Beware Rustlers! You couldn't make this up.

[Frank-the-Wool]

My wife said tonight that we will have to step up security with the sheep being worth so much money and people getting desperate for food, I rather ignored this as I went for a last drink at the Pub tonight and to collect Fish and Chips.

While having my quiet pint and commiserating with a friend who had just lost £3 million worth of business as he organises the sets for pop concerts and the likes of Glastonbury, my phone rang. It was the Police!

They told me they had just apprehended a man dressed in military fatigues who had been prevented from boarding a train at the local station who was spotted with a lamb in his back pack, luckily some local people had prevented him from boarding and called the police. Being at the Pub only a couple hundred yards away I finished my pint and went straight there. By this time there were 4 police cars and 9 officers including an armed response unit, (they thought he might have been armed!!) and found the lamb being cuddled by a WPC.

Luckily we are the only ones lambing nearby and this idiot had taken the half of a pair from one of 3 fields that were about a mile away. Hopefully in the morning I will be able to find its Mother and more importantly hope she will take it back having been taken on an eventful trip.

Having had a long hard day I probably accept that we will now need to employ security at night now to guard the sheep, still if they are worth £200.00 each and with plenty of unemployed people the security may not cost too much!

 

[roscoe erf]

bloody hell the worlds gone bonkers was he going to eat it or something else

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

bloody hell the worlds gone bonkers was he going to eat it or something else

Said he was going to eat it! He was several bricks short of a load though.

 

[MrNoo]

Had a Rural Crime message today re two sheep killed and butchered leaving 4 lambs in Warwickshire last night

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Will you be able to trust your security?

 

[yellowbelly]

Had a Rural Crime message today re two sheep killed and butchered leaving 4 lambs in Warwickshire last night

Hmmm, I can see a problem looming too.

A town full of hungry folks, with no work to go to and nowt on the supermarket shelves, just up the road.

How long before some of 'em lapse back into their rustling ways?

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Will you be able to trust your security?

Probably only employ Vegans!!

 

[Pan mixer]

Hmmm, I can see a problem looming too.

A town full of hungry folks, with no work to go to and nowt on the supermarket shelves, just up the road.

How long before some of 'em lapse back into their rustling ways?

I was wondering the same thing just yesterday when I saw 4 youths hanging around my neighbours sheep field for ages.

 

[Heathland]

Will you be able to trust your security?

Better pat them down for mint sauce!!

 

[NZDan]

Last rustlers I found got run down with the pickup, they don't run so fast on one leg.

 

[JeepJeep]

This is the result of years of Half Breeds breeding 1/4 breeds and so on... resulting in a dwindling gene pool.

I've said Thickness is the future for the last few years.

The Future has just arrived.

 

[Two Tone]

My daughter, who lives in Chesham, rang up tonight to say she cannot buy any meat at all at the moment. She is (was!) a professional caterer well used to buying meat from local butchers and supermarkets. They have all run out!
It’s not tat she wants it for her (former!) job, but for her own family to eat/

My mother then rang to say thanks for her Mother’s Day flowers (I told the shop to deliver them asap in case they got bared from doing so!) to say that my Sister-in-law in Suffolk, also a professional caterer is in almost exactly the same boat!

But for the fact that she has had so many (All!) cancellations, therefore got a lot of meat in stock, they would have had to become enforced vegetarians.


On a slightly different topic, what the hell are all the pubs/breweries going to do with their part used/unopened barrels of beer now?

 

[Wellytrack]

This is the result of years of Half Breeds breeding 1/4 breeds and so on... resulting in a dwindling gene pool.

I've said Thickness is the future for the last few years.

The Future has just arrived.

True that.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I like the fact you finished your pint first before attending the police

 

[yellowbelly]

I like the fact you finished your pint first before attending the police

There's a bloke who's got his priorities right .......


.....or a helluva thirst ?

 

[Werzle]

My wife said tonight that we will have to step up security with the sheep being worth so much money and people getting desperate for food, I rather ignored this as I went for a last drink at the Pub tonight and to collect Fish and Chips.

While having my quiet pint and commiserating with a friend who had just lost £3 million worth of business as he organises the sets for pop concerts and the likes of Glastonbury, my phone rang. It was the Police!

They told me they had just apprehended a man dressed in military fatigues who had been prevented from boarding a train at the local station who was spotted with a lamb in his back pack, luckily some local people had prevented him from boarding and called the police. Being at the Pub only a couple hundred yards away I finished my pint and went straight there. By this time there were 4 police cars and 9 officers including an armed response unit, (they thought he might have been armed!!) and found the lamb being cuddled by a WPC.

Luckily we are the only ones lambing nearby and this idiot had taken the half of a pair from one of 3 fields that were about a mile away. Hopefully in the morning I will be able to find its Mother and more importantly hope she will take it back having been taken on an eventful trip.

Having had a long hard day I probably accept that we will now need to employ security at night now to guard the sheep, still if they are worth £200.00 each and with plenty of unemployed people the security may not cost too much!

How many pints had you consumed?!

 

[ARW]

This is the result of years of Half Breeds breeding 1/4 breeds and so on... resulting in a dwindling gene pool.

I've said Thickness is the future for the last few years.

The Future has just arrived.

The world is getting stupid, all the dopes have nothing better to do than breed, and we look after the slackers which would not survive and breed if we didn’t.
these morons now outnumber us significantly.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

How many pints had you consumed?!

Only had just started the first one. Had to go back and have another after I had sorted it all out though.

 

[Tarw Coch]

My daughter, who lives in Chesham, rang up tonight to say she cannot buy any meat at all at the moment. She is (was!) a professional caterer well used to buying meat from local butchers and supermarkets. They have all run out!
It’s not tat she wants it for her (former!) job, but for her own family to eat/

My mother then rang to say thanks for her Mother’s Day flowers (I told the shop to deliver them asap in case they got bared from doing so!) to say that my Sister-in-law in Suffolk, also a professional caterer is in almost exactly the same boat!

But for the fact that she has had so many (All!) cancellations, therefore got a lot of meat in stock, they would have had to become enforced vegetarians.


On a slightly different topic, what the hell are all the pubs/breweries going to do with their part used/unopened barrels of beer now?

Is it any surprise that there’s a shortage of meat with all the panic buying? Approx 3 weeks from slaughter to butchers shop with hanging time, throughput would have needed to increase 3 weeks ago to keep up with demand today.

As for the half barrels of beer, from what little I gather last night was going to be a drinking bonanza, many going out for their last night on the pish. I suspect most pubs would sell extra barrels of beer last night and if the bar manager run it well would not put another barrel on when they judged the night was starting to tail off by which time most would be happy to drink anything left on tap, bottles and shorts. No need for most to get stuck with part barrels.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

My daughter, who lives in Chesham, rang up tonight to say she cannot buy any meat at all at the moment. She is (was!) a professional caterer well used to buying meat from local butchers and supermarkets. They have all run out!
It’s not tat she wants it for her (former!) job, but for her own family to eat/

My mother then rang to say thanks for her Mother’s Day flowers (I told the shop to deliver them asap in case they got bared from doing so!) to say that my Sister-in-law in Suffolk, also a professional caterer is in almost exactly the same boat!

But for the fact that she has had so many (All!) cancellations, therefore got a lot of meat in stock, they would have had to become enforced vegetarians.


On a slightly different topic, what the hell are all the pubs/breweries going to do with their part used/unopened barrels of beer now?

Private parties ..... one if our tenants rang me last night to say he had and his partner had lost their jobs in the pub but he said that the landlord was thinking of doing a 'private party' system to keep going while stocks last .