Saturday, 24 July 2010

"You always hurt, the one you love..."

Brian Butcher (described as a 'frustrated newt expert') was most upset by Natural England's work on neighbouring land to tear down hedgerows and fill in holes. You see, newts may be there. Great Crested newts. A protected species.

Brian knew they might be there because the pond on his land was full of them. So he wrote letters. But they were ignored. For four and a half years, he battled to get the organisation to halt it's work.

So it was time to step up to direct action and hold a press conference chain himself to Natural England's railings fish some newts out of his pond, hit them over the head with a hammer, and post the bodies to the organisation.

...

Wait, what?
The bench was told the package was a "payback" for the public body's perceived lack of action against the work being carried out on Butcher's neighbouring land.
I can see now why he's a frustrated newt expert...


H/T to 'APiLN', the place to go for all your barmy local news requirements.

4 comments:

  1. Dredd, Judge Joseph24 July 2010 at 11:19

    Huh? What an imbecile! Well spotted, Julia...

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  2. I had to read that article three times to parse it.

    Man, there's some weird fuckers out there...

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  3. That'll teach somebody - or perhaps nobody

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  4. "Huh? What an imbecile! "

    Self made 'experts' do tend to get a bit strange, don't they?

    "Man, there's some weird fuckers out there..."

    More, I suspect, than we ever realise!

    "That'll teach somebody - or perhaps nobody"

    I'm convinced the fine will do no good. He'll believe he was right and everyone else wrong. These types always do.

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