to be cross with friends son who has hacked up dead pidgeon

[FoJo]

We live in a lovely street with lots of children aged 5 - 11. Earlier in the afternoon we spotted a dead pidgeon in the gutter opposite, not mauled, just lying there. DH said he'd move it 'later' and put it in bin but he forgot. Later on I was looking out of the window and saw 2 10 year old boys who live in street by it. One videoing on his phone while the other hacked it up with a stick, there are now feathers and gunk all over. I should have told him to stop straight away but for some reason didnt. I eventually opened the door and asked if he was going to clear it up and needless to say he went a bit pink and said it had already been like that (it hadnt!) He;s a really nice boy but Its now really bugging me and dh that this horrible mess is opposite our house. Do we snitch on him to his parents (our friends) or just bite the bullet and clear it up ourselves? I can understand the morbid curiosity that made him do it, just annoyed at the aftermath being left in the street!

[hercules1]

knew I was spelling pigeons wrong.

[Nancy66]

....weren't us spelling pedants restrained in not saying anything? You've no idea how much I was itching to.

[hercules1]

I've always had a problem with that word and stupidly trusted the op.

[hercules1]

I did also think that after my first post that someone would come along and point out my mistake and when noone did I thought it must be right.

[2shoes]

SolidGoldBrasse

[Nancy66]

I think she's gone off to give the pigeon a decent burial....in 12 different grave sites by the sound of it

[MeAndMyMonkey]

But let's not ignore the vom factor of all this? Lord of the Flies is right (an O level text of mine so I bloody well know what I'm talking about/ And in a non-stalkerish way, I think i went to same school as SGB).
Ok let's just all be friends and appreciate the BOSS at Glasto, no? Even though I'm too young. obv

[hercules1]

nancy rofl

[hercules1]

Oh shit, does that make me a sicko to laugh at your joke ?

[SolidGoldBrass]

MAMM: Really? Was the post code SE3 something? And the initials BHS?

[Lissya]

Hmm... M&MM says too young for the BOSS... yet has O levels not GCSEs...

[BillyJeanIsNotMyMother]

Well I'm a girl (last time I checked0 and remember being 10 and my friend running round to my house to tell me there was a dead rabbit in the field. I was excited and we both prodded it with sticks for ages.

[MeAndMyMonkey]

SGB - yep... um Wemyss Rd giving too much away? Sixth Form Common room? BHS is right!
But yep O Levels and slightly too young for Boss but still loving it!

[hercules1]

Points finger at Billyjeanisnotmymother and screams Ted Bundy.

[SolidGoldBrass]

MAMM! Squeeeee! Who are you? Give me a hint, at least, or CAT me.

[CornishKK]

And I'm a girl and I remember my sister and I finding a dead crow, flattening it with a see-saw and then trying to get the corpse to balance in a tree. It entertained us for quite a while.

The pigeon was dead, the kids are not going to grow up to be serial killers - but yes they should clean up the mess.

I love animals, I would never harm an animal but I was fascinated with dead stuff as a kid. I even dug up my sister's gerbil about two weeks after his funeral just to have a little look.

We grew up in the country, it was dead animals and smoking in barns or nothing in terms of leisure facilities.

[MeAndMyMonkey]

HIJACK alert - sorry about all the dead pigeons and all!
Oh blinking flip SGB I have no CAT, but I was there 79 - 86...you prob don't know me. I just picked up from your posts that you were a BHS girl. 2 years above me were all the cool gals, Matilda Quiney, Ranji, Deb Stokes et al... hope not giving too much away.. I don't know how to be in touch otherwise without giving away my name?!
Our school motto was something dreadful like 'knowledge is now nor more a fountain sealed'.

[BillyJeanIsNotMyMother]

SGB and Monkey me and my sister went there too (only for a year for me though)

[MeAndMyMonkey]

I like pigeons
City slicker, mos def.
Meat eater - absolutely!
Billy Jean... ooh exciting, when were you there? I still have fond memories of the place

[BillyJeanIsNotMyMother]

96

[SolidGoldBrass]

MAMM: GOodness! Well I was there 75-82. There is another MNer who was there around the same years as you, whose older sister was one of my mates, though I have not seen her on here for a while. BJINMM - ah, well I wouldn't have known you then... Hadn't the school moved from Wemyss Rd by then?

[BillyJeanIsNotMyMother]

Yeah it was in the middle of the Heath (think it still is)

[MeAndMyMonkey]

Billyjean - you are a mere baby (meant in the nicest possible way - my school did atr least teach me vaguely good manners)!
Gosh SGB you are old school then... literally! We prob have loads to discuss, do you remember Miss Brodie (sic) perchance? Best/most harsh French teacher ever, she used to tell me off for having sleeves rolled up. It was a pretty strict school in those days [happy Malory Towers emoticon]
Well, goodnight, and well done us for not outing each other on here!

[SolidGoldBrass]

MAMM! Oh yes. She was a great teacher, in her way (well, once you were old enough not to be scared shitless of her)... Do you remember Mr Lewin? Every time those 'no one forgets a good teacher' adverts were aired I used to think of him...
I will CAT you and we can continue this without boring the knickers off everyone else...