The Gull and the Conch

I was at the beach today and I saw something cool. I saw a sea gull pick a conch up in it's beak and fly up with it and drop it. It was a decent size conch, about five inches from the top of it's crown to the pointy part I always step on bare foot, and the gull brought it up pretty high for the drop. He, I really don't know if the bird's packing heat or not so one's as good as the other, brought the conch up for at least five drops before I stopped marveling at natures ingenuity and began wondering. It's kind of amazing when you think about it. We, people, don't have to worry about some giant bird coming along and picking up our house and dashing it against some rocks bent on eating us whole. Imagine how upsetting it would be to be sitting there watching Master Chef when all of a sudden your entire house is lifted a hundred feet into the air and dropped. Would life insurance cover something like that? If there were giant predators on the loose that occasionally swoop down and pick up a particularly plump dude and cart him off to feed to some hungry chicks, would it cost extra to be insured for that? Maybe it depends on where you live. Bad neighborhood in a flood zone with giant predators living nearby could really raise your premiums. This bird must have dropped that conch at least five times. I wanted to see it rip the little occupant out and gulp it down but it was taking too long so I started home. As I was walking I got to thinking. Wouldn't it make more sense if the gull dropped the conch on some rocks. The street's not far, it could drop the oversized sea snail on the black-top. Anything has to be better than repeatedly dropping it on the sand. It would fly up about thirty feet and, thump! The conch would land safely, unscathed, in the sand. I began to wonder if animals have stupid members of their species. Like, for example, we have Anthony Weiner. Seriously New York, you really ought to be ashamed of yourselves if you elect this guy. Do other sea gulls look at this guy and tell jokes about him and make fun of him behind his back? Does another gull tell them to stop that because they should realize that he has a learning disability and it's not his fault he's stupid? Have you condemned an entire breed of dog because the one you had might have been retarded. Maybe not all labs are as dumb as yours. Maybe you just got a slow one. It could be the same with personality. Some folks are inherently pretty cool while some dudes are just assholes. Maybe your dog isn't stupid, it could just be a jerk.