Mail v Foxes

oboogie · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:07 pm

In a break from tradition, here we have a story of a fox making it's way into a child's bedroom, not to savage it but to have a nap.
Furry-tired Mr Fox! Daring cub creeps into townhouse, trots up flight of stairs and curls up in schoolboy's bed for a SNOOZE
Predictably the comments are divided between the cutesy-wootsey

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The poor girls had it rough by the look of her. I hope she makes a full recovery. Foxes get too much bad press.
- Tez, Manchester Uk, 18/4/2012 15:21

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How sweet.
- Cat Lover, London, 18/4/2012 15:21

and the violent

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where is my shotgun when I need it
- john, london, 18/4/2012 15:24

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shoot it!
- harry goodhead, Dorking,

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Shoot it! Vermin
- charles, London, 18/4/2012

and the barking racist

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Hmmm methinks we are not being told the real FACTS of this story. The second picture claims to be of the 'child' and his mother when it clearly isn't. Where did this 'child' come from and what is it's contribution, if any, to ENGLISH society? I have phoned the police and instructed them to carry out a thorough investigation.
- MrMickRoach, England, 18/4/2012 15:42

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1sP9ZoS1K

Arnold · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:18 pm

There seem to be two MrMickRoachs. I think it was meant humorously.

oboogie · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:35 pm

Arnold wrote:

There seem to be two MrMickRoachs. I think it was meant humorously.

I'm sure there are two, a sensible one and a tosser, I think the former is stalking the latter. However I'm sure this one is the real McCoy, there's no humour, parody or irony there, just a self-righteous, racist, paranoid, self-important, cunt........... being a cunt.

Arnold · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:39 pm

It didn't strike me as funny, but surely nobody however racist you think it a police matter.

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"Dina closed the bedroom door on the fox and called the RSPCA, who took her away." I hadn't realised that the RSPCA rehomed people, but I'm definitely interested in taking her.

- Alfred, UK, 18/4/2012 17:15
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oboogie · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:00 pm

Arnold wrote:

It didn't strike me as funny, but surely nobody however racist you think it a police matter.

In Mick's mind it is impossible for a white woman to be the mother of a black child as stated in the article. The child is therefore clearly an illegal immigrant smuggled in to claim benefits. The woman is obviously the fixer. I don't believe for a second that he has phoned the police, but can imagine the hilarity at the nick if he had.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:01 pm

I read that as anti-Mail irony.

oboogie · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 7:14 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

I read that as anti-Mail irony.

I've obviously got no sense of humour. I can't see what's so funny about it.

Anyway following the racist we have the sexists

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why has that boy got a pink duvet cover?
- Liane's friend, here, 18/4/2012 16:08

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I don't know what's more alarming, finding the fox asleep on your bed or discovering that you mum has made your bed with girls covers!!!
- Chewy, Up in the clouds proving we are alone, 18/4/2012 16:06

and the comedienne (ZaZa sounds female to me)

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Why on earth would she keep a fox in a child's room? These animals live in the wild, and often bear disease. Have the child protection authorities been alerted? I wonder if this mother may have a legal case to answer.
- ZaZa Doggy, Bishop's Stortford, 18/4/2012 17:00

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1sPt9fhOY

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 7:45 pm

I didn't say it was funny...

Arnold · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:13 pm

They shit on Malcolm's bed, you know.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2844

I like the way the Mail have tried to put an anti-BBC spin on this article:

The fox attack myth, by BBC man: Chris Packham says he doesn't believe people who are attacked by the animal

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1swJtHdKd

The paper's position is made plain by the final few paragraphs:

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In May 2010 baby twins Lola and Isabella Koupparis had to spend a week in hospital after a fox crept into their cots at their home in Hackney, East London, and savaged their arms.

Last year London student Mario Castilli woke up to find a fox biting him on the face while he lay in his attic bedroom.

Failwatch regular Malcolm Armsteen has regularly complained about foxes crapping in his garden.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:57 am

What bollocks in the comments.
Foxes are very timid in the face of any sort of aggression, so long as they have an escape route. My mother had a tame one as a pet when she was young. I've seen plenty chased away by quite slovenly cats.
It's not their aggression I object to, it's their incontinence.

Esqui · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:40 am

Indeed, foxes will always try and run away, and only get aggressive when they can't. Squirrels are the same, and you don't see the Mail calling for them to be shot.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:42 am

That's because they haven't interviewed me yet.

storygirl · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:42 am

Esqui wrote:

Indeed, foxes will always try and run away, and only get aggressive when they can't. Squirrels are the same, and you don't see the Mail calling for them to be shot.

I call for them to be shot, grey ones anyway.

oboogie · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:04 am

storygirl wrote:

I call for them to be shot, grey ones anyway.

Racist!!

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