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Bloody elephants, lethal feckers, they should be banned!

I am sure I read the EU is trying to ban Elephants because they are dangerous. Whatever next, Penguins probably and rightly so as they have no place in modern society and everybody knows is it only criminals who own Penguins.

Ovenpaa wrote:I am sure I read the EU is trying to ban Elephants because they are dangerous. Whatever next, Penguins probably and rightly so as they have no place in modern society and everybody knows is it only criminals who own Penguins.

Aren't penguins sooned to be blamed for a rise in obesity due to luring children to their biscuit stashes ?

I had the misfortune to have had to work with penguins in the past and trust me they are vicious, bad tempered buggers.

dromia wrote:I had the misfortune to have had to work with penguins in the past and trust me they are vicious, bad tempered buggers.

And they stink!!!

Ovenpaa wrote:I am sure I read the EU is trying to ban Elephants because they are dangerous. Whatever next, Penguins probably and rightly so as they have no place in modern society and everybody knows is it only criminals who own Penguins.

Many years ago some genius decided that we would aid the civil community in Kenya by helping out with an aerial elephant count.

Now, I aint being funny but for anyone who has never heard a Gazelle, it has a very distinctive screech to it (I was told it was part to do with the Astazou compressor and the tail rotor but either way...noisy little fekkers).

The P2 that was supposed to be flying was ill, so I was taken along as talking (and hopefully counting) ballast.

The thing is elephants dont tend to sit in groups of 5 and keep still and visible...making it a quick bomb round at 2000' AGL and the shoes and socks stay on...oh no....the buggers hide.

So the technique was to belt along low level and get the buggers moving then count. It works, thirty off dirty grey/brown arses bobbing about are countable. But we had to wonder what the hell happened to any natives or their property that was in the way



Surprisingly quick effalumps








Unlike Penguins







They just smell







Guess who's bored...........

When they first built the Penguin enclosure at Dunstable it had a very low wall, great for viewing but still not too close. I took my daughter to see the things when she was very young and had to improvise so she could get a better view. A while later I heard the wall had been raised, not to protect the public, it was to protect the Penguins as they were losing them to school kids who were stuffing them under their coats and taking them home on the coach.

A local Headmistress told me years ago that one of her Primary Pupils came back from Edinburgh Zoo with a Baby Penguin, that was the days when they had a Penguin walk for the public.