State Courts

On the boardwalk: Wichita man cited for beating seagull

By Ron Sylvester

Laguna Beach police cited a Wichita man on “suspicion of animal cruelty” after he beat a seagull with a stick when it attacked him and his wife while swooping down on their ice cream.

The Orange County Register reports that Dragan Djuric, 50, was waving a stick trying to fend off several aggressive — and endangered — Heermann’s gulls as they ate ice cream on the boardwalk early on New Year’s Eve. Laguna Beach police said the gulls hit Djuric’s wife in the head and pooped on him. One of the birds suffered a broken wing and was later euthanized.

Full post as published by What the Judge Ate for Breakfast on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).