Tax to protect customers' sandwiches from seagulls

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Arab Weather - <strong>Cheesy Toast Shack</strong> in St Andrews is seeking to impose a £1 insurance on all purchases, due to its ongoing problems with seagulls stealing food from about <strong>30 customers a day.</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Tax to protect customers&#39; sandwiches from seagulls</h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Cheesy Toast Shack owners complain about having to offer free replacements to dozens of customers every day, due to seagulls stealing food they&#39;ve just bought. Kate Carter Large, one of the store&#39;s owners, says:</p><blockquote style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> “Seagulls are very aggressive and really scary. We are a family business and I can’t sit and watch a sandwich get stolen without replacing it, so I will always offer another sandwich for free. </p></blockquote><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ar" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Sky thieves.. A food truck compensates customers for seagull thefts <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%85_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2?... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Seagull?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#S... <a href="https://t.co/jQaU65zOB5">pic.twitter.com/jQaU65zOB5</a></p> — Erem News - Erem News (@EremNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/EremNews/status/1825625794074247262?ref_src=twsrc%5E... 19, 2024</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><ul style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><li style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Failed attempts to confront</strong></h3></li></ul><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Kate admits that seagull attacks have “increased significantly” over the past three years. She and her husband Sam, who runs the shop with her, have tried several methods to deter the birds, including playing bird-of-prey noises and buying a bird-of-prey kite from Amazon, but all have failed.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Kate said:</p><blockquote style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> “The birdsong wasn’t the perfect ambiance we wanted on the beach, and the kite we bought didn’t do anything – people would sit under it, and the seagulls would still attack.”</p></blockquote><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><ul style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><li style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Insurance as an innovative solution</strong></h3></li></ul><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In an effort to deal with the situation, Sam has come up with the idea of an optional “gull insurance,” which he hopes will help offset some of the losses from bird theft, and provide a way for the company to support its humanitarian efforts. “Our business is family-run, Sam and I run it, our kids are here almost every day, and Sam’s cousin works in the kitchen,” Kate explained. “It’s not just a faceless business, and we want people to remember the kind gestures people make.”</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The family hopes this new insurance will help ease some of the financial burden caused by the seagulls, and allow them to continue to provide excellent service to their customers.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> See also:</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%... complain: Self-driving cars honking at each other at night</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D8%A5%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D9%83%D8%AA... you type these characters on your iPhone it will crash it</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><hr /><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Sources:</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Daily Mail</p>