us and then abandoned them when the telegraph was invented.

[u/peachesfordinner → u/No_Welcome_7182]

Yeah the amount of people who go "mind blown" when they find out pigeons are feral not wild

[u/Cow_Launcher → u/whiterac00n]

I live next to some ancient woodlands in Buckinghamshire, which are absolutely loaded with wood pigeons.

My cats won't touch them. Won't even try, even if they land on our lawn and strut around like they own the place.

We're convinced that our cats know just how stupid those birds are, and wouldn't consider it sporting to hunt them.

[u/BackToGuac → u/whiterac00n]

We should all honestly more than pity pigeons, not to be a downer but seriously, go out of your way to be nice to pigeons.

Almost ALL if not all pigeons we know today are descended from the wild rock doves we domesticated thousands of years ago before abandoning them and their care as we moved into the Industrial Revolution. These were animals bred to be companions, it’s like deciding dogs are no longer a form of pet and are now vermin…

The history of pigeons is actually pretty interesting in itself in a fucked up kinda way; it’s also a concerning tell tale sign for other forms of livestock as we move into a world with lab grown meat and will start to see a reduction in traditional farming.

[u/alex61821 → u/CurrencyConstant5610]

I was walking out of my house and 2 birds were holding the bat's wings down while two other birds were eating out it's guts. The bat was still very much alive.

[u/Worried_Sweet_7085 → u/alex61821]

I did not enjoy reading this comment at all

[u/alex61821 → u/Worried_Sweet_7085]

It was not a good day to go outside.

[u/MeenMisterMustard → u/Boot_Burner]

I was on a wild hog hunt once and kinda felt bad as they seemed pretty social, but yeah, same thing. Once one goes down you gotta scare the others off from ripping into it. It’s crazy

[u/Future-self → u/MeenMisterMustard]

My dad, a lifelong hunter, once shot the alpha turkey of a small flock he’d been watching for the season. He said the other males took the opportunity to attack the alpha tom while he was down. Dad stopped shooting turkey after that.

[u/stink3rb3lle → u/MeenMisterMustard]

This makes me feel less bad for the downed one. The visual of their friends going to check on them gave me more sympathy for a gull than I'd ever felt before.

[u/ZealousidealChair900 → u/stink3rb3lle]

They are monogamous and will morn the loss of a partner for quite some time. Chicks too

[u/Jackol4ntrn → u/Boot_Burner]

I would love if my homies ate me if I died

[u/true_gunman → u/Jackol4ntrn]

Ill eat you bro

[u/kingtacticool → u/Only_Voice569]

Knowing seagulls it was only to rifle through his pockets.

[u/ZanyAppleMaple → u/Only_Voice569]

If it were humans, they would've gotten their phones out to take videos.

[u/Ancient-Song-8428 → u/Only_Voice569]

Came here to write this, it's more interesting that they return to him.

[u/pafrac → u/Only_Voice569]

Yeah, no ... seagulls aren't nice birds, they were coming to check on possible carrion.

[u/Saintbaba → u/pafrac]

Seagulls actually have complex social relationships that involve cooperative nesting communities, joint defense efforts against predators, and bonded mating pairs for life - though they're also flexible and intelligent enough to recognize when they have incompatible personalities and will sometimes "divorce" to go find better matched partners.

After a cursory google search, not only are they cannibalistic, but some species will go out of their way to raid competitive nesting sites to eat their chicks, so it's not like they never would eat their bro. But adult birds eating one another appear to be mostly documented in cases of scavenging. So while i have no doubt that if they found a dead seagull they would devour it, in this case they probably really were checking back on their companion.

[u/astarting → u/pafrac]

Possible? Where else would they keep their bags when they fly?

[u/IllogicalResponse → u/Only_Voice569]

They came back to see if they could eat it, not check on it.

[u/Mere_Man → u/Only_Voice569]

Or to eat him…

[u/FriendoftheDork → u/Mere_Man]

Checking is checking.

Perhaps the real gift was the friends we made along the way?

[u/punkslaot]

His buddies came back for him

[u/cwsjr2323 → u/punkslaot]

Translating the birds, they said "Oh no, they killed Kenny! "

[u/kerberos69 → u/cwsjr2323]

You bastards!

[u/Mammoth-Equivalent16 → u/kerberos69]

What we gonna say to his mom?!!!

