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Goodbye to Foxhunting
BillieTheBot
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So, now that foxhunting is officially illegal, what's your verdict?
EDIT: Wanted to add a poll to this thread, but couldn't do so for some reason. :eek2:
EDIT: Wanted to add a poll to this thread, but couldn't do so for some reason. :eek2:
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All my mates are going to carry on regardless.
It's going to be very difficult to police.
I'm sick of the whole thing, and I'm disgusted that parliament have spent so much time and money discussing/debating the whole thing when there are far more important things to sort out first.
We've got so much more that we need to be doing, police wise but now we're stuck with this fox hunting shit.
If the government expects these hunts to be policed it can expect a rise in crime to follow.
That's right simple boy - because it is all about the 'Toffs' isn't it :Rolleyes:
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I'd much prefer police time to be spent on crimes where the victims are real people. It's only a smelly bastard fox.
Whose they?
Killing animals just for sport is another.
I'm pro the former, but anti the latter.
Anyway, all done now, I think overall it's a good think - if only because it pleases people. I am a naturalist and know that fox populations are kept artificially high for hunting - all other predators in the UK that cause a problem (bear, wolf) have been exterminated. Badger doesn't really do any harm, so you know. Let people get on with their illegal fox hunts because for the moment it makes them feel powerful. Thing about making it illegal is not to instantly stop foxhunting - it will continue for years - but to reduce the willingness of people to go. Gradually now people will slowly stop to fox hunt until at last there are only a few left and the police can just arrest them all or something.
But completely agree with you whowhere, foxhunting is taken out of proportion. Maybe have one or two police officers watching a hunt and gathering evidence, but no way should whole squads turn up and arresting / otherwise turning people away who are just out for a good ride. With a fox hunt only a few people actually hunt, most of the people there just turn up with their horse to follow the hunt.
IE banging up sick old ladies for a bit of puff.....
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Besides which, cops have been going to hunts for ages .... to keep the Hunt Sabs in check.
Yes or no?
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Moronic hobby for a moronic people......
No doubt quite a few people will flaunt the law tomorrow. It'd just be an initial response. Illegal hunts will gradually die down. Don't expect to see any left in 3 or 4 years time.
Besides, now saboteurs can legally perform citizen's arrests on the hunters if they witness a crime being committed. Or simply videotape them in the act and report them to the authorities.
In exactly the same spirit as yours.
Bring back cock fighting, bear baiting and pigeon stomping what!!!!
Pass the gin servant.....
That's not prejudice at all, but you assumed that everyone associated with foxhunting is a 'toff', which is prejudice, and no matter what grounding in fact it has, is not related to the subject at hand and will only make the debate even more heated.
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'Come on the fox!'
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Have you ever seen how hunt sabs behave? They should be replacing the foxes with the sabs.
This will not die down Aladdin, a lot of people I know will just carry on regardless as I said before, and I really can't see how anything's going to stop them.
in scotland since the ban fox hunting as a pest control measure ie they have to shoot the foxes dead after chasing them, means that its a less painful death than often running and bleeding to death
get my drift, ie at the moment its just a cruel sport
One of my best mates use to be a sab. He's witnessed, amongst other things, women being punched, kicked and beaten, people being threatened with guns and have hounds set on them.
Very nice bunch, hunting folk can be...
As for the people who will carry on, they will be stop when they get arrested and charged, warned not to do it again, and then re-arrested and given a custodial sentence.
Won't be able to hunt much from inside a cell- not foxes anyway.
People I know have had death threats, damage to their property.
I've also known hounds to be poisoned by sabs - where's the sense in that?
I just thinks it's stupid. Here we have a law which does no favours for the fox but most of you can't see that. Some of you can be as blind as luke.
You are fooling yourself if you thnk it's going to be easy to catch them.
There are worse ways.
Another point that tends to be overlooked is that the threat and damaged caused by foxes has always been grossly exaggerated by farmers and the hunting lobby.
There won't be need for that much control. And when there is, there are other ways of dealing with them other than chasing them for hours and ripping them to pieces while still alive.