Good press/bad press?

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Its a sad state of affairs but we all know how many people who are out in the countryside are ignorant of rural life and therefore we should try and limit their opportunities to post things like this.

I always try and dispose of dead foxes, crows etc out of sight of foothpaths etc.

I saw a post recently on Facebook where someone in Devon was concerned for an escaped pet rabbit and wondered whose it was....from the pic it was clear it was a wild rabbit ... if people cant tell the difference then what hope do we have.
 
We used to hang highwaymen from Gibbets on the major roads and from hilltops. Indeed hills like Combe Gibbet above Inkpen in Berkshire still have a Gibbet on the top. In Edinburgh there is plaque on the pavement marking where the previously hung highway men.

We don’t do public executions any more. And the days of lines of crows, foxes and moles all strung along fence lines are passed as well. In the past many keepers where paid on a piece rate, and they had to show evidence of their work. Given that the fastest means of communication was walking have a prominent place for the laird or factor to see your work was an effective means of communication. Nowadays it’s not needed.

If farmers, keepers etc want to really demonstrate littering in the countryside, don't just clear the litter, pick it up and put it prominent display. Often litter contains addresses - use this to return lost property to the rightful owner, as you are concerned that they have misplaced their property.
 
@Heym SR20 , I did this recently with 3 blag bags, some broken plant pots and the broken wooden frame of a single bed.
The lady of the house was at home and not best pleased when I returned their rubbish,along with the letter addressed to them, hence me knowing where to return it to.
Love to have heard the conversation she had with her husband upon his return home!
Haven't heard anything since so presumably won't be any recurring dumping. Obviously couldn't be bothered to go to the tip, about 2 miles from the village, just drove out the village,backed into a gateway and slung his rubbish out🤬
 
Rhodesianjess said:
@Heym SR20 , I did this recently with 3 blag bags, some broken plant pots and the broken wooden frame of a single bed.
The lady of the house was at home and not best pleased when I returned their rubbish,along with the letter addressed to them, hence me knowing where to return it to.
Love to have heard the conversation she had with her husband upon his return home!
Haven't heard anything since so presumably won't be any recurring dumping. Obviously couldn't be bothered to go to the tip, about 2 miles from the village, just drove out the village,backed into a gateway and slung his rubbish out🤬
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Good on you for doing this...absolute scumbags 👍
 
The days of vermin gibbets are over, I think. They seem to appeal more to the Neanderthal types.
I dispose of anything in the deepest ditch or biggest bramble patch I can find.
It's funny, though, I bet all the folks who complained about the dead moles on the fence drive past hundreds of dead critters along the side of the roadway and don't ever bat an eyelid.
That's if they even notice.
 
Seems a waste really the amount of dead stuff I have discarded in bramble patches and other dense areas
These could of all been posted to Mike1979 house
if only he would let me have his address
 
bumpy22 said:
Seems a waste really the amount of dead stuff I have discarded in bramble patches and other dense areas
These could of all been posted to Mike1979 house
if only he would let me have his address
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Cheers buddy. We talked about this when the Asbo was issued ...lets not talk about this in public :lol: :lol: 👍
 
Rhodesianjess said:
@Heym SR20 , I did this recently with 3 blag bags, some broken plant pots and the broken wooden frame of a single bed.
The lady of the house was at home and not best pleased when I returned their rubbish,along with the letter addressed to them, hence me knowing where to return it to.
Love to have heard the conversation she had with her husband upon his return home!
Haven't heard anything since so presumably won't be any recurring dumping. Obviously couldn't be bothered to go to the tip, about 2 miles from the village, just drove out the village,backed into a gateway and slung his rubbish out🤬
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Can’t claim ownership of the idea. My first job on leaving school was on a farm close to Oxford - late 1980’s. We had lots of trouble with fly tipping. One day the boss instructed to hook the riddling waste trailer to the big Tractor - a big old Ford 7910 4x4 with big tyres and big weight bar on the front. The riddling trailer was half full of rotten blight potatoes. Quite a bad year thanks to warm but wet summer. It was also a hot day so they hummed somewhat.

I met the boss down at a gateway into one of the fields. We loaded several bags of rubbish from a pub on the outskirts of town.

I followed the boss down to the pub carpark where I practiced my reversing through the narrow gateway and tipped the trailer with all its contents into the carpark pretty much blocking the entrance.

Police arrived on the seen, landlord was going ballistic. Police clocked my boss, “thank you sir for returning lost property and I see you added a tonne of spuds, very generous of you sir. That student of yours does need to practice his reversing a bit”, “bloody students muttered the boss - they never listen to my instruction” he chuckled in response.

And we were on our way.
 
Heym SR20 said:
We used to hang highwaymen from Gibbets on the major roads and from hilltops. Indeed hills like Combe Gibbet above Inkpen in Berkshire still have a Gibbet on the top. In Edinburgh there is plaque on the pavement marking where the previously hung highway men.

We don’t do public executions any more. And the days of lines of crows, foxes and moles all strung along fence lines are passed as well. In the past many keepers where paid on a piece rate, and they had to show evidence of their work. Given that the fastest means of communication was walking have a prominent place for the laird or factor to see your work was an effective means of communication. Nowadays it’s not needed.

If farmers, keepers etc want to really demonstrate littering in the countryside, don't just clear the litter, pick it up and put it prominent display. Often litter contains addresses - use this to return lost property to the rightful owner, as you are concerned that they have misplaced their property.
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It’s not like you to be against countryside practices….. how odd 🤔
 
"I think a lot of country folk just want to be left alone to breed their sheep and hang their moles and resent people who come to the countryside with different views," he says.

"Maybe we should just leave people to carry on living the way they have for generations."

Good quote to close the article
 
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