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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....
Beast regards,
WW
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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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