Why the fuss over a dead goose?
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Sorry, here you go..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...illage-goose-shot-dead-in-mystery-attack.html
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...illage-goose-shot-dead-in-mystery-attack.html
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Why the puzzlement? He was their goose, a feature of the village. Villages have an identity and a character and a loyalty to their members. Cats, for example can become part of the village community and I remember the anger by some at a motorist who ran down one of ours. A cat they were used to seeing lazing on the garden wall and to whom the village children would talk on their way home.
This was on Radio 2 earlier and i missed the start. Took me a while to realise they were being serious. £250k offered as reward, and then someone else offered another £25k.
At that point the supposed motive was because the goose guards the mail box. I think gangs were involved myself. Similar style to how Tupac got it.
I think it could escalate, gonna be more than a few people washing bird crap out of their hair by the end of it.
At that point the supposed motive was because the goose guards the mail box. I think gangs were involved myself. Similar style to how Tupac got it.
I think it could escalate, gonna be more than a few people washing bird crap out of their hair by the end of it.
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I listened to that Radio 2 bit with Jeremy Vine, the guy offering the 25,000 reward actually said that if the perpetrators handed themselves into the police station he would drive there himself and hand them the 25,000 pound cheque himself !
find me a gun and a goose !!
all that will happen is a slap on the wrist and 10 hours of community service.......worth it for 25 grand !!
find me a gun and a goose !!
all that will happen is a slap on the wrist and 10 hours of community service.......worth it for 25 grand !!
So he was willing to give the money to the murderers? Really? Is he slightly bonkers perchance?
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I agree, animals are and always have been an important part of community life, certainly hereabouts; I'm not in the least bit puzzled about the boiling anger this would provoke in people and it's too easy to make light of it. Another erosion of one of the little things that go to make a common sense of purpose for folk, which I think is very seriously lacking.
I think I'd have maybe put conditions of some sort on the reward money though, to ensure it went to do some good................Just my tuppence worth.
Of course not but a pet, which this goose was, ... actually if you don't understand there is no point in continuing.
"Animals worth more than people these days." - absolutely Tengu!
I am appalled at how these animal charities rake it in while uk people-charities struggle & children starve all over the planet.
I am appalled at how these animal charities rake it in while uk people-charities struggle & children starve all over the planet.
Generally given as a reason not to contribute at all, along with how dreadful that CEOs of charities are paid so much! I am not aware that compassion has to be either or. But you might like to think that those countries with worst treatment of children also have the worst treatment of animals.
