Take that seagull!

Was snorkelling / spearfishing in Torquay back when I was a lad.
Caught a couple of fish, and put them on top of a handy rock, and went down to look for some more.
Came back up about 10 metres away, to find a seagull pecking away at my dinner.
Shouting didn't bother the gull in the slightest, and it started to make strenuous efforts to get more of MY dinner down it neck.
..so in my outraged state, I tried to shoot it with my speargun.

Got close but missed, unsurprisingly.

Much more surprising was the highly elastic nature of the string attached to the spear - which reached its extremity before reaching the gull, and then caused the spear to return whence it came, whistling past my head, missing it my millimetres.

Closest I've managed to get to the Darwin Awards..so far.
(BeatsWork, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 15:07, Reply)