A local bakery owner in Nantucket thought her car had been broken into when she found her back windshield shattered on Wednesday.

When police investigated further, they realized it wasn’t the kind of “fowl” play they expected.

The suspect, a seagull.

“Through police investigative work, I guess you’ll say they realized there was a quahog in my back seat, and said ‘Is there a reason you would have a whole quahog in your back seat?'” Heather Woodbury said, owner of Wicked Island Bakery. “And I was like ‘Like a shell?’ and they were like ‘No like a whole one’ and I was like ‘No because then it would stink and die.”

They say the bird was most likely trying to break the quahog open by dropping it.

“he had seen all of the broken shells already from all the other quahogs that this apparent cr

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