Thursday, October 14, 2010

Freaky Badgers

In Leicester, England in a Graveyard dating back to the 1100's badgers have been digging up human remains.




A child found one leg bone and since then 2 more have been discovered. Due to the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 local residents are powerless to stop the creatures.  Under the law it is also illegal to distrub a badgers sett(den), so they cant even properly rebury the remains. Reverend Simon Shouler From the article:
We cannot go near the sett, and English Nature will not grant us a license to relocate them so there is nothing we can do other than to let them remain in the churchyard, digging up the remains of people who have been buried for several hundred years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8059257/Badgers-dig-up-human-bones-in-graveyard.html
The article is pretty interesting you should check it out

36 comments:

  1. that dog looks angry. I don't like it's teeth :p

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  2. Wow, badgers are more awesome than I thought :D

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  3. one more time common sense makes the law look silly

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  4. Badgers will conquer the world really soon. You'll see.

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  5. wait... what? Badgers?! seriously?

    http://quarterqwerty.blogspot.com/

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  6. Haha. Crazy badgers and hippie lawmakers.

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  7. Poor humans! What a contradiction this is. They should allow them to rebury the remains, it is unfair.
    Mesty =)

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  8. Who cares, they've been dead for 900 years. As if anyone around today aside from historians actually remember the people buried there.

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  9. if I saw that in real life, I'd shit brix

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  10. "badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom!"

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  11. Perfect post!
    Supportin;)

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  12. Wow......that really surprises me. I can't believe the badgers got a protection act just for them too.

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  13. badgers BADGERS BADGERS!!! too bad they are in protection :(

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  14. I want that animal as a pet.

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  15. This calls for the badger song to be cranked up at the graveyards. get rid of the mushrooms!

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  16. lol, love the badger picture, awesome read too :)

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  17. Wow that was pretty interesting, thanks!

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  18. the badger made me cry a little :x

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  19. The Furry Badger always has the power - the way of the world!

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