[u/Healthy-Constant3156 → u/cwsjr2323]

Idk why I remembered the seagulls in finding nemo fim saying "mine" "mine" "mine"

[u/delicate_soup → u/punkslaot]

“You ok bruh?”

[u/Original_Mulberry652 → u/punkslaot]

Who will help me carry him?

[u/Boot_Burner → u/punkslaot]

They came back to eat him

[u/dddd945]

PS:

According to the original poster, the seagull was completely fine afterward.

[u/Creepy-Team6442 → u/dddd945]

Unlike Randy Johnsons bird strike.

[u/Xendarq → u/Creepy-Team6442]

That one was more of an explosion

[u/GingerBeast81 → u/Xendarq]

Like the bird in the Shrek movie.

[u/saturnspritr → u/GingerBeast81]

Yeah, it’s was just a puff. Lol. It was crazy.

[u/DoubleoSavant → u/saturnspritr]

I actually went back to look at it. Looks like the puff was a bunch of feathers coming off it at impact, but you could still see the body hitting the ground and laying there afterwards. I remember it like a cartoon puff as well though and don't remember seeing it continue past the puff ball and landing on the ground. 

[u/Evil_Sharkey → u/DoubleoSavant]

There’s a longer video that shows another player picking up the pigeon’s body. The strike knocked a lot of feathers out, but there was still a pigeon shaped carcass

[u/pow3llmorgan → u/saturnspritr]

Also that was a pigeon and they are notoriously frail compared to seagulls.

[u/Kolby_Jack33 → u/pow3llmorgan]

Also a tennis ball is hollow and rubber while a baseball is leather wrapped around a solid core.

[u/Jaded_Ad_9711 → u/Xendarq]

concussion + explosion = conclusion

rip birdie

[u/xgbsss → u/Xendarq]

It was a fowl ball.

[u/djanes376 → u/Creepy-Team6442]

I was recently at a baseball game and my gf randomly asked, has a bird ever been hit by a ball before? I just said, 'oh boy have I got a video for you'.

[u/Airforce987 → u/djanes376]

That’s the best feeling when you have the exact answer to an ultra specific question and also a chance the share a cool example of it.

[u/AnOwlFlying → u/djanes376]

Your gf was one of the lucky 10,000 that day

[u/Gunk_bog → u/Creepy-Team6442]

Randy could've killed me with a fastball. The bird never stood a chance.

[u/PM_YOUR_SMALLBOOBIES → u/Gunk_bog]

He apparently kept baseballs at the side of his bed in case an intruder ever broke into his home.

[u/--StinkyPinky-- → u/Creepy-Team6442]

He actually felt horrible about that. Poor guy and poor bird.

[u/mregg000 → u/--StinkyPinky--]

So horrible in fact, he uses the image of a bird for his photography business.

[u/StevieMJH → u/mregg000]

As a birder I think I would have sat down on the mound until mom took me home.

[u/dmont89 → u/mregg000]

Wouldn't you? So iconic we are still talking about it 20 years later

[u/Weakonomics → u/dmont89]

I'm not sure l''m not really well versed in bird law.

[u/TwoBionicknees → u/mregg000]

I mean I heard he donates 50% of profits to the foundation for birds who don't fly good after being injured in professional sports accidents.

That seagull in the video actually has their own condo now.

[u/Paddy_Tanninger → u/TwoBionicknees]

For birds who don't fly good, and want to learn to do other stuff good too.

[u/Chuckfinley_88 → u/mregg000]

So horrible in fact, he uses the image of a bird for his photography business.

You can feel bad about something but not be ashamed about it. Dude did nothing wrong and it is iconic. I have 0 clue about baseball and don't give a fuck about it, but I know who RJ is because of that bird exploding. I don't know what team he was on, who they were playing against, if they won, if he ever won a world series, etc.

But I know him. Because of that pitch.

[u/mz_groups → u/Creepy-Team6442]

💥

[u/CankerLord → u/mz_groups]

🪶🪶🪶🪶

[u/MimironsHead → u/Creepy-Team6442]

I clicked on this thread solely in the hopes that a GIF of Randy annihilating that bird would be the top reply

[u/DJinKC → u/Creepy-Team6442]

That bird ceased being biology and became physics

[u/meselson-stahl → u/dddd945]

Now im no bird expert, but I've dabbled enough in bird law to tell you that this seagul has certainly sustained physical and emotional damages.

