Who's been nicking our ferrets?

[Tango589]

Thanks to Aktungbby for telling me about this:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...90013495981126

I'm sure there are those people who would try and blame it on immigrant Bulgarians or Romanians, but those people would be readers of the Daily Fail or the Guardian.

STONEHENGE, England—Ken Jenkins knelt on this desolate plain one recent morning, gazed at the looming stones and pondered one of the seemingly unsolvable mysteries that swirl about this prehistoric monument:
Why are people stealing ferrets?

My money is on Dowley...

[Herr-Berbunch]

I think the biggest question has to be why is this article even in the WSJ?

Ferrets are great pets, used to love watching my mate's ferret eat a hen's egg when I was a kid. And more recently (7 years ago) the way home from the bars of Cleethorpes I spent about a quarter of an hour trying to entice out from under a car without success (and wasn't just seeing things).

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

And more recently (7 years ago) the way home from the bars of Cleethorpes I spent about a quarter of an hour trying to entice out from under a car without success (and wasn't just seeing things).

You weren't seeing a ferret, it was an old sock! 5 pints of Old and Nasty will do that to a mans' vision.

[vienna]

Felonious feral ferret filchers, perhaps?...


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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

I think the biggest question has to be why is this article even in the WSJ?

Because it is now a high quality Murdoch publication.

Ferrets are great pets

Apart from the smell

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Tango589

You weren't seeing a ferret, it was an old sock! 5 pints of Old and Nasty will do that to a mans' vision.

LOL

[Betonov]

Speaking of Dowley.

Where is he

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Tango589

You weren't seeing a ferret, it was an old sock! 5 pints of Old and Nasty will do that to a mans' vision.

Definitely wasn't a sock, definitely had four legs and a tail and look remarkably ferret-like. I wasn't that drunk.

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Because it is now a high quality Murdoch publication.

That explains everything. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Apart from the smell

It lived in the garden shed, we only played with it in the garden on nice sunny days so any smell didn't affect us, and I don't know if prepubescent boys have any real sense of smell - I know they don't a little later in life.

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Speaking of Dowley.

Where is he

Last seen in Stonehenge...

[Wolferz]

Ferret Gnomes.

Might be time to train a different species...

[Tango589]

Honey badgers are double-hard and stone cold crazy. This is why a lion will abandon its dinner if a honey badger takes an interest.

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Tango589

Honey badgers are double-hard and stone cold crazy. This is why a lion will abandon its dinner if a honey badger takes an interest.

Thick skinned little buggas if they can raid a bee hive for honey and kill puff adders for breakfast. If they were native to Ireland, Saint Patrick would have been out of a job.

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Thick skinned little buggas if they can raid a bee hive for honey and kill puff adders for breakfast. If they were native to Ireland, Saint Patrick would have been out of a job.

Badgers? we don't need no stinking badgers

[Tango589]

^

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Badgers? we don't need no stinking badgers

You're Badger enough for the whole island, eh?