Annoyed - scammers and "youths"

[Elphinstone's Army]

Elphinstone's Army Wrote:

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> stringvest is moving to the countryside

> I am not suggesting for one moment that I am ok

> with lads killing pigeons

> Why would anyone exhort the OP to ignore me when

> I am the only respondent taking a long term view

> most people see pigeons as vermin and ok to kill

> these are unpalatable facts of life and you are

> rsponding as soft townies

>

> I fear for her and anyone who saw/heard Spike

> MILLIGAN?s daughter describing how, when they were

> children in the family car ready to be off on

> holiday, a bird flew into the windscreen and broke

> its neck

I now realise that this statement is incomplete - how? why?

anyway, they were in the car, packed ready to roll, the bird was dead, Spike who would have been driving,

exited the car, went in the house, in his room, holiday ruined. He was so upset. Apparently he was a VSP

and I wonder if stringvest, with your heightened sensibilities and acute compassion and what we would call

in the north, being soft (not a pejorative term I assure you) and feel deeply for people, animals, abstract

emotions, suffer in the same way?

Do not be buying into the country idyll, as joeleg carefully described, things are not always as they seem,

remember the song 'how you gonna keep 'em down on the farm, now that they've seen East Dulwich'

[Jules-and-Boo]

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[Chick]

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>

> If this is how you are with pigeons in the road,

> what are you going to be like living in the

> country, with sounds of slaughter through the

> night, are you going to be running outside with a

> lantern and a stern expression?

> particularly when the hunt passes your door, dogs

> in a box on an open truck, beagles not always used

> unless it's a drag hunt, and oops, a fox, well

> dogs will be dogs ...buzzards and other birds of

> prey flapping past your window with baby bunnies

> wriggling, fixed in their claws, red kites

> swooping into your garden to attack, maim, carry

> away kittens, cats, small pet rodents, rats, mice

> and voles, pigeons and/or starlings in your loft,

> or crows as we had, sound like buffalo at 5 in the

> morning, making nests, then abandoning them and

> smelly dead birds unreachable, or the ganging up

> on injured, small, wounded birds by others,

> pecking them till they are bloody and dead, a

> bedraggled fox attempting to leap your fence with

> hounds pulling him back down and tearing him

> apart, crazy rabbits in the road with myxomatosis

> which we are assured by DEFRA does not exist any

> more, badgers hunted late at night, flickering

> lights and shouts, neighbours with Jack Russell

> terriers do not keep them because they are cute,

> roadkill, including cats, lambs with their eyes

> pecked out, Crows and foxes wait until the lambs

> are actually being born, to make their kill (did

> you know this), wayward dogs shot, legally by the

> farmer, dragged to and dumped at the side of the

> road, weaned/weaning calves calling their mothers

> who are bellowing in distress for them,

> never to see, lick or feed them again, milk needed

> for humans, bullocks for the abattoir, heifers to

> repeat the process, the lorry pulling out of the

> local farm, crammed with bewildered sheep, cattle,

> goats, where do you think they are going - on

> their holidays? the monotonous, dreary call sound

> of wood pigeons, will remind you nevertheless of

> how you head on tackled moronic youths to teach

> them a lesson they will never forget, because your

> distaste and dismay and involvement will go down a

> storm in the country, and don't forget that horses

> do not use a neat litter tray.

> Livestock attracts flies, blue and green bottles,

> blowflies big as a baby's fist, fruit attracts

> wasps aplenty, horseflies and mosquitos/midges

> abound.

>

> As your sensibilities are so heightened, you are

> soft hearted and further distressed yourself by

> attempting to call out callow youths who were

> having fun seeing helpless fluttering pigeons

> vermin or not, in death throes, it's probably

> better if you hurry away, and ignore beggars for

> the same reason and seriously consider how life in

> the country is no idyll believe me, for someone of

> your sensitivity, protect yourself better, as you

> will not become immune, neither will you be able

> to affect changes.

Good grief.