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.

[NickCantle]

Restores faith in people

[shirl]

What a wonderful and very thoughtful person, I must admit I have never moved one but I always stop to make sure it is actually dead & then report it to my local badger trust - often they send someone out to collect it. I hadn't really thought about linking the dead badger to nearby setts, I will now though.

Shirl

[Amoeba]

"to prevent any possible badger baiters"

Could you elaborate on this? I didn't understand this part.

[Dogghound]

Badger baiters dig up setts and sett dogs on the badgers not to mention battering them with spades etc. Dead badgers on a road would alert them to badger presence in the area.

[shirl]

I saw a couple of guys with spades & dogs in the countryside a few years ago about 11pm at night - duly reported of course. I could only assume it was badgers they were after.

Shirl