Woman Captures Seagull Stealing $22 Lobster Roll From Her Hand
Pepperdine sports law professor Alicia Jessop was visiting Maine from California recently when she stopped by a popular tourist destination for a lobster roll. When she held out the roll to take a picture of it, a seagull swooped in at the exact moment Jessop pressed the shutter.
“I wanted a lobster roll because that’s been a bucket list item of mine since I was a kid: to get a lobster roll in Maine,” Jessop tells BuzzFeed News. “I was kind of like figuring out how to hold the lobster roll — Do I hold it long? Do I hide it wide? What angle should the lighthouse be in? — and then I just felt something move the lobster roll. I didn’t even see the seagull coming.”
The seagull caused her sandwich to be scattered everywhere, attracting a swarm of other birds. Jessop managed to capture a perfectly-framed shot of the theft, and she later shared the unusual seagull photobomb picture on her Twitter, where it has been going wildly viral.
This is why we can’t have nice things. I was trying to take a picture of the lobster roll I ordered in Maine and well, this happened 😂🤦🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/N601vpQ41h
— Alicia Jessop (@RulingSports) June 7, 2019
She did end up buying and eating a second lobster roll, so she was able to cross off this bucket list item.
$43 and one seagull attack later, I am now enjoying my first lobster roll at Fox’s Lobster House in York, Maine. pic.twitter.com/ZsBFjakcfU
— Alicia Jessop (@RulingSports) June 7, 2019
$43 isn’t exactly cheap for a sandwich lunch, but at least Jessop left with a photo and memory for a lifetime.
Image credits: Photograph by Alicia Jessop and used with permission