Hundreds of people have signed a petition to stop a clay pigeon shoot saying it would mean neighbours being forced to put up with the 'sound of a jet engine taking off around 20 times a day'.
Good lord! That must be an error, surely?
Ruth Galloway has launched a petition calling for the Forest of Dean District Council to reject the plans put forward by Tom Shayle, who says Covid-19 restrictions mean people are looking for outdoor hobbies.
She says as well as making life miserable for local residents, the gunshots will disturb wildlife and spook horses, walkers and cyclists using the Newent Loop and other popular country routes,
"The noise of one shotgun being fired is 120-150 decibels, the same as a jet engine taking off at 100ft, this application seeks to have up to 20 of these for 10 hours a day," she says.
Ah, I suspect this is true only for the people standing right next to it (which is why they wear ear defenders) and not for Tamara Chumley-Warner out hacking on her pony 800 yards away...
Within days of being launched 774 people had signed the petition objecting to plans to create an outdoor shooting and archery centre at Mount Oliver’s Meadow, Blackwells End, Hartpury.
I bet you'd get more signing a petition to repair the clock tower...
...objectors also claim increasing use it could have international repercussions, because the field is across the road from the National Perry Pear Centre. The centre is responsible for making sure rare varieties of the fruit once found in abundance across the county do not become extinct.
What are they worried about, stray shot hitting the pears?
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"What are they worried about, stray shot hitting the pears?"
Probably concerned about risk of damage to the hearing of Polish pear pruners pickers and propagators.
The government and the media have managed to impose gun paranoia onto the British at an unbelievable rate. Its hard to believe this was started after WW1 to disarm the people because the establishment feared a revolution having seen what happened in Russia. The British have really are subjects not citizens. When the government no longer trust's the people democracy is truly dead.
Horse riders, funny but I have a number of public footpaths I use on country walks and, without exception, the only ones that are unusable in wet weather, are those that either pass through or adjacent to fields containing horses, Funny in that it is obvious that they have been using their horses to make it impassable through churning up the paths, at least 5 paths so far. I wonder why ? oh yeah they own the countryside don't they ?
And they all become amateur traffic managers when they are riding their precious horses along public roads, one even demanding that I turn my radio down while driving past with my window open and the radio at quite a reasonable volume in my opinion. If their precious horses are so sensetive why do they take them on noisy roads with traffic in the first place ? oh yes for their own selfish pleasure
BU...BUT they would be using GUNS which means that some of the population are armed and we can't have that... it isn't woke.
Besides it might mean they can defend themselves against machete wielding gang bangers and we can't have that.
They ought to be jolly pleased at the pear farm, as the continuous pop of the shotguns will easily scare off the multitude of finches, which can ruin a fruit bud in two bites!
Maybe they haven't thought of that...
"Probably concerned about risk of damage to the hearing of Polish pear pruners pickers and propagators."
Try saying that three times fast!
"The government and the media have managed to impose gun paranoia onto the British at an unbelievable rate."
Haven't they just? When you look at (fairly recent) history, it's astounding.
"They ought to be jolly pleased at the pear farm, as the continuous pop of the shotguns will easily scare off the multitude of finches, which can ruin a fruit bud in two bites!
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Not to mention the plagues of feral parakeets...
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