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last night, on the way home, at the top of Greenwich Park
there was an injured grey sqirrel writhing on the road. I
ended up slowing and cycling around it which was what other
traffic was doing. Apart from wondering who was driving in a
park at a junction, in such a way as to run over a sqirrel
(I know they tend towards kamikaze nuttiness but even so) I
didin't do anything for which I feel rather guilty. I think
I should have contacted the park wardens/parks police office
(which is just by there) in the hope that they might have
the means to humanely dispatch the unhappy creature.
What would anyone else have done
best wishes james
james wrote:
> What would anyone else have done
Exactly what you did.
james wrote:
> last night, on the way home, at the top of Greenwich Park
> there was an injured grey sqirrel writhing on the road. I
> ended up slowing and cycling around [...] What would
> anyone else have done
Prolly stopped and killed it, being the kindest thing to do.
Plus it might have been one of the Evil Squirrels from the
Nut Mines.
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> last night, on the way home, at the top of Greenwich Park
> there was an injured grey sqirrel writhing on the road.
> What would anyone else have done
Killed it.
james wrote:
>
> last night, on the way home, at the top of Greenwich Park
> there was an injured grey sqirrel writhing on the road. I
> ended up slowing and cycling around it which was what
> other traffic was doing.
> What would anyone else have done
Probably the same, and then would have hoped someone would
have flattenned it.
I have a long-lasing memory of finding a rabbit with
mixamatosis (sp) by the road when I was cycling on my first
round Britain ride as a young lad. While I was looking at
it a motorist pulled up and said it should be killed. He
placed it under his rear wheel, and the memory I still have
- and still shiver at - is the sound of crunching bones as
he reversed.
John B
"Simonb" <sbennett@YOUAREALLHEATHENSwiderworld.co.uk> wrote in message
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> james wrote:
>
> > What would anyone else have done
>
> Exactly what you did.
Grey squirrels are vermin.
Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> Plus it might have been one of the Evil Squirrels from the
> Nut Mines.
Bury the body or burn it? Or hang it high as a lesson
to others?
On 11 Jun 2004 10:39:52 GMT, Mark Thompson
<pleasegivegenerously@warmmail.com> wrote:
>> last night, on the way home, at the top of Greenwich Park
>> there was an injured grey sqirrel writhing on the road.
>
>> What would anyone else have done
>
> Killed it.
Last week a meadow pipit flew into our conservatory through
an open door and attempted to fly out through a closed
window. While it was a bit dazed it tried to fly out again,
missing the door once again. It fell on its back and went
into spasm. 20 minutes later after being put on an outside
table it had recovered sufficiently to fly off to cover and
within the hour it was feeding in the garden again.
The last time I came off my bike I writhed around for a bit,
luckily someone checked if I was likely to recover before
deciding not to stamp on my head.
Colin
Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> Prolly stopped and killed it, being the kindest thing to
> do. Plus it might have been one of the Evil Squirrels from
> the Nut Mines.
Yay! Oddly enough, the Chief Evil SCIENCE Squirrel was here
yesterday, so if James' injured squirrel was a touch on the
portly side, swearing in 'melican and answering to the name
of "Craig Lathrop"...
It appears that I am not to be made redundant after all, but
rather to receive a New Job with More Money and all the Womp
Rats I can eat. AND I get to trouser the fat bribe they gave
me to stay an extra three months. Yay!
<ob_bicycle> That NoCom is starting to look like a good
thing on which to waste^h^h^h^h^h spend a Lot of Money
</ob_bicycle>
This does not alter the fakts, however. Squirrels are EVIL,
kids. Just say no.
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:25:25 GMT, elyob <newsprofile@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Simonb" <sbennett@YOUAREALLHEATHENSwiderworld.co.uk>
> wrote in message
> news:40c98426$0$58820$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk...
>> james wrote:
>>
>> > What would anyone else have done
>>
>> Exactly what you did.
>
> Grey squirrels are vermin.
Odd term. Vermin describes animals that are destructive to
crops, game birds and domestic animals, ie animals that
farmers and gamekeepers don't like. Not sure the grey
squirrel qualifies.
Colin
Colin Blackburn wrote:
> The last time I came off my bike I writhed around for a
> bit, luckily someone checked if I was likely to recover
> before deciding not to stamp on my head.
Is this standard practice for paramedics these days? Trample
the patient to death if unlikely to recover?
I'll have to be more careful out there.
Dave Larrington wrote:
> It appears that I am not to be made redundant after all,
> but rather to receive a New Job with More Money and all
> the Womp Rats I can eat.
That sounds like the result of some singluarly productive
Dialog to me...
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Colin Blackburn wrote:
> The last time I came off my bike I writhed around for a
> bit, luckily someone checked if I was likely to recover
> before deciding not to stamp on my head.
Yebbut, if it had been Fat Eric or the Swamp Monster then
stamping on the head would have been the Right Thing, just
as with a tree rat.
