A "vicious" fox trapped eight people inside a sports club for three hours as it stalked them from the car park.
The animal appeared as people were preparing to leave Alconbury Sports and Social Club, Cambridgeshire. Panic
reigned, with a woman being bitten, a man falling off his bicycle as he
was chased and a pest controller being pursued back to his car. Club chairman Bruce Staines, who was chased around the car park, said he had "never seen anything like it". Mr Staines admitted he "tweaked his groin" trying to get away from the marauding animal and back to the safety of the club. "None of us could get out. When we tried to use a side door, the fox heard and came haring round there."
'Wasn't afraid'
A woman who tried to distract the fox with food sustained a bite to her hand. A man who tried to outpace the creature on his bicycle was chased into a field and fell off, losing his glasses in the process. "He had to fend the fox off with his bicycle," Mr Staines said.
The fox trapped people inside the club for about three hours, stalking them from the car park
Club members ended up
barricaded inside the building, watching the fox on the CCTV system as
it stalked outside, at about 22:00 BST on Saturday. The local pest controller was called, but when he tried to approach the animal it "went for him" and chased him back to his car. The fox was eventually caught and destroyed.
The pest controller's view
Graeme Brown, a pest controller for 18 years, was called in to help those trapped inside the club. "The fox started circling my car as soon as I arrived," he said. He
tried to move it on by stamping his feet, shouting and waving his arms
but when it refused to move he was "forced to beat a retreat". He said he had "never come across such a forward and aggressive fox as this one". "People who don't know about these animals should not approach them and never feed them. You're asking to be bitten. "Leaving this fox was not an option. I have no doubt about that," he said. "It was active in the area of a play park and I would not be prepared to put children at risk." "Foxes
can look very sweet, but as a family-orientated club we had real
concerns about this rather vicious animal. We have hundreds of children
playing in our leagues here," Mr Staines said. He said the pest
controller suggested the fox may have been an urban animal, which
somehow found itself in the middle of the countryside. "That might be why it wasn't at all afraid of humans." Neither the Wildlife Trust nor RSPCA was prepared to comment on the behaviour of the fox as their staff had not seen the animal.
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I was sorry to read of the sad outcome of a dispute between an elderly pensioner (Pauline Spoor of Hattersley, Greater Manchester) and the RSPCA over her old frail dog Dexter (18).
Dexter was suffering from severe arthritis and conjunctivitis, and in the opinion of the professionals needed to be put down to be out of his misery. Mrs Spoor, being human, couldn't bear to have her companion put down.
In May the RSPCA alerted the polcie to the dog's plight, and they duly broke into Mrs Spoor's home and placed Dexter with the RSPCA who put him down.
Mrs Spoor was then taken to court and convicted of animal cruelty. She was sentenced to wear an electronic tag on her ankle, and given a 3 month curfew preventing her from leaving her home at night.
Why would a frail elderly woman living in Manchester want to leave her home at night?
It seems to me that the above sentence is disproportionate to the circumstances. Sadly, this case has been ignored as certain publicity seeking politicians seem more concerned with trying to lessen the sentences handed out to morons who try to start riots using Faecesbook.
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A question for all my loyal readers out there in cyber space.
What do you think of pink pussies?
Personally I am not a huge fan of them myself, but apparently some people are.
I ask because I was reading the story of "Oi! Kitty", a white cat dyed pink (using safe non toxic food colouring) by its owner.
Oi! Kitty was found by some bloke coming back from the pub recently, and handed into the RSPCA.
The owner, having seen the publicity, was relieved that her missing pink pussy had been spotted and asked for it to be returned.
The RSPCA have duly done so.
However, they could not resist being a tad "Nannying", they popped round to give some "advice" as to how to treat pussies (even though no crime, harm, or mistreatment had been done to Oi! Kitty).
Now I am a great lover of pussies and other wee beasties, and fully support the work that the RSPCA does (indeed our own little pussy "Rosie" was adopted from an RSPCA cat shelter). However, given that no harm was done to Oi! Kitty (aside from it being hugely embarrassed, when socialising with its cat chums, at being dyed pink), was a "Nannytype" lecture really needed?
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//A rare South American bird which had been living happily in the English countryside has died after the RSPCA made a bungled attempt to rescue it./ - /We recaptured it in a very controlled way and caused it the minimum amount of distress//
(Apart, that is, for the fact that it died)
The printed newspaper item includes the following verbal extrusion by ‘an RSPCA spokesman’ - all in “Quotation marks”
“We do not know what the cause of death was and we will not be holding a post mortem It could have been suffering from some sort of illness before it was rescued by us. We certainly followed all our procedures by the book”
Nanny doing a ‘Risk Assessment’ and getting it wrong? [Tick]
Nanny declining to find out what really happened? [Tick]
Nanny happy that ‘the rules’ were followed? [Tick]
RSPCA apparently believes that animals weighing 90lb (40kg)are a danger to traffic if loose on the road.
I hope they send teams to the New Forest, Wales, and the Lake District to 'cull' the ponies, sheep and cattle."
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Beware the state Gestapo, who are being given extra powers by Nanny.
Nanny is to extend the power to issue on-the-spot fines to "authority" figures, other than the police.
Some of you may be wondering who, or what, an "authority" figure is. Allow me to enlighten you; authority figures (according to Nanny) include the following, teachers, council workers and even RSPCA inspectors.
In short anyone in some form of uniform, or with aspirations of wearing some form of uniform!
These "Little Hitlers" would be given the same right as police officers to mete out summary justice for offences including; vandalism, antisocial behaviour and theft.
The proposal was debated a few weeks ago in the Lords.
At the moment penalty notices are dispensed by police officers, community support officers and neighbourhood wardens (what the hell is a neighbourhood warden?).
Nanny's chums in the Home Office are preparing a much longer list of the types of people, who would then be "accredited" by their local chief constable to issue the notices.
Home Office sources say the list could include teachers, who need to deal with unruly pupils, housing officials who need to punish troublesome tenants and RSPCA inspectors.
Fixed-penalty notices do not count as a criminal record, but police forces would keep a register of those issued with them.
Nanny really doesn't have much of a sense of humour, as David Clutterbuck a councillor on Bournemouth Council found to his cost the other week.
The hoohah all started when a spoof email was forwarded to members of the council. The email noted that if Noah tried to build an ark now he would have to overcome planning rules, building regulations, environmental impact studies, fire and safety regulations and the RSPCA over animal welfare.
Mr Clutterbuck then added the following tag line, and duly pressed "reply all":
"I imagine now it would be illegal to only have animals of the opposite sex!"
I think it reasonably obvious to even the most blinkered, that the email was a joke and that the tag line added by Mr Clutterbuck was in the spirit of the email.
Unfortunately Nanny's chums in the Liberal Democrats lack a sense of humour, Liberal Democrat councillor Michael Carlile said:
"The comment, even in fun, is at best childish
and at worst shows that certain local Conservatives are locked into the distant past.
I urge, if we are truly going to embrace diversity,
all members should have compulsory diversity training.
I would urge those enlightened Conservative councillors,
and I know there are some,
to challenge Councillor Clutterbuck on his attitudes to minority communities."
What a twat!
Mr Clutterbuck, a councillor for 19 years, said:
"One of the councillors who's made the complaint
has only been on the council three years.
I've said before, I've more experience of life,
of business in my little fingertips
than the people who are making complaints."
Mr Clutterbuck's own party then got in on the act and, as a consequence, Mr Clutterbuck has resigned his whip (so to speak) and will stand as an independent in the next election.
