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2004-09-29 Britain

Protesters Dump Dead Animals, Go Topless

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Posted by Weird Al 2004-09-29 8:22:36 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 10:02:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 10:32:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-09-29 10:42:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Link from telegraph.co.uk

No tities, but some leg is shown....

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-29 11:34:16 AM|| 2004-09-29 11:34:16 AM|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-29 11:37:37 AM|| 2004-09-29 11:37:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 3:38:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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

Foxy ladies.

Posted by Memesis 2004-09-29 3:52:25 PM|| 2004-09-29 3:52:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 3:54:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Do they have weasels in Europe?

Posted by Rafael 2004-09-29 4:03:21 PM|| 2004-09-29 4:03:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Yea Rafael they are mostly named Jacques and Gerhard.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-29 4:59:51 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-09-29 4:59:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Weasel hunt????

Fred - Ya goin' to France or Germany?

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-29 5:38:05 PM|| 2004-09-29 5:38:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 5:45:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 6:42:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2004-09-29 7:08:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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