No, because you cannot take it upon yourself to be the magpie vigilante for the county. Magpies in a garden may predate, may, outside the garden boundaries and I would like to see you make a case that shooting a magpie was for the general welfare of birds not those nesting in your garden.Actually it is.
No, because you cannot take it upon yourself to be the magpie vigilante for the county. Magpies in a garden may predate, may, outside the garden boundaries and I would like to see you make a case that shooting a magpie was for the general welfare of birds not those nesting in your garden.
Actually, within the letter of the law, you can. As the defence of the former would obviously lead to the defence of the latter.
Oh sure, Oh Masked Avenger.
Never shot a magpie in my life. Just confirming that it is a firm defence and within the law to shoot magpies on private property given the permission of the landowner.
Still need a good reason to do so, annoyance and hate are not enough.
Just a random........anyone else heard the tale of the fabled Noah's Ark? Allegedly if such a person existed and had such a ship.....the magpie was the bird that never went onboard......so how did they survive the foty days n neets?
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i too in my time have shot just about everything thats either walked, run or crawled at some point in its life...
It was a flood. Plenty of other stuff floating. And they can fly. Although, if indeed such a ship existed and the animals went in two by two. The genetic diversification would have seen all species unsustainable in the future.
Theres an interesting philosophical debate right there... Are we not part of nature?
.a species that is no longer regulated by nature, that lives apart in artificially created enviroments, can't really be called 'part of nature'.
Nature isn't the way it's supposed to be in Western Europe due to humans, so it's up to humans to try and regulate it a bit.
Sounded better & more credible when clint Eastwood said it
Interesting indeed...............Some people are & others ain't......we in the western world, ain't. We have cut ourselves off from nature so can't really be called part of it. ......If crops fail due to the vagaries of the weather, we have sufficient stocks of (or import) food to see us through so no one will starve, if nature throws a disease our way we'll treat it with medicine, we live in houses so are protected from the elements, nature no longer controls our population growth & babies or the elderly that would otherwise die in natural circumstances, live, .......................................a species that is no longer regulated by nature, that lives apart from it, protected in artificially created enviroments, can't really be called 'part of nature'......that doesn't mean though at some point or another in the future, mankind won't be at the mercy of nature, You can only remove so many bricks before your house comes tumbling down on top of you.
Actually a much bigger boat than most think ... only the "unclean" animals went in 2 x 2 the others went in in small flocks.... if ya gunna get Biblical... read the book first
Sure we have made mistakes, but that doesnt mean we will continue to make them. We are a species capable of learning a huge amount of things. We make mistakes, we learn from them, we adjust and continue.
If we learnt from our mistakes then we wouldn't even be discussing this.............unfortunately, evidence proves that not only are we continuing to make our previous errors but we also inventing new ones on a regular basis.