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Fur Flies After Road Workers Paint over Dead Badger
Sep 10, 9:13 am ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Local officials in Britain were reported to be furious after road workers apparently painted a white line on the side of a highway right over the furry body of a dead badger.
Britain's Sun newspaper on Tuesday splashed a photo of the badger across half a page, saying the picture was taken by a passerby who saw it on the side of the highway in Somerset, southwestern England.
The freshly-painted white line at the road's edge went right over the dead animal's back.
"This is totally unacceptable and we will be asking for an explanation," the paper quoted a local government spokesman as saying.
The lines were painted by an independent contractor, he said.
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Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no steenking badgers!
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Dear TEd: I have an idea the lane markers on roads are guided by the
median, not the edge of the road. So the guy laying the line never saw
the badger. Newspapers love stories that get the bleeding heart animal
lovers upset. Incidentally almost a year ago thousands of badgers were
to be culled because of recurrence of bovine tuberculosis was blamed
on them. I haven't heard followup on that. Have you?
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Yep, it's a true story, TEd - we read it in the pub just this lunchtime, courtesy of The Sun. For those who don't know, The Sun is an English newspaper popular precisely because of the accuracy of its reporting and its tendency to take a moderate viewpoint. Oh, and its avoidance of all forms of bias and sexism. Ahem.  Here's a link, with graphic pictures and probably gratuitous pop-up ads etc: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002420237,00.htmlI have to confess I couldn't help laughing when I saw the article, and even more when I saw the picture. Somebody really wanted to get the job done and dusted.  Performance related pay, perchance?
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Dr. Bill is right. They don't have time to stop and clean up every little thing that gets in the way and even if they did, the guy running the paint machine (they don't do it by hand, you know, they have a large piece of road equipment that puts them up higher than a suv) didn't even see it. There's a similar picture of a possum (original American style) with a yellow stripe down its back (it *was in the middle of the road) that's gone the rounds over here. I was looking for it but couldn't find it right quick. Sure, it's funny, but it's not evidence of mal- or even misfeasance.
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I found it. We sent it to a fellow AWADer (who probably *wishes to remain anonymous) from a Southern e-postcard site as an admittedly twisted birthday greeting: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q10122FB1
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But was there more of a stink kicked up over the skunk?
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Dead Skunk
Loudon Wainwright III
words and music by Loudon Wainwright III
Crossin' the highway late last night,
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right,
He didn't see the station wagon, car,
The skunk got squashed and there you are!
(Chorus)
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road,
Dead skunk in the middle of the road,
Dead skunk in the middle of the road,
Stinkin' to high heaven!
Take a whiff on me that ain't no rose!
Roll up yer window and hold yer nose,
You don't have to look and you don't have to see,
'Cause you can feel it in your olfactory,
(Repeat Chorus)
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road,
Dead skunk in the middle of the road,
Dead skunk in the middle of the road,
Stinkin' to high heaven!
Yeah you got yer dead cat and you got yer dead dog,
On a moonlight night you got yer dead toad frog
Got yer dead rabbit and yer dead raccoon,
The blood and the guts they're gonna make you swoon!
You got yer dead skunk, in the middle,
Dead skunk in the middle of the road.
Dead skunk in the middle of the road,
Stinkin' to high heaven.
C'mon stink!
(Fiddle break)
You got it,
It's dead, it's in the middle,
Dead skunk in the middle!
Dead skunk in the middle of the road,
Stinkin' to high heaven!
All over the road, technicolor man!
Oh, you got pollution.
It's dead, it's in the middle,
And it's stinkin' to high, high heaven!
(Fiddle fadeout)  © 1973 by Loudon Wainwright III
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From the bottom of Fish's link, there is this fishy point made:
"A month ago we told how workmen painted yellow lines around a traffic cone in Huddersfield, West Yorks. "
Now 'splain how that was done with a machine....
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Howye fokes
Sinsationalised and shocken stories like that just go ta show that paper never refuses ink. Don't know nothin about ded badgers refusen paint, though.
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Could the badgers claim their indictment in bovine tuberculosis problem had been whitewashed?
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Loudon Wainwright IIIAh, but there you go again sharing an old friend, Juan  A Live One is especially dear to me; therapy for many an occasion when taking myself too seriously. Yes, even a fish on a bike can take himself seriously!
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My onliest complaint about the badger is that the lazy sods didn't turn the badger round so that the paint ran along it from nose to tail to match its natural markings. If'n they'd a done that, no one would have noticed. What The Sun is really famous for (note shona's comments about sexism) is this: http://www.page3.com/
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Three years ago I have seen a similar picture with a marked opossum in the middle of the road - somewhere in Southern US, I believe
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CK--This is a spoof, right? (Please tell me yes.)
'...Page 3' and 'Page Three' are registered trademarks. All rights reserved. © News Group Newspapers Ltd, 2002Nobody can register page numbers, can they?? =========================================================== Emanuela--if that picture you saw was in the Southern U.S., then you hafta call it a 'possum!
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I recall seeing one a few months back of an armadillo in the middle of the road with a yellow stripe painted across it.
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Reeling: Oscar road kill
02/15/2002
By CHARLES EALY / The Dallas Morning News
The Oscar folks, as usual, have planted themselves firmly in the middle of the road,
nominating The Lord of the Rings, A Beautiful Mind and Moulin Rouge as the best movies of the year.
One of these days, someone is going to explain to the academy that the only thing that
belongs in the middle of the road is a yellow stripe or a dead armadillo. Until then, Reeling
must buck up and accept the fact that Oscar loves safety – and runs from creativity.
(Close, but no cigar.)
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CK--This is a spoof, right? (Please tell me yes.)
'...Page 3' and 'Page Three' are registered trademarks. All rights reserved. © News Group Newspapers Ltd, 2002
Nobody can register page numbers, can they??No spoof. And, yes, you can trademark "Page 3" as a brand. Manifestly. And The Sun has done so. Come back, Sam Fox, all is forgiven!  [/drool]
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Yes, I posted that picture above! (I hope the link works). (I'm talkin roadkill, not semi-nekkid women)
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Capital Kiwi:
i do not see what's wrong with the picture of the girl. nice body, nice - almost classic - underwear. i hope you do not think that the picture of her and one of a dead animal painted over have something in common (ecxept being published by Sun)
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>i do not see what's wrong with the picture of the girl. nice body, nice - almost classic - underwear
I think that the "real" page three pictures are on the links within the site - the front page is rather tame.
I remember seeing copied of "the Sun" years ago in Spain - there used to be little black bikinis inked in (it looked as if it had been done by hand). I always wondered about the people who did that job - did they just have lot of voluteers to call in as the plane with the papers arrived?
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Vika, I wasn't passing judgement - just information. I rather like the Page 3 girls, if anything. It reminds me that I used to interested in them. I just can't remember why!
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What I envision here is an Andy Warhol-like creation...a sculpture of mustelid roadkill of your choice nicely embossed on a section of road and hand-painted to the most realistic (and goriest, if so desired) of effects, and encased in a cubicle of glass...I like the weasel, crumpled but whole, with just a blemish of blood, and perpendicular to the middle-line so it crosses his body in the center for a surreal imagery-combo of the cross and "x marks the spot." No skid marks, just a clean squash. And a double white-line, of course. Should go for at least $45,000 in any reputable gallery when done. Choose your specimen! Here's a link to an old thread to help you out: http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=53198
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