Jolyon Maugham should be prosecuted for killing a fox

[halocompanach]

Jolyon Maugham QC stating on twitter that he has clubbed to death a fox rather than calling for help to free it from netting in his garden.

@MistyCloud no.

It's a more polite way of saying a very bad word about subject of the thread

I still don't get it sorry LadyTired.

Thanks for clarifying anyway.

C - U - Next - Tuesday

It’s gone global

nypost.com/2019/12/26/prominent-uk-lawyer-under-fire-saying-he-killed-fox-with-baseball-bat/

Excellent.

He will argue that as it was trapped in the netting he didn’t think he could untangle it without being bitten. Though it begs the question.....why didn’t he ring the rspca for help? Which is what Most would have done.

• Enjoy your lie in, darling?
• Yes, thanks - lovely tea. What have you been up to?
• Oh, I went out for a turn round the garden, to check on the chickens. Hope you don't mind, but I borrowed your kimono.
• Oh! .... Well ... that's OK.
• It's soaking now in the biological powder. I'll put the washing machine on later.
• Why? Did you get slip in the mud?
• No, it wasn't mud. Actually, I've had quite a morning. I clubbed a fox to death with that baseball bat I keep in the hall and then I posted about it on Twitter, including the bit about the kimono. I was trending on Twitter for a while! It seems to have caught the public imagination. The RSPCA may be ringing up... More tea, darling?'

Anyone who remotely condones this fucking savagery inflicted on an animal is a cunt. There is no excuse for his behaviour.

What a vile thing to do. He seems very proud of himself killing a helpless animal. I hope the RSPCA prosecute and win.

@halocompanach c u n ext t Tuesday is another way of saying cunt

I feel like l've imparted working class knowledge today...my Christmas is complete!!

So next time you can't say 'well. He's a bit of a cunt, isn't he?' you can say 'well l think he might be a bit of a c u next Tuesday quite frankly!!' Very useful in the office

He’s utterly vile. I do think he tweeted that just for the outraged responses.

I grew up in the country. We had raccoons and skunks and porcupines when I was young plus coyotes and black bears when I was older. My parents once rescued a porcupine that had its head trapped in the handle of a metal bucket (our dog needed to go to the vet to have quills removed from her muzzle, though!). I once found a raccoon tangled up in barbed wire- we managed to release it, get it to the vet and then it was eventually re-released. A fox entangled in netting/mesh wouldn’t have phased us at all. What a wanker.

YABU - it's (one of) the correct ways to kill foxes.

No it's not. It's not nonsense, and it's not 'hyperbole.' And especially not when the grim and vile individual, crows about how they smashed a fox to death with a baseball bat - on social media - like he just did. As if it was something to be celebrated

I didn’t say he was in the right. Far from it.

But there are people on this thread suggesting anyone who kills an animal are akin to the devil, which is of course nonsense.

it's (one of) the correct ways to kill foxes.

Citation needed.
Everything I have read specifically states that clubbing a fox is illegal. There is no legislation that separates out 'beating with a baseball bat' from clubbing and makes it even remotely acceptable. A terrified fox flailing while trapped in netting is unlikely to die quickly and cleanly following a single blow. This was an act of cruelty and this man deserves to feel the full force of the law. The joking around on Twitter afterwards just emphasises his belief that he is protected.

@KareyHunt utter bullshit

@halocompanach the fox would have suffered far more in distress trapped in bloody netting. Probably already half way dead due to shock and trauma. Oh and foxes are vermin, murder cats and dogs and an absolute pain in the f'cking arse.

But they're pretty right? So 🤷‍♀️

Are you really that ignorant to animal and ecological welfare, OP? There's a reason they were originally hunted and also a reason why a single blow with a baseball bat would be the most humane thing to do to a suffering animal rather than let it carry on struggling for several more hours, and die a slow painful death waiting for the rspca to turn up 🙄... On boxing day.

Also the irony of most on this thread who probably eat meat what do you think they do to livestock in abbatoirs? Sing them to death with bad lullabies? Christ almighty.

The hyperbole on this thread is hilarious.

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I certainly don’t think they club animals to death in abattoirs.

So many callous posters on this thread. Clubbing a fox to death is NOT the 'correct' way to kill the poor bloody thing.

And the 'reason' why foxes were/are hunted is because cunts enjoyed/enjoy it. Nothing else.

Also the irony of most on this thread who probably eat meat hmm what do you think they do to livestock in abbatoirs? Sing them to death with bad lullabies? Christ almighty.

So, if people eat meat, it’s ok for them to shrug their shoulders and say “so what?”. I imagine most people who work in animal welfare also eat meat, so should they all resign now, or should they continue helping minimise human cruelty towards animals? I actually think it’s pretty decent of meat eaters to be concerned about the needless brutality inflicted on a wild animal, and that’s speaking as a vegan of well over 30 years.

@koshkatkoshcat whats the correct way to kill it then??

You don't. You call the RSPCA or a wildlife rescue which will have experts come and help.