Robert Foster, 66, was assaulted by the mad seabird while walking his Jack Russell dog in Larkholme Parade on Friday night (June 25).
The gull stroked on Robert while walking along the green where the nesting seabirds are typically perched atop cottages with their young chicks.
“It was scary. Usually they just swoop near you, but this one really went for me,” said Robert, who was up to the flooring and banged his head in the crazy attack.
“It swooped down and hit me on the head,” included Robert, who makes up music for tv and has actually worked together with super stars consisting of Elton John and David Essex.
“I attempted to protect myself however fell forward and strike my head on the kerb. I was walking my dog and I believe that’s what agitated the gull. It was her 2 children she was securing, I believe.
“The unexpected thing was the speed of the attack. They can move extremely quick in the air.
“Bobby the Jack Russell was okay. He in fact simply strike the deck when I tipped over.
“I’m recovering and I actually look far worse because of bruising from the fall, but it’s worth warning others.
“I’m sure a lot of people don’t realise just how dangerous they can actually be. One person told us her father suffered a punctured lung from a gull attack.”
When seagulls attack: “I knew a man who had to wear a crash helmet”
Robert isn’t the only one to discover himself on the getting end of a gulls’ rage. Other locals in the location state they have actually likewise been running for cover.
“It makes you afraid of going out of your own house sometimes,” said Maureen Pulley, who lives in the area.
“We have actually had 2 infants on our roofing system for a number of weeks now and get informed off by the moms and dads each time we come out of your house, so we need to take care,” she said.
“Similar thing happened to me the other day in exactly the same area near the Rossall Tavern,” included Cathy Krenn-Foale. “A big gull got so close to my face. Scared the life out of me.”
Cheryl Hargreaves said: “My child can’t enter her garden with her little boy in this good weather condition due to the fact that at the back of her the cottage feeds them.
“Now they have infants on the roofing system and they swoop at anybody who heads out in the garden.”
Another Larkholme citizen said he understood a man who needed to use a crash helmet to safeguard himself from the gulls bombarding him in his garden.
And regional citizen Debra Lang just recently checked out Blackpool Zoo where she said the gangs of gulls were ‘out of control’.
“All the school kids where getting attacked while eating their packed lunches. Proper vicious they were. They kept circling round us, squawking and diving for our food. They’re vicious!” said Debra.
