Badgers..... You couldn't make it up!
- Thread starter TheTallGuy
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ollie989898
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This country is going to the dogs. We have lost our way, with progress being secondary to virtually everything.
GeorgeK
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- Location
- Leicestershire
I'm off to glue myself to the road in protest, it's the badgers home now they can't be moved. Council will just have to put up a flyover or something
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
They should improve the whole road while they're at it, the section from Hannington Wick to Hannington is in shocking condition, all falling away at the sides.
- Location
- South West
We had them digging in an ancient burial mound on our ground several years ago and reported as we aren't allowed to damage or alter it but they wouldnt do a thing so now the tops caved in.
GeorgeK
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- Location
- Leicestershire
When it's farmers lives they destroy we're the bad guys for wanting to control them, but any that inconvenience Joe Public, well that's a different matter - turf them out!
PDE1
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- Location
- East Sussex
There’s one lane on Romney marsh that’s been permanently closed because of Badgers
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
A minor road but a key one leading to several farms from a main road just outside of Honiton was closed for at least 12 months due to Badgers a couple of years ago so the above in the OP is of no surprise!
Guiggs
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- Location
- Leicestershire
A hole appeared on the side of the road just outside the village where there was a set, they put cones round it for a few weeks, I was intrigued to see how they planned dealing with it without disturbing Mr Stripey..
Some blokes turned up with a jcb, some traffic lights and Tarmac, a few hours later, road fixed, no dead badgers and no angry Brian May chained to a digger bucket with placards declaring badgers are innocent!
Some blokes turned up with a jcb, some traffic lights and Tarmac, a few hours later, road fixed, no dead badgers and no angry Brian May chained to a digger bucket with placards declaring badgers are innocent!
- Location
- Sedgefield
What would happen if a badger sett “appeared” on a footpath. Would the council close the footpath ?
After all we know that footpaths can never ever ( rarely) get diverted
Therefore must be closed ????
Interesting thought !!??
After all we know that footpaths can never ever ( rarely) get diverted
Therefore must be closed ????
Interesting thought !!??
icanshootwell
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- Location
- Ross-on-wye
I know some builders i could send over to underpin the set and make it nice n safe for the little darlings or maybe turn that part of the road into a round about, they can stay put then, it would be much to simple to catch them and test the dirty fuc#ers.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
This country is becoming a laughing stock...and all because....
- Location
- Leicestershire
I think you may be on to something there!
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
- Location
- Sedgefield
The lady loves Milk Tray ????
- Location
- N.Lincs
You'd have to be 'of a certain age' to get that
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- Location
- Exeter, Devon
I worked with the ecologists to shut that sett down. It can only be done at certain times of the year but is quite straight forward.
organicguy
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- Location
- North East of the south west
You are younger than me, that road used to be single track and has grown to two lanes by filling the pot holes, so the edges have no foundations.
One route on the diversion where this road is closed has had a badger sett under it all my lifetime, regularily has a load of tarmac tipped on it to fill the hole. The village could be cut off!
What a joke. All at the same time as I have just this morning loaded another 10 more TB reactors onto a lorry. Not forgetting the 10 orphans this breakdown has created.
The sett wouldn’t have just appeared anyone with foresight could have got this sorted last year.
The sett wouldn’t have just appeared anyone with foresight could have got this sorted last year.
GeorgeK
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- Location
- Leicestershire
Would be interesting to know the total cost of the project, including the economic costs of closing the road for 3 months. Would it be £100,000 or more? Expensive couple of badgers