Inever had Mark E Smith down as an animal lover but this shocked me!

[bigmouthstrikesagain]

so I really hope this turns out to be a load of Maily Dail bollocks!

It is harsh when your musical Heroes are shown to be twats - fortunately I never looked to the Fall as moral arbiters or role models but still squirrel massacre is a bit hard to forgive! I do find it hard to picture him actually catching the squirrels in order to do this though - seems unlikely...

I won't be taking the hedge clippers to my Fall collection just yet!

Completely off topic, but when we wre at uni in Manchester my best mate went out with 'Tall Paul from the Fall! ' .. ...

Blardy hell that photo does him no favours.I remember seeing The Fall in my wanton youth.....Seems an eternity ago now.Sigh.

Poor squirrels!!!

Yes wrinklytum in that photo he is just like the pissed old regular who spends all day nursing his pints at the bar and occasionly swearing at folk... not a good look (but in a strange way accurate).

The Fall take an awful lot of speed
I would imagine that would be conducive to strimming the odd squirrel

I remember being in a pub whilst at a festival, we were sat at a table next to Mr Smith and some others. When we left I realised I had left my wallet on the table and I was really worried that he would have stolen it!

Even then I knew he was no good

Have to say this is something Morrissey would never do in a million years - for all his faults