An article in the Evening Standard illustrates just how low our permissive society has sunk:
The Royal Parks today denied it had a "rogue stag" on the loose after another walker was charged by a rutting deer. A man in his fifties was knocked to the ground by a red deer that ran towards him from 200 yards with its 16-point antlers lowered.
It was the latest scare in Bushy Park after a woman watching three stags rut was attacked and forced to hide behind a tree, a young girl was taken to hospital after being gored and a swan barely escaped after coming between two stags.
The unidentified man was saved by passers-by, who scared away the animal. He had been sitting watching a rutting contest as two stags competed for supremacy. The man was said to be shocked but not seriously injured by the attack on Sunday evening.
A Royal Parks spokeswoman said: "There isn't a rogue stag, they're rutting. They're not intrinsically aggressive towards humans, they're aggressive towards each other."
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Night in the ruts
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"they're aggressive towards each other."
And anybody else in the area.
"You lookin' at my does? 'Ave that!"
"... watching three stags rut ..."
I'm not sure that stags should be in to spit roasting.
FC, exactly, this is just a spill over from our binge drinking epidemic (cont. page 94).
VFTS, "rutting" in this context means "males battling it out to impress females" and not "a male and a female doing it".
And if you are right, then "three stags rutting" is not a spit-roast so much as a "gay deer orgy shocK - bloody hell they'll be expecting the legalisation of gay bigamous marriage next" ( cont. page 95).
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