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Mass. officer has cruiser window smashed by falling quahog
The culprit, presumably a seagull, is still at large.
A Wareham natural resource officer’s car window was smashed by a quahog that presumably fell out of a seagull’s mouth on Monday.
The officer was “shell shocked’ to find his windshield smashed after completing a shift as a “Natural Resource/Shellfish officer,” the Wareham Department of Natural Resources announced on Facebook.
Apparently not ones to rest on their laurels, the Wareham DNR has released an extensive backstory for the presumed seagull offender.
“An investigation was conducted and it has been determined to be a targeted incident because of the nature of his job,” the post said.
The suspect, “Steven Seagul,” is approximately 16 feet tall with a 40 inch wingspan, the Wareham DNR estimated. He was last seen wearing “white and gray feathers with matching yellow beak and feet.”
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“Seagul” frequents local seafood bars during low tide and often poops on beachgoers, the post says.
“We are happy to report that the quahog was within legal harvesting size and did not sustain any injuries. However, it was harvested without a shellfish permit so it was returned to deeper water.”
Quahogs, also know as hard clams, are native to the Atlantic seaboard.
Meanwhile, followers far and wide have been sharing their own dropped clam stories on the post — apparently it happens more often than you’d think. They’ve also been commenting on the Wareham incident (and the DNR’s account of it).
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“Lock him up. He is a flight risk,” commented John Wait on the Facebook post. “If Steven is not captured soon, he may take a tern for the worse.”
Erika Gaznick, meanwhile, stated simply, “Looks like he flew the coop.”
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