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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on December 26, 2019, 05:58:06 PM

Title: 'Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono'
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 26, 2019, 05:58:06 PM
Of course


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/26/prominent-lawyer-jolyon-maugham-tweets-about-clubbing-a-fox-to-death
Title: Re: 'Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono'
Post by: Walter on December 26, 2019, 06:25:10 PM
He must be so far up his own arse he doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut !
Title: Re: 'Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono'
Post by: Harrowby Hall on December 27, 2019, 10:39:59 AM
I don't condone his action - but I have friends who have each lost all their chickens to predatory foxes.

Does anyone recall the - now departed - member who effectively opened a soup  kitchen to urban foxes?
Title: Re: 'Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono'
Post by: Roses on December 27, 2019, 10:43:53 AM
Clubbing the animal to death was rather cruel, far better to shoot it if it was attacking his chickens.
Title: Re: 'Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono'
Post by: jeremyp on December 27, 2019, 06:21:18 PM
Quote from: Littleroses on December 27, 2019, 10:43:53 AM
Clubbing the animal to death was rather cruel, far better to shoot it if it was attacking his chickens.

He lives in London in the UK, he probably doesn't own a gun.

Title: Re: 'Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono'
Post by: jeremyp on December 27, 2019, 06:26:27 PM
Quote from: Walter on December 26, 2019, 06:25:10 PM
He must be so far up his own arse he doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut !

Quite. What is it about Twitter that causes people to broadcast all the stuff they should keep quiet about?

Clubbing the fox was one thing and, perhaps, all he could do in the circumstances (I'm guessing because I wasn't there), but, surely he should have realised that telling the world was a bad idea.
Title: Re: 'Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono'
Post by: Robbie on December 27, 2019, 07:07:12 PM
I agree 100% jeremy, the man must have a death wish to go public.

Also agree he probably didn't have a gun but I would have thought he could have shooshed the fox out of the way somehow, brandishing a broom and shouting. Foxes run when people come on the scene. He'll have to reinforce his chicken fence because where there's one fox, there will be a few more.
Title: Re: 'Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono'
Post by: Harrowby Hall on December 28, 2019, 11:24:53 AM
Does the article not say that the fox was trapped in netting and couldn't run away?
Title: Re: 'Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono'
Post by: Robbie on December 28, 2019, 09:10:03 PM
Yes it does, I'm think he could've released it but maybe not. He does say it wasn't much fun killing the fox so perhaps he had no choice, we weren't there. He was daft to post it on social media though,seemed to make more ofa point of wearing wife's satin kimono.
Title: Re: 'Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono'
Post by: Steve H on December 29, 2019, 01:24:02 PM
Quote from: Littleroses on December 27, 2019, 10:43:53 AM
Clubbing the animal to death was rather cruel, far better to shoot it if it was attacking his chickens.
If done efficiently, it'd be instant.