arsepac

[RicW 67]

You may well be right. I've never been in the financial position where inheritance tax comes in!

 

Ric

[Swampy 147]

You may well be right. I've never been in the financial position where inheritance tax comes in!

 

Ric

You don't need to be! Your a studyent living off the state!

 

Swampy

 

 

poorning

[RicW 67]

Yup. Great innit? Your taxes are keeping me now, and whan I graduate I'm gonna retire! Paid my whack and then some in my time so I'm getting it back now. Better me than dole scrounging . . . not going down that road. I have a seminar on Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Language to go to.

 

Ric

[whippetwoman 0]

Off thread a bit i know but id like to share a story about the rspca that was a bit weird and worrying, i thought at the time .I used to keep ferrets,b.o.p as well as the usual dogs ,lurchers ,terriers .I also ,from time to time will take in an injured bird animal and try to mend /hack it back .Im not alone in this im sure and many people will agree that country sports go hand in hand with a love of nature .I recently had a kestrel which i released having been hit by a car and someone ,probably a neighbour had informed the rspca .

Anyway ,before that id been given a mink kit from a dubious source and i reared it on a ferret that had kits at the time ,helping out with bottled milk,and the mink truly believed it was a ferret .

The ferrets were housed in a 8x16 foot aviary which was attached to the kennels and linked to the wintering for my harris hawk via a mesh door into another aviary.

All was good until one day i went out to do the rounds and foud two rspca officers looking over my garden gate .Being a polite sort of chap i entered into a conversation and the crux of was that i invited them in to view the setup Bad move and very nieve of me .I had nothing to hide and they comented on the good standard of care and how well things were looking .That was until the mink ,now fully grown,came racing out and up the wire as it did every day .Questions were asked, and answered truthfully but i was told it was a wild anmal and i didnt have a licence to keep it .I tried explianing that it was an orphan and as such had been semi hand reared and would not be suitable for release .They quoted the law on the matter, that indiginous animals couldnt be released and that it would be seized and rehomed .I asked about the licencing system but was told it was too late for that as i already had the mink in my possesion! .I then asked for them to leave which they did at once .Thought no more of it but 2 weeks later to the day i had a knock at the door .Same two officers with a cat basket and a seizure notice .After reading this i laughed and told them they werent entering my premises to which i was informed a police officer was on his way and that they would be seizing the mink and could they see the papers for the harris hawk .I produced it wth them still on the doorstep and when done so i closed the door . Dogs started barking so i ran round the back to find one of the officers half way over my gate as it was locked .He climbed back as i approached and stood glaring at me .They walked back to sit in the van for a while and then drove away .Never heard anything else from them to this day !.

Sadly the mink and most of the ferrets were 'released'a few years later by someone and the mink got runover by a car .

[whippetwoman 0]

It beggars belief dont it!! cant stand that lot they do more harm than good.