Sad Seagull NOT an EmergencyMuch like receiving a sauce-less sandwich at Subway, encountering a bird that looks kind of sad because it has to sit in the rain doesn't warrant a call to an emergency hotline. Some people apparently have a hard time understanding this.

According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), over a million calls come in to its emergency help line each year. Many of these calls, of course, are from Britons with a truly urgent dilemma (i.e. iguana attack!). But far too frequently, says the RSPCA, calls to the hotline regard matters ranging from a non-purring cat, to a "turtle" by the side of the road (actually an old soccer ball), to the mental well-being of the aforementioned gull.

Still, RSPCA, who are you to say that a seagull potentially on the brink of a deep depression is a matter to be taken lightly? Who else but a seagull would eat all the seashore trash and harass beach-goers if this bird loses its will to live? Besides Al Roker, we mean. The prevention of cruelty to animals, our ass.