Man charged after deer shot in Dagnam Park

[BryanDC]

That's a bird, not an animal.

When is a bird not an animal?

 

[JTO]

When is a bird not an animal?

Go ask the legislators!
When it flies, perhaps?

 

[8x57]

Go ask the legislators!
When it flies, perhaps?

Go tell an ostrich, an emu, a penguin, a rhea or a kiwi that they are not birds.

 

[BryanDC]

Go ask the legislators!
When it flies, perhaps?

I'm confused. Surely all birds are animals, whether they fly or not. Are you saying that the law does not recognise a bird as an animal?

 

[JTO]

I'm confused. Surely all birds are animals, whether they fly or not. Are you saying that the law does not recognise a bird as an animal?

Go ask the legislators!

 

[BryanDC]

Now I am fascinated by this. Can you point me in the direction of the legislation? I would love to know who wrote it.

 

[JTO]

Now I am fascinated by this. Can you point me in the direction of the legislation? I would love to know who wrote it.

As you are in Denmark, it doesn't apply to you perhaps.

 

[aris]

It might be rubbish in Scotland but from my thirteen years experience as a Police Officer in England and from my dealings with the CPS it is not rubbish, I do not lie.

When did you leave the police force? I suspect things may well have changed during Alison Saunders regime. The CPS have nothing to lose by playing poker.

 

[BryanDC]

As you are in Denmark, it doesn't apply to you perhaps.

That's only for the last few years and I still shoot in the UK. We have more than our fair share of rules here also including not bludgeoning animals to death. I was just curious.

 

[JTO]

That's only for the last few years and I still shoot in the UK. We have more than our fair share of rules here also including not bludgeoning animals to death. I was just curious.

Sounds like it is an EU directive.regulation then.

 

[MAH]

That's a bird, not an animal.

The term Animal is a broad term, and includes many species of living things, inc birds, fish... etc.
Whilst the term is often used informally to be akin to mammal, if it's used in a legal document, it will mean the broad definition.
(See Wikipedia - The word "animal" comes from the Latin animalis, meaning having breath, having soul or living being. The biological definition includes all members of the kingdom Animalia. In colloquial usage, as a consequence of anthropocentrism, the term animal is sometimes used nonscientifically to refer only to non-human animals.)
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[BryanDC]

Sounds like it is an EU directive.regulation then.

I don't think it's anything to do with the EU. It's just seen as an immoral way of killing animals unless it is to put them out of their misery. The law exists to stop morons from going out and trying to kill animals with clubs and sticks.

 

[25 Sharps]

That's a bird, not an animal.

Rabbit in a purse net then!

Do you have a link to the legislation you are paraphrasing?

 

[JTO]

Rabbit in a purse net then!

Do you have a link to the legislation you are paraphrasing?

Sorry, I'm clean out of @rse paper.

 

[JTO]

Try Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996, but I think it may have been updated.

 

[novice]

Again, I'm taking this thread further from the OP, but I'm still interested in any link to the legislation referred to.

If it applies to birds also, then how does the practice of knocking magpies/crows caught in larsens fit into the legal framework?

Novice

 

[palmer_mike]

Again, I'm taking this thread further from the OP, but I'm still interested in any link to the legislation referred to.

If it applies to birds also, then how does the practice of knocking magpies/crows caught in larsens fit into the legal framework?

Novice

Don’t think one will be provided because it isn’t against the law.
Feel free anybody to prove me wrong with a link to specific legislation.

 

[Highlandsjohn]

Now I'm going to loose sleep over all these fish I've donged with the priest, could I be done for a salt and batter.
I did say a wee prayer,will that make it all right .john

 

[25 Sharps]

Go ask the legislators!
When it flies, perhaps?

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Sorry, I'm clean out of @rse paper.

Always interesting when people refer to legislation but then can't reference it, I think you are wrong as a priest is a widely accepted method of dispatching small game, in fact a Priest 'small cosh' is detailed as part of the pest controller's kit bag in the BASC's 'THE POLICE OFFICER’S GUIDE TO SHOOTERS'

 

[25 Sharps]

Try Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996, but I think it may have been updated.

We're restricting it to mammals now, rather than animals??