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The bird tilted its head, the phone still clamped firmly in its beak. It didn't fly away. It just looked at Gazza, then at the half-eaten hash brown sitting on top of Gazza’s bag.

With a surgical strike, the bin chicken snatched the iPhone 15 Pro Max and hopped back onto the bin.

Gazza tossed the piece of potato. The Ibis didn't budge. It wanted the whole thing. aussie reddit

"Standard Sydney morning," he thought, as the light finally turned green.

It was a Tuesday in Sydney, the kind of day where the humidity clings to you like a wet wool jumper. Gazza was standing outside a Maccas in Surry Hills, balancing a large flat white and a sausage McMuffin, waiting for the light to change. The bird tilted its head, the phone still

That’s when he saw it: a White Ibis —better known to locals as a "bin chicken"—perched precariously on the rim of a nearby Council bin. This wasn't just any bin chicken. This one had a certain glint in its eye, a look that said it had survived three lockdowns and a hundred school lunch raids.

Suddenly, a tourist in a pristine "I Love Sydney" t-shirt wandered past, eyes glued to a map on their phone. They stepped right into the bird's strike zone. In a blur of white feathers and a curved black beak, the Ibis didn't go for the tourist's bag. It went for the phone. With a surgical strike, the bin chicken snatched

The tourist was frantic. "It took my phone! It’s got my life on there!"