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June 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Daily Mail Reporter
10:31 EST, 29 June 2012
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10:32 EST, 29 June 2012
Royal Mail has suspended deliveries to homes in a quiet coastal town after a postwoman was attacked by seagulls.
The service said the unarmed postal worker was repeatedly dive-bombed by the flock of unfriendly birds in a series of ‘swooping attacks’ in the town of Elgin, northern Scotland.
Even the service’s most hardy postal
workers are now too scared to visit the town.
The claims are eerily reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film The Birds in which a Californian town is overrun by flocks of killer birds.
No go zone: The street in Elgin, Scotland, where Royal Mail postmen are refusing to deliver letters because they claim that they are being attacked by seagulls
Terrifying: A scene from the 1963 film The Birds written by Alfred Hitchcock in which residents of a village in Northern California are attacked by birds that have declared war on them
Residents in Elgin, northern Scotland, have now been told they will have to collect their mail from the post office until the nesting season ends.
Many residents are elderly or housebound, and have had difficulty getting to the Post Office on Elgin’s High Street.
And while residents, many of whom are elderly and housebound, Royal Mail insists its staff have been ‘attacked’ while attempting to deliver mail there.
‘Under the circumstances, delivery has been suspended until the problem is resolved,’ a letter to affected homes says.
However, long-term residents have been left bewildered. George McPhee, said: ‘I am 66 and retired and I am one of the young ones.
‘The seagulls are a problem. They are a pest, but I have been 41 years in the same house and they have never hurt anybody – and that’s including kiddies, dogs and cats.
‘Even during The Blitz everybody was
getting their post. You cannot just down tools. If you are a postie, you
are a postie. If they have to issue them hard hats then so be it,’ he
said.
Royal Mail
spokesperson, Jennifer Bird, said the regular postwoman had, experienced
a number of ‘swooping attacks’ by seagulls over the past few weeks.
As a result, the decision was taken to postpone deliveries to 20 houses on Muirfield Road, New Elgin.
‘Other postmen have also had to deal with the same issue delivering to this area,’ she added.
‘The safety of our people is paramount
to Royal Mail and these swooping attacks have made it difficult for her
to continue to do her job.
‘Unfortunately,
these frightening attacks have meant that this week we have temporarily
suspended deliveries to some addresses in Muirfield Road. These kinds
of attacks do occur at this time of year across the country as gulls are
nesting.’
Angry residents hold a letter from Royal Mail telling them that they will have to collect their post fro a local depot – despite some of them being housebound
Ms Bird said Royal Mail was continuing to monitor the situation.
‘We
apologise to those customers affected and we will resume deliveries as
soon as it is safe for our people to do so,’ she said.
Housebound: Isabella MacPhee won’t be able to receive her letters
Housebound
Isabella Macphee, 80, said she rarely leaves her home at No 43 and is
having to rely on neighbours to collect her post for her.
She
said: ‘It’s not my fault about the seagulls, is it? There’s seagulls
everywhere. Why are they (Royal Mail) picking on me here?’
Connie Ritchie, 72, at No 26, described the situation as ‘ridiculous’. While acknowledging that the Post Office has a duty of care to its workers, the 72-year-old said something has to be done to resolve the matter. ‘We pay for stamps for mail to be delivered to our addresses,’ she said.
Elgin City South councillor John Divers said he was contacted by a number of residents but after looking into the issue with Moray Council, explained there is little that can be done due to the gulls being a protected ‘amber’ species.
The local authority, he added, could potentially take action before the nesting season next year to protect council-owned properties, which covers around half in the affected area on Muirfield Road, but private owners would be responsible for their own homes.
The council would also need the co-operation of Scottish Natural Heritage to take any action.
‘Because they have young there is nothing we can do about them at the moment,’ Councillor Divers said. ‘Before the nesting season next year we(the council) can see what we can do, but the private housing would have to get things done themselves.
‘They have had this problem for years and it is when they are nesting.It’s an interesting thing. I was speaking to a resident earlier in the week and it just appears to be the postmen they are attacking.
‘But people who are housebound, how the hell are they going to get their mail, and that does concern me.’
Councillor Divers said he has brought the issue to the council’s housing committee, to see if any action can be taken before next year.
He also questioned why gulls should even be a protected species. ‘These gulls are protecting their young, and it is happening everywhere every year (in Moray), just not to the point where postal deliverieshave been stopped,’ he said.
