Police are investigating I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!...
Well, it's about time! For crimes against entertainment?
...over concerns non-native wildlife could have escaped into the Welsh countryside during bushtucker trials, the Guardian can reveal.
Oh...
Authorities are investigating ITV after complaints by the TV presenter and naturalist Iolo Williams, who was appalled after watching the show last week and seeing thousands of cockroaches being poured over contestants.
Williams said: “Cockroaches are the ultimate survivors, and if they survive in north Wales and escape into the wild there, what effect are they going to have? I don’t know, nobody knows … I just find it incredible that they’re allowed to do this, and I’m not being a killjoy here. Why not use fish guts, or offal?”
I have to say, if the Welsh countryside can be 'threatened by cockroaches', it's doomed...
Natural Resources Wales, which gives out licences for the release of species, did not receive an application from ITV to release non-native species. If these species have been released without a licence it would be a breach of the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
A spokesperson for north Wales police said: “The matter is being investigated by officers from our rural crime team.”
I would love to see this in one of those fly-on-the-wall police documentaries in the future...
I wondered that too.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the two giant Geordie cockroaches, known as Ant and Dec ...
"Cockroaches are the ultimate survivors"
ReplyDeleteI remember reading that they are one of a handful of creatures likely to survive a nuclear Armageddon! And (apparently) if you cut off their heads they will continue to go about their daily business until dying of starvation...
Surely there must be some action that can be taken to save these poor innocent cockroaches from having to live in Wales?
ReplyDeletePerhaps they could be moved to a nice disused Army Transit Camp in South Wales? They will have to lower their standards considerably to share accommodation with other asylum seekers but with effort and support, the Cockroaches will eventually get used to them...
This is not a joke looking for a punchline.*
ReplyDeleteHow do you tell a Welsh cockroach from a foreign cockroach?
*However, is someone has a good answer.....
Good job they didn't release them 2 weeks ago, during the Welsh 'Firebreak'. They'd have hit Ant and Dec with thousands of £100 fines, one for each of the little rascals.
ReplyDeleteAndy.
@ Doonhamer
ReplyDeleteWere it not for a tapestry of ovine droppings adhering to the Welsh crotch, it would be impossible to distinguish it from other cockroaches.
"And (apparently) if you cut off their heads they will continue to go about their daily business until dying of starvation..."
ReplyDeleteA bit like politicians then?
"Good job they didn't release them 2 weeks ago, during the Welsh 'Firebreak'. They'd have hit Ant and Dec with thousands of £100 fines, one for each of the little rascals."
LOL!