International South Korea panics and raises the alarm over a Flock of Seagulls

[Rhood]

South Korea's military launched fighter planes and helicopters on Tuesday in response to what turned out to be a flock of birds amid high tensions with neighboring North Korea.

The country's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military had detected a flying object crossing the Military Demarcation Line from North Korea and scrambled aircraft in response.
"There was a situation today, but it was evaluated as a flock of birds, not North Korean drones," the joint chiefs said in a statement, according to South Korean news outlet KBS News, the country's national broadcaster.
"We detected and tracked it from around 1.00p.m. to 4.00p.m. today," an official said.

Fighter planes and attack helicopters were deployed and pilots are reported to have visually confirmed that the flying object was a flock of birds.
Korea JoongAng Daily, an English-language newspaper, reported that the flying object near Seongmo Island in Ganghwa County was suspected of being an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
The newspaper also reported that a total of 20 military aircraft had been deployed on Monday in an attempt to shoot down North Korean drones that had crossed the border.
One of the five drones that entered South Korean airspace flew above Seoul, the country's capital, and all the drones returned to North Korean territory without sustaining damage.
South Korean aircraft fired at the drones, with one helicopter attempting unsuccessfully to shoot down a drone over Gyodong Island, by the North Korean border, according to South Korean news agency NEWS1.

The last time a drone from North Korea entered South Korea's airspace was in 2017 and tensions are high between the two countries.
https://www.newsweek.com/south-korea-scrambles-fighter-planes-helicopters-over-flock-birds-1769704

 

[idrankyourbeer]

The flock of seagulls have just issued their response:

 

[idrankyourbeer]

imagine deploying fighter jets and attack helicopters and having your military on full alert and potentially kicking off world war 3 all over a bunch of shithawks flying around lol

move aside cuban missile crisis. what a better way to close out the year than to have a Korean Seagull Crisis

 

[Jar of Flies]

In South Korea’s defense, they were pretty ill-tempered seagulls.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

In South Korea’s defense, they were pretty ill-tempered seagulls.

there has been uncomfirmed visual sightings of one of the seagulls. i think his name is steven.

no wonder they sent in the military jets to deal with this pesky seagull. they didn't want to take any chances and wind up being on the receiving end of one of its vicious front kicks.

 

[IDGETKTFO]

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

I thought this was a reference to the music group, and I was like "geeze, are they really that far behind Western culture?"

 

[HOLA]

 

[crystallake]

Well not everyone is a fan of 80s music, I can see that.

 

[Beechwood]

American's border with Biden's policy of an open border is crazy, allowing millions into the country.

S. Korea's border is so secure they don't even allow birds to fly into their country.

 

[StocktonMuhfuh]

To be fair It would be like if there was a DMZ enforced by the UK after the Civil War between the North and South of the U.S. And generations later with better weaponry one side is still itching to invade and dominate and teabag and taunt the other.

I would be jumpy too.

 

[FIMN]

Atttaaaaaack!

 

[StocktonMuhfuh]

American's border with Biden's policy of an open border is crazy, allowing millions into the country.

S. Korea's border is so secure they don't even allow birds to fly into their country.

Hell we used to even have a good Canadian border. I was watching the movie Fly Away Home recently and they scrambled air force jets over some Canadian geese and a little girl and her dad guiding them along in geese shaped airplanes. Thats the border security we need again.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

American's border with Biden's policy of an open border is crazy, allowing millions into the country.

S. Korea's border is so secure they don't even allow birds to fly into their country.

once i was pretty hungover and needed something to munch on and i ended up buying a loaf of bread and heading down to the beach with a buddy and i could only manage to eat a few slices and didnt care to try to eat anymore so i started throwing pieces of bread at the seagulls and eventually a flock of 30 or so of these shithawks flew in and theyre all flying around the beach overtop of people, chasing the other seagulls to try to steal its bread and they just kept circling around and then coming back for more bread.

some old dude came over and yelled at us. i thought it was hilarious. for a good half hour i had a bunch of shithawks swarming around fighting each other while people on the beach were covering their heads around them because they were afraid of getting shit on

 

[The_Renaissance]

Quite funny but in the current climate, you can't blame them for being jittery as fuck.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

Quite funny but in the current climate, you can't blame them for being jittery as fuck.

with the current gas prices i guess they would rather just fly

 

[cincymma79]

Damn it. Beat me to it.

 

[IDGETKTFO]

Damn it. Beat me to it.

 

[7even]

Would of been total badass if it was just 99 red balloons and WW3 goes underway.

 

[cincymma79]

Would have been total badass if it was just 99 red balloons and WW3 goes underway.

I heard they let them go at the break of dawn