Really? What the actual fudge!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-47557456
He killed a censored bird. A common P.O.S type bird thats largely considered a nuisance. Maybe the judge would have been more forgiving if the seagull had been on a bicycle.
Fined for killing a seagull! Says it all about our justice system. There'l be fines for fartin next.
He killed a censored bird. A common P.O.S type bird thats largely considered a nuisance. Maybe the judge would have been more forgiving if the seagull had been on a bicycle.
Fined for killing a seagull! Says it all about our justice system. There'l be fines for fartin next.
I'm not a racist! My f'in car is black!
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Payable in all criminal cases upon conviction, regardless of whether there is a victim or not.
Helping seagulls to buy their own chips.
The older I get, the better I was.
I would have just punched the seagull and called it even.
What's he going to do with that?
The older I get, the better I was.
At the point where he'd wounded it anyway it's surely a question of 'putting it out of it's misery' - certainly it doesn't in principle sound much worse than the way that they are humanely disposed of - ie being trapped in a cage for some period of time, then having their neck broken/head chopped off.
We do have some funny double standards where it comes to animal treatment in this country - would he have received the same punishment for having stamped on a rat?
Not sure about rats but it is illegal to kill a seagull.
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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
Final: Justice system 1 - Man 0
Seagull/Justice system 2 - Man 1.
Man looses over two legs. Yay.
We create the problem of waste. Seagulls prosper on our waste. Why is it that the Seagull's/Pigeons are at fault here? We need to sort our bloody censored out and then the feral bird population isn't causing a nuisance.
I don't think it'd have happened if the seagull had been eating out of the bin.
I am struggling to see which of the two protagonists is genetically more evolved.
Fat bloke a) looks like he needs to eat less chips b) eating chips out doors/walking down the street is surely asking for trouble and c) if he is in an area where there are seagulls 'operating', should have considered what he was doing in the first place.
It's hardly the Gull's fault if some fat [email protected] is waving chips around. Was killing an animal over a chip really necessary? I would have dropped a few on the ground and legged it. If I ate chips.
Perhaps he is too fat to leg it and therein lies the problem.
I don't agree with this bloke but I do feel there's good reason to reduce the levels of these birds where there's a problem. Also fining people who feed the birds. There's a guy who buys grain to feed the pigeons and seagulls near West end of morecambe. He's been prosecuted serveral times but he still comes back. These birds learn his habits and there's likely to be a lot of birds waiting for him. He's still at it. BTW I heard from locals who know him who say he has a few mental health issues / beginnings of dementia. But come to think of it he's not been around for some time so perhaps problem sorted.
It's certainly a case of human created problem.
There was a victim here - he had his chips stolen.
Fat man dies of heart attack. [hypothetically]
I thought you were hard as hardened re-enforced nails?
What about Bats? Come on a late evening ride in summer and bats pick up insects in the bike lights. It's magic.
Bats are fine. No beady eyes or beaks.
I'm not sure where my hard man reputation comes from. I'm fond of a sprint, that's all.
I'm soft as shyte. I love everyone except people who don't think.
This just reminded me of something my grandpa told me when i was a kid.
He was stationed in Sudan (I think) after WW1 and they used to have what they referred to as "shite-hawks" which would swoop down and nick the rations off your plate as you were walking away from the servery.
They got rid of them by wrapping lumps of carbide in food. Calcium carbide was used to power lamps, you'd drip water onto it and burn the resulting acetylene gas that was produced from the chemical reaction. The shite-hawks would explode as they were flying away.
The older I get, the better I was.