Fox bites woman in "revenge attack"!

[Malcolm Banks]

Originally Posted by vole-woman

We've had similar trouble with our garden gnome. Evil fox attacks small elderly man shocker!!! Only, when I stayed by the window to watch, turned out the gnome was being upended by pigeons.

Mine was definately foxes, they even marked the carcase for later return
M.

[vole-woman]

Gnoming pigeons.

[healfdan]

Meanwhile the unfortunate lady hunt follower is undergoing painful skin grafts or worse, depending on which newspaper you read and wishing to God she had never jokingly referred to the incident as a 'revenge attack.' Brings back memories of when I was bitten by a field vole, spent six hours in A&E, skin graft not recommended, press didn't want know, occasionally suffer flash backs, what the hell, life goes on.

[Doggle Avaddit]

Originally Posted by healfdan

Meanwhile the unfortunate lady hunt follower is undergoing painful skin grafts or worse, depending on which newspaper you read and wishing to God she had never jokingly referred to the incident as a 'revenge attack.' Brings back memories of when I was bitten by a field vole, spent six hours in A&E, skin graft not recommended, press didn't want know, occasionally suffer flash backs, what the hell, life goes on.

I can't help thinking that, if the reports are to be believed, she came across a fox in the middle of the road, she bibbed her horn, she tried to shoo it away, and finally made some attempt to comfort/examine/physically get it off the road, which is when she was bitten.

And if that was indeed the case, then I think a large percentage of WAB members would have done pretty much the same thing.


So, I conclude that inside every WAB member, is a Simpleton struggling to get out.

[Farplace]

perhaps.... but I doubt that any of us would call it a revenge attack.......

[Doggle Avaddit]

Originally Posted by Farplace

perhaps.... but I doubt that any of us would call it a revenge attack.......

Well we don't know what the woman said, or the context it was said in, only what the media says she said, inserted into their own context.

So its all supposition anyway.

[STYRBJORN]

Originally Posted by Doggle Avaddit

I can't help thinking that, if the reports are to be believed, she came across a fox in the middle of the road, she bibbed her horn, she tried to shoo it away, and finally made some attempt to comfort/examine/physically get it off the road, which is when she was bitten.

And if that was indeed the case, then I think a large percentage of WAB members would have done pretty much the same thing.


So, I conclude that

is a Simpleton struggling to get out.

Err, no. Not "every". If you have clipped the beast, the kindest option is to back up and run it over. That way it dies quickly. Come over all oochy-coochy-coo and all you achieve is a prolonged and painful death for the critter.

[Doggle Avaddit]

Originally Posted by STYRBJORN

Err, no. Not "every". If you have clipped the beast, the kindest option is to back up and run it over. That way it dies quickly. Come over all oochy-coochy-coo and all you achieve is a prolonged and painful death for the critter.

Hmm, if I came across an injured fox that was capable of biting my arm off, I would probably not feel confident about running it over and killing it efficiently in my Ford Focus. In fact I'm pretty certain I wouldn't attempt it as it would likely make things a whole lot worse.

Oh well, another Simpleton on the list.

[Jim Ford]

Originally Posted by STYRBJORN

I will try to find a video I have seen of Kazakh tribesmen hunting wolves with eagles.

The wolves won't be anywhere near the size of the stuffed wolf I saw the other day in the N.H. museum in Tring. It was huge - about the size of an Irish Wolfhound, but with a head about 250mm across!

Jim

[The Woodman]

Originally Posted by Doggle Avaddit

Hmm, if I came across an injured fox that was capable of biting my arm off, I would probably not feel confident about running it over and killing it efficiently in my Ford Focus.

Trade it in for a VW