DEAD BADGER[bad news,good news]

[pegasus]

Last week when driving home on a busy semi-rural road ,[n monsoon like conditions,] i just made out through the windscreen, a car parked up some distance in front with it's hazards light on.As i got nearer i could see a young woman in a T-shirts picking something up from the middle of the road and carrying it and placing it carefully in the undergrowth by the roadside.I stopped [thinking there had been an accident though more probably she had run a dog over.I asked if she was ok and needed any help. She told me she had noticed a dead Badger in the middle of the road and was moving it[and concealing it] to prevent any possible badger baiters knowing there was a Sett nearby.There she was this young woman drenched to the skin ,on a dark and ridiculously wet evening,having consideration and thoughtfulness for the local Badger population.Incidents like this brighten up a sometimes gloomy world.