A man has received what critics call a “slap on the wrist” after he “horrified bystanders” by decapitating a peckish seagull who tried to snatch a fry from his daughter on a boardwalk near the Jersey Shore.
On July 6, 2024, Franklin Ziegler, 30, was seen walking along the North Wildwood boardwalk near Surfside Pier at Morey’s Piers and Beachfront Water Parks, holding a decapitated seagull in his hand.
According to reports, he had lost his temper after the seabird tried to snatch a snack from his daughter, driving him to kill the creature.
Police were called when “horrified bystanders, many of them families and children, witnessed Zeigler publicly wrench off a seagull’s head after the bird attempted to take a French fry from his daughter,” In Defense of Animals explains in a statement. Zeigler then asked several Morey’s Pier employees “for a trash bag while holding the dead bird’s body.”
Ziegler later admitted on police body camera footage that he killed the bird after it pestered his daughter for food. Authorities said he also became confrontational while officers questioned him at the scene.
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