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18-MAR-2006

pizza

Stockholm, Sweden

Someone had dumped a big sack of half-eaten pizzas in the snow covered ice on a lake. A couple of hundred seagulls were furiously attacking the heap. We went close to take a picture. Suddenly a man, somewhat dented by life, came running and yelling on the ice, quite upset

"What about the pizzas?!"

Agitated he went on rambling for a couple of minutes about pizzas, bird-flu, seagulls and crows right to living and eating and the general unjustness of society. Obviously he thought us being inspectors of official function. The situation was absurd. After a while he slowed down and amused we managed to ask for how long the pizzas last.

"For two hours, unless the foxes come out, then it's less. The seagulls are really dumb, if one of them manages to catch a piece of pizza the other seagulls attack the lucky one instead of grabbing a bite on their own".

I thought: "Yes, humans act the same way, but you have probably already experienced that". He calmed down, denied me a picture of him, and strolled home.

Olympus C-7070 Wide Zoom
1/320s f/4.5 at 8.6mm iso80 with Flash full exif

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