Moment woman carries seagull home from night out after finding it outside Wetherspoons… but gets instant karma
Erin Punton, 22, says she was walking home from a night out when she noticed the seagull outside a Wetherspoons in Northumberland.
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One drunken pub-goer took a seagull home with her
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Erin Punton was returning from a Wetherspoons when she picked up the gull
Credit: Jam Press
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In the video, she calls the seagull a 'beauty'
Credit: Jam Press
Feeling more than a little bit tipsy, Erin scooped up the bird and began her journey home.
Filming herself on the way, Erin sang her new winged friend a ballad.
The video shows her belting Valerie by The Zutons - famously covered by Amy Winehouse - with the bird underneath her arm.
Dressed in a pink top and a leather jacket, she can be seen shaking her hair out of her face while continuing to clutch onto the seagull.
Throughout the hilarious footage, she puts a variety of filters over the camera - including one moody, vintage effect.
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Eventually, she staggers into her house and proclaims that the seagull is a 'beauty'.
However, she then adds: 'He actually wants to stop in my room and everything but I've got nowhere for him.'
Erin has revealed that when she woke up the next morning, the mysterious bird was still there.
The 22-year-old said: 'I saw the bird outside Wetherspoons and managed to pick him up without even a thought.
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'I don't even know what made me pick him up.
'I put him in my sitting room with a blanket.
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'When I woke up in the morning, I'd forgotten and he was just floating around the sitting room.
'I dropped him off at the vets the next day in a box and was told he had bird flu.'
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Horrified, Erin admitted that she had to 'bleach her whole house' after discovering her new fluffy friend was ill.
She says the whole incident has left her feeling 'sick'.
The news comes after the 13 seaside towns where feeding seagulls could land you with a fine were revealed.
Public health and anti-social behaviour laws, introduced in 2009, were brought in to fight nuisance behavior from gulls.
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Feeding seagulls can cause an increase in swooping attacks, persistent begging and damage to property.
Several towns have also introduced Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) to clamp down on efforts to feed gulls.
Fine amounts for feeding seagulls in UK seaside towns Exmouth: £80 - £100
Budleigh Salterton: £80 - £100
Sidmouth: £80 - £100
Beer: £80 - £100
Seaton: £80 - £100
Lyme Regis: Up to £100
West Bay: Up to £100
Bridport: Up to £100
St Ives: Up to £100
Whitby: Up to £100
Scarborough: Up to £100
Eastbourne: Up to £100
Hastings: Up to £100
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Erin says she bleached her entire house after learning the gull had bird flu
Credit: Jam Press
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She put various filters over the video of the seagull
Credit: Jam Press
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