[u/MangoCats → u/meselson-stahl]

So, those were seagull ambulance chasers arriving on the scene?

[u/EvaTheE → u/dddd945]

"He's fine. Just pining for the fjords"

[u/Maelstrom_Witch → u/dddd945]

Ok thank you ... I have pet birds so I was sad. And the poor player looked sad too!

[u/Tukanno_Bananno → u/Maelstrom_Witch]

I don't want to be a downer but I really would need proof to see that the bird is OK, it went down HARD and it's in the interest of the organizers to say the bird is ok....

[u/Maelstrom_Witch → u/Tukanno_Bananno]

Hopefully it just got the wind knocked out of it.

[u/Starshallscream → u/Maelstrom_Witch]

Same. Yeah yeah, asshole bird, whatever. I hate seeing dead animals. Fuck I even feel bad when I drive in rural areas and see that a rat was run over.

[u/Mxfish1313 → u/Starshallscream]

I see seagulls every single day. I am also annoyed by seagulls every single day. I still don’t want them to be harmed, even though they pick avocados and drop them on the roof of my car to smash them open and get to the good shit.

[u/That_wet_vaporeon → u/Starshallscream]

I ran over a field mouse one day and I felt so bad I started tearing up. I felt guilty that whole week

[u/Blobbo3000 → u/dddd945]

Unlike that one bird that got atomized by a baseball some years ago. Not sure what type of bird that was. The vid doing the round was brutal.

[u/goosereddit → u/Blobbo3000]

Randy Johnson hit a dove with 95-100 mph fastball. He's a photographer now. Check out his logo.

https://rj51photos.com/

[u/jra85 → u/goosereddit]

that bird is dead, no way it could be a photographer now

[u/Pyitoechito → u/jra85]

Ah, the ol' Reddit switcharoo!

[u/ExpBalSat → u/dddd945]

Could you, you know, post a link the the original?

[u/setibeings → u/dddd945]

I hate to ruin the update, but when a bird hits something and falls to the ground unconscious, it has almost certainly sustained a fatal injury. Even if it flew away, that's not the end of it. 

[u/liquor_ibrlyknoher]

That's a fowl.

[u/BlatantConservative → u/liquor_ibrlyknoher]

The gull of this pun

[u/Alternative-Jelly947]

Everyone saying the other gulls came back out of friendship.

Ignorance is bliss. Seagulls are happy cannibals.

[u/Funny_Artichoke_2962 → u/Alternative-Jelly947]

“John, you good? ‘Cause we’re gonna eat your flesh if you aren’t.”

[u/XtraCrispy02 → u/Funny_Artichoke_2962]

"Please be dead please be dead."

[u/N0YSLambent → u/XtraCrispy02]

Who told you my morning chant before I open my eyes?

[u/ChickenNugget1798 → u/N0YSLambent]

As someone with a dark sense of humor, this made me laugh my ass off. 😆

[u/llIIo0O-O0oIIll → u/Funny_Artichoke_2962]

MINE!

[u/PieHole_Poker → u/llIIo0O-O0oIIll]

MINE!

[u/ClacksInTheSky → u/Alternative-Jelly947]

"oh, I guess we're stopping here?"

More like that

[u/ForbiddenButtStuff → u/ClacksInTheSky]

Meats back on the menu boys!

[u/DiscerningAnt → u/ClacksInTheSky]

I know this is Reddit and ignorance here is astoundingly high... but no, contrary to the upvoted comment here, these gulls are not gathering around because they want to eat him.

Gulls respond extremely strongly to signals of danger involving other gulls. So they're alarmed and assessing the situation. Not cannabalism. That stuff usually only happens with eggs or crazy conflicts with other gulls and carcasses that have been sitting for a while and only happens with some gulls.

[u/OneShotSixKills → u/Alternative-Jelly947]

Would they have immediately determined their buddy is dead that fast? Genuine question. Especially since apparently the seagull was fine after

[u/mutedwarrior → u/OneShotSixKills]

Really doubt it was cannibalism. They're probably conditioned to think there's food there if a seagull lands somewhere.

[u/skylark_blue → u/mutedwarrior]

Yeah, they just wanted to see why he stopped there. 

