How Did This Savage Escape Jail?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29931463
absolutely horrific serial killer.

[chaptazbru2]

Not a savage, but a vile, vile man in my opinion !

[youngmafbog]

Not sure about savage, but clearly an idiot.

Doesn't he own a shovel?

[Gromit]

This one kills more that 1 million - everyday!

http://adidarwinian.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Domestic-Cat-adidarwinian.jpg

[gness]

Defra needs to pull its socks up and make the land owner share the responsibility for the killing of these birds....with a long prison sentence for both.

Instead we give this estate a government grant for promoting wildlife!

[Daffy6543]

Do you have proof of that Gromit?
Even the RSPB website says that domestic cats are not responsible for the decline in bird populations.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/makeahomeforwildlife/advice/gardening/unwantedvisitors/cats/birddeclines.aspx

[Daffy6543]

Cats are not the cleverest of creatures by the way, they tend to take weak, sick or injured birds because it is easier for them. Many cats don't hunt at all.

[ToraToraTora]

The "savage" comment was tongue in cheek but I abhor this sort of slaughter for personal gain. Should have been big Ron's "special" friend in a flowery for a few weeks in my opinion.

[Gromit]

Daffy


// The most recent figures are from the Mammal Society, which estimates that the UK's cats catch up to 275 million prey items a year, of which 55 million are birds. This is the number of prey items that were known to have been caught; we don't know how many more the cats caught, but didn't bring home, or how many escaped but subsequently died. //

http://www.rspb.org.uk/makeahomeforwildlife/advice/gardening/unwantedvisitors/cats/birddeclines.aspx

[mikey4444]

From what I have seen of this in various media today, he is very lucky not to be spending time at Her Majesties Pleasure. This idiot is behaving like lots of gamekeepers have over the years. While that doesn't excuse him, its the attitude of his employers that we should equally castigating today.

The last two paragraphs in the above BBC link speaks volumes ::

"The Stody Estate is now being investigated by the Rural Payments Agency which could withdraw tens of thousands of pounds of subsidies if the estate is found to have been negligent, prosecutor Kevin Eastwick said.

In a statement, the estate distanced itself from the offences saying it had considered Lambert a "valued and trusted member of staff" and that he was "not authorised, trained or asked to kill wildlife".

Weasel words if ever I heard them.

[Gromit]

Just realise my mistake.
I should have wrote more than a million birds a WEEK not day.

[mikey4444]

I'm with TTT here. These birds of prey were poisoned in order to make more money for the Stody Estate in Norfolk. Pheasants are not bred for food...they are artificially reared so that wealthy people can go and shoot them. I don't have a problem with shooting game birds but it needs to be understood why gamekeepers act this way. Its money and greed that is involved, not conservation.

I would now expect the Stody Estate to dismiss this idiot with immediate effect.

[andy-hughes]

One has to question the morality of a man who thinks it is appropriate to kill one section of the bird community, in order to protect other species - so they can be shot by his employers!

To me, the notion of breeding birds to shoot them is utterly repugnant - and this man simply adds to that cycle of abhorrant behaviour by facilitating it further.

This man, and his employers, should all be fined heavily for their disgraceful activities in the name of 'sport'.

[chaptazbru2]

Could not agree more andy !

[andy-hughes]

divebuddy - "If there was no pheasant shooting then within three years there would be no pheasants. They really are rather stupid birds and would fall as easy prey to poachers."

I am unsure of the logic of this.

If pheasants are bred to be shot, then surely they must also be poached - but surely poaching could not wipe out an entire pheasant population>

Deer are poached, but not to anywhere near the levels of extinction.

If it be that pheasants are seen purely as sports targets, then there needs to be some serious education about what actually should be involved in a weekend in the country - and they could start with those high-profle bird butchers - the Royal Family.

[anotheoldgit]

What's the difference to a farmer shooting foxes to keep them away from his chickens, later to be killed so that he can earn money selling his birds to the supermarket so that we can go along and pick up a cheap meal?

[mikey4444]

DB...well and elegantly said !

[andy-hughes]

divebuddy - thank you for your comprehensive answer.

Frankly, if all that is keep pheasants going as a species is being reared to be shot, then I would prefer that nature take its course, even if that means the extinction of the species.

That is the natural way - some species survive, some don't, but to maintain a species artificially to satisfy the blood lust of 'country' folk is barbaric.