‘The birds are apparently protected, but if you speak to anybody in the community the first thing they want to know is why, because there are thousands of the things. Nobody can understand it.’
A Moray Council spokesman said gulls nesting in urban areas has become an ‘increasing problem’ over the years.
‘They do become aggressive and possessive of their chicks during the summer,’ he said. ‘But they are protected species and so we as a council, and people in general for that matter, are very limited in terms of what we can do to resolve this problem.
‘We can try to ‘proof’ nesting areas, but the problem is that they just move along from one chimney stack to the next. The only way to deter them is to proof or cover up nesting on certain sites.
‘I suspect it will be resolved when the breeding season is over and the young have gone.’
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These so-called seagulls are probably herring gulls of which, are not strictly seabirds, any more than choughs are. It’s just that they prefer the seaside but are in fact scavengers; you do not see them dive into the sea and pluck out fish like gannets, terns, fulmars; etc. In one costal resort, they fed on landfill, defecated on the public in a nearby town and a time came when they nearly suffocated a baby in a pram by dumping all over the poor baby. They cured the problem by employing a hawker for a few weeks and the problem went away. People create a rod for their own backs by continually feeding them or allowing waste food to be left out for them. In many Cornish towns now, we have by-laws that prohibit folks from feeding them as they become aggressive after a while. In St Ives, you cannot take a pasty out into the street without them attacking you and what’s more, if you resist, they come back and defecate all over you.
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@ ==I wouldn’t be at all surprised if these seagulls are the supersize ones that steal food from the pig farm in Hopemen, not far from Elgin.They are already a menace there. – Bignigefromfrance, Poitiers, 29/6/2012 18:45 @
When I read it first I saw the supersize seagulls ‘stealing the pigs’ and that conjured up quite a vision, then I saw it was only their food. Ah well, pigs can fly – – – –
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a couple of niggly points though 1./ Isabella most likely doesn’t get any post other than readers digest and mail order rubbish, that’s all i ever deliver to pensioners 2/ Connie at No 26, described the situation as ‘ridiculous’.”We pay for stamps for mail to be delivered to our addresses,”, no you don’t, hence why RM is losing money
– Ben, Wolverhampton, 29/6/2012 20:58*******************************Firstly, you sarcastic man, what business is it of yours what people’s mail consists of, secondly, are you not well paid to deliver junk mail, and thirdly, would you like to explain what your final sentence means?
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Why are seaguls a protected bird? they donot seem at risk with the quantities flocking not only around the coast but they are a major problem inland now.A local fishing pool is now a nogo area for anglers as the gulls flock to the pool and attack the anglers to get their bait..If you attempt to repel their attack you can be prosecuted.I remember an old saying from my childhood that you only saw seagulls inland if the weather was bad on the coast. Maybe the landfill waste sites which seem to be covered in gulls is a major contributing factor.
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We get seagulls where we live beside the coast; every year they used leave and go to the Isle of Wight to do their nesting as there are cliffs there. This year this doesn’t appear to have happened. Several stupid neighbours in two adjacent roads started feeding the darned things which meant they knew where to find food. Then when it was time to mate the seagulls found out that they could build nests up on folk’s dormer roofs in the angle twixt the main roof and the flat roof. The racket has been dreadful now for months; and yes I watched the birds protecting the nests; now the young ones are big enough to fly; they use the dormer roofs as runways. We have screaming, meeowing (yes they meeo, like cats), fighting from 4a.m. onwards The birds fly round and round in circles, dropping mess all over everything including us! You can be in the garden and they are swooping around low enough to part your hair. Small birds fly off in desperation when the seagulls are ‘doing their thing’.
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I’d be surprised if residents in our area would notice if Royal Mail suspended our deliveries.
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a couple of niggly points though
1./ Isabella most likely doesn’t get any post other than readers digest and mail order rubbish, that’s all i ever deliver to pensioners
2/ Connie at No 26, described the situation as ‘ridiculous’.”We pay for stamps for mail to be delivered to our addresses,”, no you don’t, hence why RM is losing money
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I wonder why these thing are protected, there are millions of them. If they are attacking people they should be humainly culled. I know the resiidents are not getting the post delivered, but on the bright side, they are not getting any junk mail.
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I’m a postman and this is embaressing, public be aware we’re not all useless jobsworths, some of us are still trying in vain to keep the traditional postie spirit.
Also note though this job is nowhere near what you think it is, it’s not easy and it’s only getting harder and harder.
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Further steps along the road to our becoming a 3rd rate nation.
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