of competitions, carvoids & conservationists
All members of the human race like competition, at least all normal members – thus excluded from that statement are lefty hermaphrodite educationalists with 37 piercings that believe the ginger haired fat kid should not be tormented because he throws a cricket ball like a girl. As for competitions, we all do them, we all like them, they appeal to our nature… now, answer these 234 questions to win a free entry into the commemorative Tutankhamen Elvis Dambusters wall clock prize draw.
Of course, there are more sensible types of competitions – the ones where you get to win booze – such as this
Then there are competitions where you get to shoot vermin with the chance of wining beer vouchers. Now those sorts of competitions should give your humble correspondent a priapism. Well at least they would if a viable erection wasn’t a dim & distant memory – which brings us rather neatly to a competition that is current being by the chaps at Sporting Shooter magazine which as got a lot of twit-chers a little hot around their copies of Olsen’s book of standard British birds.
“A shooting magazine has provoked outrage by offering a £500 prize to the person who slaughters the highest number of magpies in the next five months. Bird conservationists and government officials last night accused the organisers of ‘encouraging people to break the law’.”
“Sporting Shooter, a monthly country sports magazine, announces the award in its latest issue, out this week. Charlie Jacoby, the contributing editor, said that readers would be urged to kill, trap and destroy all the magpies they can between now and the end of July.The magazine launched the competition because senior editors believe that magpies, which are known to eat the eggs and young of smaller species, are responsible for a decline of the songbird population across Britain.”
Has no one figured it out … £500 – how much cheap publicity is that, for doing something that is completely LEGAL!
Looking through my game books last night (after push starting The Englishman’s 4x4 across a field), I see my total tally of magpies to date is a lamentable 7 – better break out the Franchi & the Larsen trap to stand a chance.
Comments
Oh! come on!!!!
Lets face it, the only thing the RSPB have an interest in are birds, (of the feathered kind, if there was a choice between a human & a bird, they would zap the bird.
Only when the last human is eviserated by a red kite will their work be done.
Basicly, they are nutters!!!!
OK!!!!
David
Posted by: David | March 1, 2005 9:17 PM