The "Seagull Story" is is rated as false by Snopes who see it as an expression of a folk tale involving an Eagle. There are also other versions of the story. --FLO--

That's a very old "Folk Tale" ...

"In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus had a reputation as being something of a clever trickster and he famously gave the human race the gift of fire and the skill of metalwork, an action for which he was punished by Zeus, who ensured everyday that an eagle ate the liver of the Titan as he was helplessly chained to a rock."

{borrowed from Wikipedia}

Pierceduk (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:23 pm A UK man had his right testicle ripped off by a seagull while he was sunbathing nude. Apparently experts think the seagull mistook the man's testicles as birds eggs in a nest.

http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/seagull-testicle/

(http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/seagull-testicle/)A rogue seagull ripped off a man’s right testicle as he sunbathed naked in his back garden, it has emerged.

Experts say the fearsome bird mistook the man’s exposed privates as a couple of birds eggs and dropped in for a tasty snack.

As the man

– who has not been named –

Pierceduk (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:23 pm dozed on his patio in his detached home near Ipswich, the seagull swooped from the sky, and with one bite of its beak ripped away the right testicle.

He woke screaming in agony, and saw the bird flying away with one of his ‘crown jewels’ wedged in its yellow beak.

His wife called an ambulance, and staff at Ipswich Hospital’s accident and emergency department had to patch him up, and give him a course of antibiotics to prevent infection.

A hospital source said: “Nobody could quite believe it when the poor chap was brought in. There was a lot of blood and he was in agony, but he will feel better in a few weeks.

“The injury is not life threatening, and tests have confirmed that his remaining testicle is still in working order, so he will be able to have children.”

A spokesman for research group Seagull Watch International confirmed that seagulls often feed on the eggs of small birds.

“Eggs are full of protein – it’

Pierceduk (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:23 pm s why we eat them, after all. Gulls will often steal other birds’ eggs, so it is unfortunate for this man that his private parts resembled a couple of eggs in a nest.

“It was no doubt a young adult gull that is still learning to be independent.

“This is the first time we have heard of such an attack in the UK, and it is probably a one-off event, but just in case this particular seagull has now got a taste for ‘men’s eggs’, we would recommend putting some shorts on while sunbathing at home.”

Ipswich Hospital refused to name the seagull victim, or even pass on an interview request from the Suffolk Gazette.

(http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/seagull-testicle/)

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There s a simple test for this very questionable story. All the men who want to be castrated that live near a gull population strip down and lay out in the sun in the nude with their man eggs fully exposed n low hanging in the summer heat and vulnerable to hungry gulls. Then let s see if one nut is bit off by a gull. I ve fed old pizzas to gulls at the ocean n just crusts n thick cheese take some work for gulls to tear apart n gulp down. A man s sack and balls are way tougher than day old pizzas lol.

For the men who want castration there d be no return and re attaching any balls snatched n carried off by gulls. Insurance would even cover it all as an accident or animal attack damage. Hungry schools of Pirrahnas starving in a gold fish bowl would out bite gulls any day lol.

Take a look at the cable tv series named River Monsters, a worldwide fishing expedition show and look for the ball cutters episode. A one hour program of documenting and then trying to catch fish now castrating men in New Guinia rivers. One of the animals really out there cutting men s balls off frequently and capable of doing it easily and lightning fast.

This gives a new twist to the wonderful Max Beerbohm story "A.V. Laider," as funny a story as I've ever read, about a compulsive fabulist. Mention a topic to him and he instantly invents a gruesome story on the subject that he presents as an experience he's had. The end of the story goes like this:

And after a while I happened to say that I had seen this afternoon a great number of sea-gulls flying close to the shore.

“Sea-gulls?” said Laider, turning in his chair.

“Yes. And I don’t think I had ever realised how extraordinarily beautiful they are when their wings catch the light.”

“Beautiful?” Laider threw a quick glance at me and away from me. “You think them beautiful?”

“Surely.”

“Well, perhaps they are, yes; I suppose they are. But—I don’t like seeing them. They always remind me of something—rather an awful thing—that once happened to me.” . . .

It was a very awful thing indeed.