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Britain
Protesters Dump Dead Animals, Go Topless
2004-09-29
Oboy! More titties!
Pro-hunt demonstrators dumped animal carcasses and women went topless amid noisy protests on Tuesday outside Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party conference. Blowing horns
... at the honkers...
and waving signs that read: "Fight Prejudice, Fight the Ban" and "Fox-Off Blair," about 8,000 demonstrators against plans to outlaw fox-hunting marched along the Brighton seafront, flanked by hundreds of police in riot gear. Several women dressed in black bathing suits removed their tops and jumped into the chilly English Channel waters as part of the protest. They were joined by members of "Surfers 4 Hunting" riding surfboards.
"Dewd!"
Tempers flared between some protesters — who defend hunting as an essential part of Britain's rural heritage — and a handful of hunt opponents who denounce the centuries-old pursuit as a barbaric bloodsport. Witnesses said the carcasses of two calves were left close to the conference center while a dead horse was deposited outside. Two men were arrested.
"Put yer 'ands up and step away from the dead horse, Trevor!"
Parliamentarians from Blair's Labor Party overwhelmingly voted on Sept. 16 to ban hunting with hounds on a day that saw some 10,000 hunt supporters protest outside parliament and a handful break in to the historic debating chamber. Protestors say a ban would cost thousands of rural jobs and is based purely on class prejudice.
No good pics. Damn
No source on this. Damn.
Posted by:Weird Al

#14  good post ex-lib. that jack asses are dump em animal carcases on the street is show some of them mindset. >:(
Posted by: muck4doo   2004-09-29 7:08:04 PM  

#13  I think the foxes in the first 2 pix (foxes1 / foxes2) are for it - and I think the third (foxes3) one seems to be of foxes against the practice. Love the UK ladies.

SNSFW
Posted by: .com   2004-09-29 6:42:02 PM  

#12  It's interesting to see the proponents of fox-hunting, a decidedly rural and traditional practice, resorting to protest methods more commonly associated with pop-culture radicalism.

As a youngster I happened to attend a few fox hunts. (Normally, someone from my urban working class background would not have gotten within five miles of such an event, but one of my dad's old mates from Bomber Command was a peer of the realm and sometimes invited us out.)
Oscar Wilde famously defined fox hunting as "the inedible pursued by the unspeakable." Contrary to this and the sport's image here in the states, however, most of the participants were actually middle-class rural folk and not aristocrats at all.

When the chase was on, I was inclined to cheer for the fox, but I am not sure this impulse should be backed by the coercive power of the law.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-09-29 5:45:09 PM  

#11  Weasel hunt????

Fred - Ya goin' to France or Germany?
Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-29 5:38:05 PM  

#10  Yea Rafael they are mostly named Jacques and Gerhard.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-09-29 4:59:51 PM  

#9  Do they have weasels in Europe?
Posted by: Rafael   2004-09-29 4:03:21 PM  

#8  I used to have ducks in my back yard that I liked. They were pretty harmless creatures who spent most of their time quacking, eating, and pooping, never really bothering anyone. Between the foxes and the weasels they're all gone now, and it wasn't pretty.

That wasn't sportsmanlike, either. I'm in favor of mounting up for foxhunts, and if anyone organizes a weasel hunt, just let me know. I'll rent a horse.
Posted by: Fred   2004-09-29 3:54:26 PM  

#7  "No tities, but some leg is shown...."

Foxy ladies.
Posted by: Memesis   2004-09-29 3:52:25 PM  

#6  Now, don't everyone go nuts on me, but isn't fox hunting somewhat unsportsmanlike?

The anti-fox hunting groups say that the fox hunters:

" . . .will say that a fox is always killed by hounds with a quick nip on the back of the neck, thus severing the spinal chord. It may finally die this way, but it is likely that it will suffer multiple agonising injuries before the final 'nip' is given. "

Now I've had dogs, and fox hunting dogs, are not skilled "snipers" or even trained retrievers. If they catch a fox, they will tear it shreds, and have a "fun ol' time of it," too. Everybody that has owned dogs already knows they behave that way--so what's up with the fox hunters trying to make it "pretty" and "sanitized"? It is what it is.

Anyway, fox hunting a BIG issue in Britain, and I just wonder why terrorism isn't.

For further interest: Here's one website at this link, which is devoted to dispelling myths the industry promotes about fox hunting. And the BBC has pages of incredibly extensive point/counter-point debate and information covering the issue, at this link , and another site, at this link has a video of a bunch of dogs tearing a fox to shreds, which is pretty much what happens, unless a dog "gets lucky" and kills quickly on the first try.
Posted by: ex-lib   2004-09-29 3:38:54 PM  

#5  And here is a link from the hounds.co.uk website

Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-29 11:37:37 AM  

#4  Link from telegraph.co.uk

No tities, but some leg is shown....
Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-29 11:34:16 AM  

#3  Normally a link uses full quotation marks, for some reason rantburg requires single quotations. So:

[a href="http://www.reuters.com"]link[/a]

becomes

[a href='http://www.reuters.com']link[/a]

with angle brackets instead of the square brackets of link
Posted by: rjschwarz   2004-09-29 10:42:55 AM  

#2  Haven't figured out how to hook up the links yet. Sorry. Appreciate any help.
Posted by: Weird Al   2004-09-29 10:32:26 AM  

#1  The source was Rooters.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=6354992
Why can't I link?
Posted by: Asedwich   2004-09-29 10:02:11 AM  

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