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Colin Blackburn wrote:
> Odd term. Vermin describes animals that are destructive to
> crops, game birds and domestic animals, ie animals that
> farmers and gamekeepers don't like. Not sure the grey
> squirrel qualifies.
KILL 'EM ALL!
Just to be on the safe side.
Colin Blackburn wrote:
> Odd term. Vermin describes animals that are destructive to
> crops, game birds and domestic animals, ie animals that
> farmers and gamekeepers don't like. Not sure the grey
> squirrel qualifies.
A pal of mine is a Parkie, and she regularly distresses the
more sensitive kids on school visits by describing grey
squirrels along the lines of "rat with good PR".
While visiting another pal who was working as a ranger in
the Grand Canyon, we were taking a stroll along the rim and
came across a couple of touroids feeding the squirrels next
to a "please do not feed the squirrels" sign. Dave (not in
uniform) asked them to desist, they said something about
them being so cute and carried on. Dave tries #2 gambit: "Do
you know that the squirrels in this park carry bubonic
plague?" (they do, fact fans!). That seemed to have more
effect, Exit touroids stage left.
Pete.
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Simonb wrote:
> Is this standard practice for paramedics these days?
> Trample the patient to death if unlikely to recover?
I believe so. The evidence garnered from watching "Casualty"
suggests that it is directed by Quentin Tarantino ;-)
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:40:29 +0100, Colin Blackburn
<colin.blackburn@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:25:25 GMT, elyob
> <newsprofile@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Simonb" <sbennett@YOUAREALLHEATHENSwiderworld.co.uk>
>> wrote in message
>> news:40c98426$0$58820$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk...
>>> james wrote:
>>>
>>> > What would anyone else have done
>>>
>>> Exactly what you did.
>>
>> Grey squirrels are vermin.
>
> Odd term. Vermin describes animals that are destructive to
> crops, game birds and domestic animals, ie animals that
> farmers and gamekeepers don't like. Not sure the grey
> squirrel qualifies.
>
> Colin
>
Squirrels ate my figs, my walnuts, my sweetcorn - I
hate them.
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Peter Clinch wrote:
> A pal of mine is a Parkie, and she regularly distresses
> the more sensitive kids on school visits by describing
> grey squirrels along the lines of "rat with good PR".
Grey squirrels have been known as "tree rats" by Larringtons
since Time Immemorial.
"And maybe we'll do In a squirrel or two, while we're
poisoning pigeons in the park." - Tom Lehrer
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JohnB <nospam@here.com> wrote in news:40C9912E.9A62223B@here.com:
> james wrote:
>>
>> last night, on the way home, at the top of Greenwich Park
>> there was an injured grey sqirrel writhing on the road. I
>> ended up slowing and cycling around it which was what
>> other traffic was doing.
>
>> What would anyone else have done
Stamped on its head, but not enjoyed doing it. Grey
squirrels are an introduced species (from America) and
they are doing a very succesful job of ousting our native
red squirrels as they are bigger and more agressive. I
share some of the other posters' sentiments, the only good
grey squirrel is a dead grey squirrel (when it's in the UK
at least).
> I have a long-lasing memory of finding a rabbit with
> mixamatosis (sp) by the road when I was cycling on my
> first round Britain ride as a young lad. While I was
> looking at it a motorist pulled up and said it should be
> killed. He placed it under his rear wheel, and the memory
> I still have - and still shiver at - is the sound of
> crunching bones as he reversed.
I came across one in the Pentlands a few years back and was
about to stamp on it when my wife stopped me. It was only a
defenceless rabbit after all! Despite pointing out that it
was suffering and it was liekly to spread the disease to
other rabbits causing them to suffer, she stood her ground,
or rather walked of in disgust at my idea and made it clear
I'd be in the bad books for months if I did it.
Rabbits are also a non-native species (introduced by the
Normans, or was it the Romans?) so, in my books, are prime
candidates for eradication. For one thing, it has been said
that if it weren't for the large areas of short grass and
numerous holes they left around the Scottish countryside,
then the game of golf would never have been invented. So
they are indirectly responsible for Pringle jumpers, boring
televised competitions and Jimmy Tarbuck et al. Those are
grounds for extermination if ever there were!
Graeme
In article <40C9912E.9A62223B@here.com>,
JohnB <nospam@here.com> writes:
> He placed it under his rear wheel, and the memory I still
> have - and still shiver at - is the sound of crunching
> bones as he reversed.
Nasty. Very nasty.
But compared to germ warfare like mixamatosis, not so nasty
at all. Which reminds me: why has all the meeja gone so
quiet on the 'merkins exempting themselves from the
international treaties regarding inspection of their bio-
warfare labs? Looks like the war of terror has successfully
diverted attention from the real stories.
As for animals (alive) on the road, the last I recollect was
a fox which seem dazed but wasn't - as far as I could tell -
any worse than that. So I just moved it off the road for the
best chance to recover, or for nature to take its course.
--
Nick Kew
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