Vicious' fox traps eight people in Cambridgeshire sports club

[Bubbles]

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[BeRational]

Foxes are usually quite timid.

[Ricky Spanish]

Reads more like, 8 people scared of wildlife cause mass hysteria in Cambridge sports club.

Activities in club include standing on chairs squealing like a wee girl if you think you see a spider.

Running around in circles, flapping your hands like a fop, because you find a caterpillar in your organic salad.

[ekim]

Were the people dressed as chickens?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Foxes do pose an existential threat and cause life changing injuries. Look what's happened to the Greek economy.

[floo]

When I read that story yesterday I found it very hard to credit. I have encountered a number of foxes at our previous property, including a fairly sizable male fox, they ran away from me!

[BeRational]

When I read that story yesterday I found it very hard to credit. I have encountered a number of foxes at our previous property, including a fairly sizable male fox, they ran away from me!

Yes it does seem strange men running from a fox.

It could easily be overpowered.

[ippy]

Were the people dressed as chickens?

I bet they shouted spoonerised versions of Kentucky Fried Chicken when it chased them and not having the pluck to face it would be ducking out of their responsibilities, mind you they probably re-couped at the bar afterwards 

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[floo]

When I read that story yesterday I found it very hard to credit. I have encountered a number of foxes at our previous property, including a fairly sizable male fox, they ran away from me!

Yes it does seem strange men running from a fox.

It could easily be overpowered.

Of course it could!

[Udayana]

Maybe they were frightened that the RSPCA might think they had been harrassing it?

[BashfulAnthony]

Maybe they were frightened that the RSPCA might think they had been harrassing it?

Or maybe they are just attention-seeking imbeciles.

[Ricky Spanish]

Did they killed it and smear the fresh blood over the faces of their first born?

[BashfulAnthony]

I used to live in an area where there were numerous foxes to be seen.. I never saw a fox chase anything,  but I twice saw a cat chasing a fox.  Whenever I saw one, the poor creature would run away instantly.  It's all another attempt to vilify foxes, probably in the hope that it will influence the latest efforts to get the hunting ban overturned.

[Shaker]

I used to live in an area where there were numerous foxes to be seen.. I never saw a fox chase anything,  but I twice saw a cat chasing a fox.  Whenever I saw one, the poor creature would run away instantly.  It's all another attempt to vilify foxes, probably in the hope that it will influence the latest efforts to get the hunting ban overturned.

Damned straight. Anybody who knows anything about either foxes or domestic moggies or preferably both knows that when it comes to a toe-to-toe, chances are the cat will come off best. How do I know? Seen it more times than I can remember from my landing window.

[BashfulAnthony]

I used to live in an area where there were numerous foxes to be seen.. I never saw a fox chase anything,  but I twice saw a cat chasing a fox.  Whenever I saw one, the poor creature would run away instantly.  It's all another attempt to vilify foxes, probably in the hope that it will influence the latest efforts to get the hunting ban overturned.

Damned straight. Anybody who knows anything about either foxes or domestic moggies or preferably both knows that when it comes to a toe-to-toe, chances are the cat will come off best. How do I know? Seen it more times than I can remember from my landing window.

Once, over a period of time a particular vixen would come round regularly each morning for scraps.  After some time she disappeared, and I feared the worst  (urban foxes only have a life expectancy of nine months.)  But then she re-appeared, and with a litter of five cubs.  And I began to feed them daily. One particular little one got so tame he would eat out of my hand:  a great privilege for me.  Eventually they all left of course; but to suggest that they were in any way fierce or dangerous is complete ignorance of their nature.

[Harrowby Hall]

Would this story have been so hilarious if a child had been savaged by the fox?

You should consider the damage foxes do to sheep.

[Shaker]

Would this story have been so hilarious if a child had been savaged by the fox?

No, it would be another brick added to the wall of confirmation that if you fuck about with wild creatures and trash the environment, encroaching further and further and further on their habitat year by year with endless estates of shitty little boxes for people and their perpetually open-mawed useless eaters to live in, you're going to have to bear some consequences.

You should consider the damage foxes do to sheep.

Why?

[OH MY WORLD!]

"...open-mawed useless eaters..." That's rich coming from the likes of you Shaker. And explains why you are such an avid spokesman for the death industry. Now that maybe what your parents thought of you, but break the nasty circle old man! Have a diet cookie!

[OH MY WORLD!]

I would think that Fox either has a disease or has kits near by. They are very protective mothers.

[Harrowby Hall]

You should consider the damage foxes do to sheep.

Why?

Because it would give you an idea of the harm it could do to a child.

[Shaker]

And explains why you are such an avid spokesman for the death industry.

I'm not a spokesman for the military or animal slaughtering, which are the only death industries that spring immediately to mind.

[BashfulAnthony]

Would this story have been so hilarious if a child had been savaged by the fox?

You should consider the damage foxes do to sheep.

They don't "damage" sheep:  they eat to survive.  And if it comes to damaging sheep, then look no further than humans - or weren't you aware of that?

[Harrowby Hall]

They don't "damage" sheep:  they eat to survive.

Really? And have you seen a hen house after a fox has got into it? A score of dead birds, all killed by the fox, and left uneaten. They eat to survive? Get real.

And this has nothing to do with human diet.

What, by the way, do you feed to that genetically-engineered wolf that you anthropomorphise?

And anyway, you've got it wrong. I was asking you to consider the kind of injury that a fox can inflict on a sheep and to imagine that being done to a child. But perhaps you have no interest in children ...

[BashfulAnthony]

They don't "damage" sheep:  they eat to survive.

Really? And have you seen a hen house after a fox has got into it? A score of dead birds, all killed by the fox, and left uneaten. They eat to survive? Get real.

And this has nothing to do with human diet.

What, by the way, do you feed to that genetically-engineered wolf that you anthropomorphise?

As usual your ant-fox stand is based on ignorance.  If a fox has the good luck, to him, to find a rich source of food in a hen house, he will try to take it all. He kills with the intention of returning for it all.  If you were starving, and most foxes are never far from that state, and you broke into a supermarket, would you just walk off with a tin of beans?  No, you would pile up all you could, though you might not get away with it all.  Why would a fox, usually desperate for food, stop to gratuitously kill ?  Only humans do that  -  you are anthropomorphising the creatures.

[Shaker]

Really? And have you seen a hen house after a fox has got into it?

Anybody so unburdened by basic savvy as to be unable to secure a hen house so that it's fox-proof (something I've had to do several times as I used to keep hens for years, living in the countryside at that) has no business keeping hens in the first place as they're clearly unequal to the task. Some of these people almost seem to positively revel in implicitly broadcasting to the world that a fox is their intellectual superior.