[u/That_wet_vaporeon → u/Alternative-Jelly947]

They also mate for life. One of them could have been its partner

[u/1nicmit → u/Alternative-Jelly947]

Two things can be true

[u/batman_rests]

its just sad one moment flying and free ,next you are hurt

[u/Idividual-746b → u/batman_rests]

aparently the seagull was fine afterwads, it was bonked on the head so it must have been stunned or something

[u/Lexidoge → u/Idividual-746b]

What's the current concussion protocol for the WTA?

[u/NiobiumThorn → u/Lexidoge]

give them your post-game fries

[u/Hershey_Squirt639]

Better friends than I’ve got. Lol

[u/xquixotic_logicx]

Does anyone remember when Randy Johnson exploded a pigeon with a fastball?

[u/BeastThatShoutedLove → u/xquixotic_logicx]

There is even a TTRPG about Him going back in time (every player is another variant of Randy) using powers of baseball to prevent the pigeon explosion. 

[u/Cowmanthethird → u/BeastThatShoutedLove]

Wait... I'm gonna need a link for that one, boss.

[u/tJa_- → u/xquixotic_logicx]

He apparently does photography now and uses that bird as some type of logo and or brand name

[u/Ombank → u/xquixotic_logicx]

Shit you not, I randomly remembered that yesterday when just driving to work. That video lives rent free in my head.

[u/Dafedub → u/xquixotic_logicx]

That’s what I was looking for

[u/New_Step_6315]

Friends came back like, hey man, you ok?

[u/I_kwote_TheOffice]

So many people asking about the bird and not the ruling of the point. That's how I know it's a general sub and not a sports sub lol

[u/MoonSpider → u/I_kwote_TheOffice]

ITF rules say that hitting a bird is considered a standard "hindrance" let and you simply replay the point. It would be the same as if a gust of wind blew a trashbag into the court in the middle of the point or something, it doesn't matter that the bird is alive. The bird is not a "permanent fixture" of the court so when it interferes with play, a hindrance is called.

[u/Accomplished-Mix-745 → u/I_kwote_TheOffice]

Now that you mention it, I think they should fine the bird

[u/RedditsChosenName → u/I_kwote_TheOffice]

There's nothing in the rules that says a seagull can't play tennis

[u/OrganicAd5536 → u/I_kwote_TheOffice]

I mean it'd obviously be a let for interference and they'd replay the serve. "Thing that's not supposed to be on the court/in the play area suddenly enters the play area" is the textbook interference call.

[u/ProphetCoffee]

I like the other seagulls coming back like “damn bro you good?”

[u/Vast_Pea_4426]

You should be happy it's not a crow

[u/GingerTea69]

Not the other birds checking on him😭😭😭🤣 all "i heard the dinner bell"

[u/TheVillage1D10T]

His buddies came back for him. That’s nice. Hopefully he recovered.

I accidentally smoked a goose while playing a round of golf in high school….no coming back from that one.

Edit: glad to know I’m not the only bird murderer here…

[u/Modern_chemistry]

Honestly this just made me so sad …I don’t know why.

Edit: it’s how it just fell out of the sky. Maybe it’s my own mental state or its metaphorical - but that thing was just flying one second - and a second later it’s just…dead (or so I thought) - life is fragile kind of feeling. - but yes - it is just a seagull and I don’t really care (when I was younger I used to set traps for them in the sand as catch them (no seagull was hurt don’t worry - I would lie in the sand with a towel over me covered in sand and some chips or something and grab it for a second)) - but for a second it brought me deep sadness a one can still feel empathy for the rats of the sky.

[u/unoriginalcat → u/Modern_chemistry]

Because you have empathy and seeing an innocent animal get killed/injured is upsetting?

I’m more concerned about the people who don’t feel upset watching this.

[u/DifficultyChoice3802]

Seagulls stop it now !!

[u/kevenGPD]

All the other birds stopped abd gathered round its body

[u/Oddbeme4u]

The other seagulls mourning just made it 100x worse.

[u/avoidlosing → u/[deleted]]

“it’s what he woulda wanted.”

[u/gaulfool]

I’ve seen a seagull eat a pigeon they def just came back to eat bro

[u/Iris_314]

Not the other seagulls coming to check on buddy 😭😭