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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...

Post by Worthy4England » Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:34 pm

Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:29 pm
jimbo wrote:
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We used to live in Carlisle and still see some of the local news stories. This one caught my eye this morning!
Armed police, for a cow. FFS!
Are you suggesting they should have just battered it with truncheons?

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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:48 pm

Worthy4England wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:34 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:29 pm
jimbo wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:50 am
We used to live in Carlisle and still see some of the local news stories. This one caught my eye this morning!
Armed police, for a cow. FFS!
Are you suggesting they should have just battered it with truncheons?
Or tried talking to it. A handful of medicinal grass in one hand.
That's not a leopard!
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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...

Post by Worthy4England » Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:16 pm

Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:48 pm
Worthy4England wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:34 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:29 pm
jimbo wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:50 am
We used to live in Carlisle and still see some of the local news stories. This one caught my eye this morning!
Armed police, for a cow. FFS!
Are you suggesting they should have just battered it with truncheons?
Or tried talking to it. A handful of medicinal grass in one hand.
No, from experience anything they don't understand gets at least truncheons.

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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:37 pm

Worthy4England wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:16 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:48 pm
Worthy4England wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:34 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:29 pm
jimbo wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:50 am
We used to live in Carlisle and still see some of the local news stories. This one caught my eye this morning!
Armed police, for a cow. FFS!
Are you suggesting they should have just battered it with truncheons?
Or tried talking to it. A handful of medicinal grass in one hand.
No, from experience anything they don't understand gets at least truncheons.
But these aren't just Metropolitan police, They are M&S police...
That's not a leopard!
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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...

Post by Worthy4England » Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:49 pm

Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:37 pm
Worthy4England wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:16 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:48 pm
Worthy4England wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:34 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:29 pm
jimbo wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:50 am
We used to live in Carlisle and still see some of the local news stories. This one caught my eye this morning!
Armed police, for a cow. FFS!
Are you suggesting they should have just battered it with truncheons?
Or tried talking to it. A handful of medicinal grass in one hand.
No, from experience anything they don't understand gets at least truncheons.
But these aren't just Metropolitan police, They are M&S police...
In Carlisle?!?!?!?! They're woodentops.

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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:57 pm

Worthy4England wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:49 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:37 pm
Worthy4England wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:16 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:48 pm
Worthy4England wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:34 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:29 pm
jimbo wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:50 am
We used to live in Carlisle and still see some of the local news stories. This one caught my eye this morning!
Armed police, for a cow. FFS!
Are you suggesting they should have just battered it with truncheons?
Or tried talking to it. A handful of medicinal grass in one hand.
No, from experience anything they don't understand gets at least truncheons.
But these aren't just Metropolitan police, They are M&S police...
In Carlisle?!?!?!?! They're woodentops.
As demonstrated by shooting a cow. Tossers. Obviously from Derrick Bird's herd.
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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...

Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Aug 22, 2019 3:21 pm

Did it have a rucksack on its back though?
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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...

Post by CrazyHorse » Thu Aug 22, 2019 3:40 pm

Prufrock wrote:
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They were on a steak out.
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Aug 22, 2019 4:32 pm

Joking aside, when one of our cows got out the remedy was quite simple. One of us would go out in the Land Rover with the horse box on the back and bring the fecking thing back. :conf:
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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Thu Aug 22, 2019 4:40 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Thu Aug 22, 2019 4:32 pm
Joking aside, when one of our cows got out the remedy was quite simple. One of us would go out in the Land Rover with the horse box on the back and bring the fecking thing back. :conf:
Far too sensible a solution. They probably need the target practice, or the Cumbrian police have outsourced to some Safari Hunting company which has decided sheep are too dangerous to stalk these days...
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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...

Post by Dujon » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:01 am

I have just looked at the source newspaper story. A female cow; who'd have thought it? Armed police shot dead the stray animal also sounds odd, does it not? Given the (rather dubious) reporting seems to indicate that the animal was calm and merely grazing on whatever was available to it.

To kill the poor thing just because it took off for a bit of a walk sounds odd. I know only too well that many cows are slaughtered each day to provide red meat to us humans, but to do the same to what might well have been a good milker makes no sense.

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Post by Gooner Girl » Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:12 am

Blimey, we had an escaped pig in the village next to ours this week and no one batted an eyelid. Let alone called out the police.

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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...

Post by Prufrock » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:42 am

Police are saying it jumped the Tube barriers and ran.
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That it's going to lose its mind
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