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#KEEPTHEBAN
Despite being officially outlawed, the killing of foxes in hunts continues with impunity across the UK, with police and courts failing to hold participants accountable, a former senior police officer said as the hunting season hit its Boxing Day ceremonial climax.
@Fox_mulder407 said: “Disgusting that hunts still going ahead today, they can afford good lawyers when their hounds ‘accidentally’ rip an animal to pieces in the name of ‘tradition’.”
@phobewilliams said: “As somebody who has spent a lot of time with orphaned/ill foxes, I can confirm they are literally orange dogs. If you feel the need to hunt them you are deranged.”
@danieledwardsma added: “Foxhunting is a barbaric practice which destroys such majestic animals.”
@josephhaigh added: “So it’s absolutely tipping it down with rain in Dorset. Normally this would be annoying, but today it means that the Boxing Day hunt will be getting drenched and hopefully pretty miserable, and the thought of that pleases me.”
@Jay_beecher tweeted: “Growing up, I saw foxes as some sort of mystical elusive creature consigned to rare, stolen silent night-time sightings and fantastical Roald Dahl pages. As a child you see the magic in the world. As an adult you see how mankind does everything it can to destroy it.”
#BOXINGDAY
While NHS workers, police, panto stars and others were at work yesterday, folk at home were missing the traditional sporting fixtures on pay-to-view TV.
@Mollyshep wrote: “BT getting Champions League, Amazon now getting all Boxing Day fixtures. Sort it out Sky, we don’t pay you 40 million pounds a year to watch Hearts vs Hibs and Brentford vs Swansea.”
@OJSLCFC replied: “You pay a lot for your subscription!”
@cramer_jame said: “Almighty £ rules the top leagues and it’s never going back.”
@Steventvshearer replied: “Putting your hatred of Scottish football aside for a moment, the Edinburgh derby is probably the most exciting game of the day in the UK.”
@Ianhalliday7 said: “Sky subs still go up every year for less and less major football. The whole football viewing landscape is a ridiculously expensive shambles.”