A smashed window that originally gave the impression to be vandalism turned out to have pure causes, reviews Boston.com. Vandals sometimes use rocks or hammers to interrupt home windows, however Nantucket police discovered a special implement of destruction within the again seat: a quahog, in any other case often known as a tough clam. Seagulls sometimes decide up a quahog (to not be confused with Peter Griffin’s hometown in close by Rhode Island) from the bottom and drop it from excessive within the air to interrupt it open for a meal. Police say the fowl seemingly missed the paved car parking zone on the Depraved Island Bakery and unintentionally hit the again window of normal supervisor Heather Woodbury’s automotive.
“He had seen all the damaged shells already from all the opposite quahogs that this obvious felony seagull had dropped and eaten the meat out of, however he did not get into the one which dropped into my automotive,” Woodbury advised WHDH. She additionally speculated that maybe this was not an accident in any case. “The jokes round city are simply that the seagull didn’t get the morning buns, which is our signature merchandise, and so it bought indignant and took it out on my automotive,” Woodbury advised WHDH. Indignant human clients have been recognized to do that, and we have seen birds go on glass-smashing rampages earlier than, so it isn’t unprecedented.
A repeat offender?
An nameless supply has knowledgeable the Nantucket Present that there could also be a connection between the mindless vandalism of Woodbury’s automotive and a 2024 theft. A seagull matching the vandalism suspect’s description allegedly stole airport supervisor and man from Nantucket Noah Karberg’s pockets from his purchasing cart whereas on the native Cease and Store grocery retailer. Video exhibits the suspect standing on a roof rifling by way of the pockets’s contents. In contrast to sure people, the fowl appeared uninterested within the money because it blew away earlier than retreating with the pockets. (An Apple AirTag would have been an effective way to trace it down.)
The seagull suspected in that crime was by no means apprehended. It might really feel emboldened and has now focused Heather Woodbury. I’ve by no means had the pleasure of sampling the Depraved Island Bakery’s morning buns, but when they’re nearly as good because the locals say they’re, that might give the seagull the motive, means, and alternative to perpetrate this crime in opposition to humanity.
