The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is concerned about escalating reports of drunk, vomiting seagulls that reek of beer in Great Britain’s Somerset region. But then who wouldn’t be?

Here’s the deal…

The RSPCA center in Somerset has taken in 30 drunk seagulls in the past two weeks but they remain “puzzled by how exactly the birds are becoming so inebriated,” according to the Drinks Business.

One prevent theory is that the gulls are drinking beer left on beaches in the area.

However, a spokesperson from the RSCPA’ office in Taunton, Somerset doesn’t believe this is how they’re getting so drunk and neither do we, as most Brits we know never leave an unfinished bottle.

And the idea that the beer-crazed gulls are somehow getting drunk on brewery byproducts like spent grain donated to local farmers makes even less sense as that kind of debris contains only negligible amounts of alcohol if any.

But the fact remains that boozed-up birds are on the increase in the coastal region a situation that vegetarians like David Couper describe as very unusual…

“Some of the birds have been found unconscious or staggering and all were reeking of alcohol.” Others look terrible but recover after a day or so of rest and rehydration,”

DevonLive recently reported on one particularly disturbing incident where a team of six firefighters were called to Lyme Regis “after reports of a gull behaving erratically.”

The drunken gull had already fallen off the roof when the firefighters arrived but that skirmish was just beginning!

One firefighter tried catch the bird that was attempting to fly, the gull retaliated in kind. “I caught him and he threw-up all over me and he reeked of beer”.

So at this point there appears to be no solution to the growing number of drunken seagull incidents now plaguing the South Wales beaches…But we’ll stay on top of this ongoing crisis in the United Kingdom as things develop.

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