http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-33360817
my sides ache.. my eyes are streaming tears.... my cheeks hurt :)
BBC news rocks!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-33360817
my sides ache.. my eyes are streaming tears.... my cheeks hurt :)
BBC news rocks!
Imagine if the fox had set the mice on them!
Someone falling off their bicycle and losing their glasses, always good for a laugh
'the fox was eventually caught & destroyed' - not so much.
"Mr Staines admitted he "tweaked his groin" trying to get away from the marauding animal "
it's 12 hours later and I still go back and read it :)
I liked this one tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
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Another told the perplexed Gresham police team that the ‘goat only respects one man’ and warned them to stay away
It's not the subject or events that get me, it's the way it's written - absolute classical 'farce' as Zak highlights. Methinks someone at the beeb was making a point.Quote:
Originally Posted by sammyc
^ taken as read; if Zak's granny falls down a ravine, I'll also find the the relevant portions amusing & not the outcome, as here.
I was most amused... until I read "The fox was eventually caught and destroyed".
Now I am just sorely disappointed in the stupidity of humans and wish them similar terror at the hands of nature forever more.
Can they not figure out that it's easy enough to release the fox back into the wild 50 or so miles away, or take it to one of the various wildlife sanctuaries, then?
I surprised they didn't release it in a field and have it pursued by 50 hounds and two dozen fat blokes on horseback.
Wildlife sanctuarys don't wan't them, and you can't just release it in the coutryside either. People do still live there. It's already proven itself to be dangerous. If it's near a farm they'll be very annoyed, and you have to take into account other wildlife habitats close by.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
I would be all for releasing this animal into the wild in a perfect world, but it just isn't. The outcome was the only viable one imh.
And yet someone likely did something to bring it to the situation it was in, so it's of their own making and so I have no sympathy for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy3536
This is the part people forget when they come whining about wild animals. Apparently foxes are vermin, but only because their numbers swelled when their food source (ie the rabbits we brought into this country) increased. So again, we screwed things up and are now complaining when it comes to bite us in the ass...
Some sanctuaries will take animals like this and where they cannot, there are still plenty of guidelines for suitable release areas.
guys... I will be clear on something
IF that fox had not been destroyed .. and IF a child somewhere had been bitten by a fox within 50 miles... in the next year...
you KNOW what the news papers would do with that... don't you? The second fox could have been sky blue pink with blue ears.. people would still assume it's the same fox.
And secondly.. sadly....you cant release an urban fox into the countryside.. it will suffer. It wont have the skills required to survive. Urban foxes and foxes from deep in the countryside have different upbringings... the ability to find food in bin bags, and in peoples vegetable composters, is a different thing to hunting rabbits in a 50 aces woodland. In that you must trust me.
So... sad as it was for the fox... having bitten some stupid woman who tried to feed it.... once that was done, the humane and sensible thing to do is not in the foxs life-plan... it's a quick humane end.
This week, across England, hundreds... possibly many many hundreds of foxes will be shot with 12 guages and rim fire rifles to lower their population. None of them have bitten someone in a carpark.
Bloody hell, how old are you? I haven't heard that since my grandmother was alive. :clapping:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
The old dear's been gone twenty years!
Isn't it strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they been imposed?
I would be laughing so much I wet myself... because that child likely did, or their parents let them do, something wrong in order to get bitten. No different in my eyes to the poor poacher who got stoped by the hippo he was going to shoot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
I've had decades of living around both London urban and very rural foxes, to the point where we hosted local fox watcher gatherings (we weren't fans ourselves, but they offered to pay us for parking) - If you can manage to get that close to a fox for a bite, you're a better ninja than me!
Alconbury isn't exactly 'Tottenham Court Road' urban, though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
5-6km away would be smack in the middle of the countryside and the exact sort of habitat it normally lives in anyway. Rural and semi-rural foxes generally range around 2-3 square miles, if not fully itinerant.
And yet most wild animals are sufficiently adaptable to work out both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
Same thing happens to peoples' dogs - Some kid goes over the fence to chucks stones at it and beats it with a stick, dog has enough and bites kid, dog gets put down while kid gets to play the victim. No animal should have to pay for the stupidity of humans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
The humane thing... even though this thing isn't human.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
The humane thing would be to remove people like this from places where their stupidity messes up, until they can refrain from being idiots!
And many more will take note and avoid those areas. Some will try their luck and that's just what they do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
This. Likewise paying for inconveniencing humans, heaven forfend. All too commonplace, and incensing beyond measure http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...cubs-1.3141652Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
Hardly a thought to temper one's dismay at this story, is it :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Zak33