From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had a rather unfortunate incident with a fox when on my way to my first
day at a new pistol club ten years ago. I was driving my Hillman Minx
(sixties classic car - braking distance of a pocket battleship) and having
taken a wrong turning, found myself alone on a country road heading past a
small hamlet at about 45mph. Suddenly a dog sized animal came bolting out
and disappeared under the front of the Minx with a loud bang - and
reappeared lying in the road several dozen yards back from where I stopped.
Walking back to it, I found a rather beautiful vixen, gasping its last, but
still alive enough to warrant me fetching the entrenching tool handle from
the boot of the car with a view to a finishing tap on the bonce. To my
relief it was dead by the time I got back to it.
Next thought was; are you supposed to report dead beasties? and I supposed
it would be common courtesy to let the people in the nearest house know,
rather than leave them to find some festering carcase some time later, and
to be honest, I was still a bit shocked.
As I approached the house, the one in the direction from which the vixen had
come, what do I see on the front door?
A fox shaped knocker:
"Oh Shit, I've killed the family pet" thinks I, timorously knocking on the
door, which is answered by a chap who is rather taller than me...
When I told him what had happened, he wasn't terribly concerned - it wasn't
their fox - and said he'd deal with the body, and pointed me in the right
direction to where I was supposed to be going.
He also said how pleased his neighbours would be, as the foxes had just
taken out all their chickens on the previous night....
Tim.
Oh, and it was unfortunate because the original number plate on my Minx is
now S shaped...bunnies don't cause that when you hit them.
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