He asked his business administrator, George Savastano, to find a solution. “I’d seen too many attacks on seniors and kids,” Gillian told me earlier this year. The town’s brand - its slogan is “America’s Greatest Family Resort” - was being sullied. The mayor swears he saw blood on the little girl’s face, though he admits it may have been sauce. One day that spring, Ocean City’s mayor, Jay Gillian, watched as a gull swooped into a stroller on the boardwalk and stole a slice of pizza from a toddler’s hands. In the years leading up to then, the town’s populations of great black-backed, ring-billed, laughing and herring gulls had become increasingly comfortable snatching beachgoers’ French fries, potato chips and other finger foods. The war between humans and gulls in Ocean City, N.J., reached a turning point in 2019. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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