Daily Mail on top form

From The Daily Mail:

A great grandmother was bitten three times and had her finger broken in a terrifying attack by a fox that crept into her home as she read a newspaper...

Mrs McMahon said the animal also bit her on the foot in the random attack that has left her with a sense of 'trepidation' in her £500,000 detached cottage in the Essex countryside.

They're serving up a double-helping today:

A group of locals in a leafy Surrey village are threatening to form a 'posse' to take on a group of 200 travellers who have stolen boules and lawn tennis sets and defecated in their manicured gardens...

The village boasts an average property price of £1.1million and is home to celebrities including Andy Murray, actor Antonio Banderas, footballer John Terry and singer Louise Redknapp.

"Anger over ‘protection’ given to foxes plaguing council block"

From The Evening Standard:

Council bosses were today accused of ignoring urban foxes plaguing a north London council block by treating them as though they have “human rights”. Brent council has refused to move a family of foxes that have been entering homes in Queen’s Park in case it causes the animals “unnecessary suffering”.

Resident and former Arsenal groundsman Tom Logan has told how he now fears that his young daughter could be attacked by one of the foxes. Nail technicians Nikki Hollis and single mother Stephanie Malley also live in the flats.

The foxes have set up a den in the overgrown garden of one of the several million-pound homes which back onto the council block. Logan, 48, said he was now wary of allowing his two-year-old daughter Lola to play in the garden without supervision. His wife Nancy, who is expecting their second child this week, said:

“It is pretty frightening. Lola loves playing in the garden and we can’t now leave her in there just to run about. We have put netting up so it stops them getting in. It is frightening because we have a little girl and we hear stories about them coming and attacking kids.”

I'm sure Dearieme would have just driven over it.

From The Daily Mail:

A fox bit a lump out of a mother's arm when she got out of her car to shoo it away after it had refused to move for her vehicle... She got out of her Peugeot 206 after the nonchalant fox, sitting in the middle of the road, didn't move when she honked her horn at it in Fraddon, Cornwall. After being bitten she quickly got back into her vehicle fearing she would be attacked again.

"You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

Nobody knows what the answer to The Joker's question should have been.

But maybe somebody can crack this riddle: Did fox chew through my van’s brake pipe?

Spotted by JuliaM

The joke wears thinner as hole gets deeper

Here's a snapshot of the progress* that the fox/badger/muntjac deer/mole** has made since last Saturday:

* The hole/trench is over a foot across and extends about eighteen inches underground (beneath the plank).

** Delete according to taste/prejudice/phobia.

It was funnier the first time

The fox (assuming the miscreant to be a fox) dug yet another hole in the garden, sometime between last Wednesday evening and this morning. The hole was over a foot deep, a foot wide and the pile of earth that had been thrown backwards (which would be just off the bottom right hand corner of the picture) was about six inches deep and two foot across. Quite remarkable really: