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Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 5272
Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 4:01 pm Post subject:
I know a farmer that was beaten up by hare coursers. And when my widowed grandmother was alive and living alone in a cottage on the banks of a river. She was threatened because she phoned the police when she heard a gang poisioning salmon. To prove their point they burnt down an empty cottage next to hers as a warning. She had to move into town after that. It broke her spirit.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 4:18 pm Post subject:
A local farmer had a problem with missing stock. Had an idea who it was and knew where he drank. The farmer paid a visit to the pub and after a few pints proclaimed his problem. His solution, to all willing to listen, which involved a shot gun, a coffin size pit and a movable manure heap.

king rat

Joined: 29 Nov 2007
Posts: 79

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 4:18 pm Post subject:
I have just had a look at the forum being advertised on this posters thread and am not surprised to see why poaching is being defended. If this is supposed to in anyway be a tribute to the late, great Jack Hargreaves, he must be turning in his grave. I think I will stick to places like here thank you very much.

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 4:19 pm Post subject:
There was some doubt whether or not poachers were once on a bit of my ground - there was reason for the gate to be open but there was also an orphaned red deer calf on the land that I had to dispatch a week later, so pays your money and takes your choice. About a month ago, I had to put down another red deer, which had two crossbow bolts in its rump. So yes, that I know for a fact.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 4:26 pm Post subject:
In the modern day there the justification for illegal poaching has long since died out when shoots are seen to be throwing game away, or at best giving it away, and even the stuff that gets sold isn't making much unless you put it in a fancy sauce somewhere in the middle of London. That small scale poaching has become as much a sport as any high brow organised shoot.

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 4:31 pm Post subject:
Most farmers would be delighted if someone offered to come along and kill their rabbits and pigeon. In that sense, the poacher who broke the law to feed his family is a thing of the past - you can do the same thing legally now.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 4:33 pm Post subject:

Brownbear wrote:

Most farmers would be delighted if someone offered to come along and kill their rabbits and pigeon. In that sense, the poacher who broke the law to feed his family is a thing of the past - you can do the same thing legally now.

Agree

king rat

Joined: 29 Nov 2007
Posts: 79

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 4:39 pm Post subject:

Brownbear wrote:

And even if they didn't it gives no right to theiving scum to help themselves !!!!! Like I say it is theft pure and simple, usually carried out by them who can't be bothered to get off their arses and do a days work to pay for their families like most decent people.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28239
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 7:53 pm Post subject:

king rat wrote:

Brownbear wrote:

I'm willing and able to imagine a past where the downtrodden and meat deprive peasantry could be supported in the act of poaching on the vast estates of the bloated aristocracy.

But I think currently you'd really have your work cut out to convince me that poaching is not generally a criminal act done for gain and with inherent violence and little care for the countryside.

whitelegg1

Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 409
Location: Woodford Green

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 8:02 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Brownbear wrote:

Agree

Offering and doing are unfortunately not linked

Pete

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 8:07 pm Post subject:
do beetle larvae count?

KILLITnGRILLIT

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 894
Location: Looking at a screen in the front room

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 8:21 pm Post subject:
Absolutely you scoundrel !!!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 9:55 pm Post subject:
oh dear

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 08 10:32 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

oh dear

You might want to edit the previous two posts

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 08 9:44 am Post subject:
This thread will be locked, because without explanation the originator saw fit to delete his opening posts. Thus making the rest of the thread incomprehensible, and also wasting all our time.

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