Posted on 06/09/2005 9:54:41 AM PDT by andyk
A restaurant selling squirrel terrine has been forced to withdraw it after death threats from animal rights activists.
Protesters threatened to firebomb the Hadley Bowling Green Inn in Droitwich, Worcs, and to smash up the staff's cars over the £7.95 paté starter.
A female housekeeper was told: "I'm glad I don't work here because I wouldn't want to die in the fire."
After the dish was featured on local television the restaurant received about 25 threatening telephone calls and a string of malicious e-mails.
Its spokesman, Barney Reynolds, said: "The last thing we would want to do is to pander to this sort of intimidation.
"But the fact is that some of the staff were coming into work fearing for their lives."
He added: "We've never had to take something off the menu before because of threats from protesters. I don't know why squirrel meat is so controversial.
"In the past we've sold meat from fluffy little lambs and it's not been a problem."
That belongs on a bumper sticker. Especially in California.
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And I might go later on this afternoon.
FRegards,
No, but it wasn't in bad taste either....
Actually, Tony Martin used an illegal 12 gauge pump-action shotgun against the burglars. Previously he had owned a legal double-barrelled shotgun. He lost his shotgun certificate because the Police revoked his licence after he fired a warning shot to deter some intruders, (he did not hit them). Had his licence not been taken away then Martin would probably never have illegally purchased the pump-action shotgun.
Tony Martin is certainly very eccentric, but he had been burgled many times before and the Police had done nothing to prevent further burglaries. Also, I believe he was assaulted during a previous burglary. He certainly over-reacted and fired on the burglars as they were leaving his house when they no longer posed a threat to him. (Unfortunately, that made the shootings unjustifiable under British law). His case was certainly not as straight forward as many people on FR believe.
It has to look like an accident or the lady next door would never forgive me, and besides her affection for these little deck-chewers, she's really nice.
Thats a thought, but poison is just a helluva way to go.
What, people can't skin squirrels where you're from? ;)
If you boil it first, it fries up just nice. Or, put it into a crock pot overnight.
I wonder why these activists are just now raising cane about this. Squirrel has been an occasional, seasonal dish down here in the south forever. Everyone I know has had it at least once. My best freinds mom make squirrel dumplings. Yum.
Reminds me of the Steve-O video in which the Stevester gamely munches boiled nutria, which is possibly THE nastiest-looking food I have ever seen.
I used to joke with one of my co-workers about eating grilled cat...asked him if he wanted to come over and try some, you know.
So one day when his family actually DID come over for a summer grill-out, I pulled a dressed squirrel carcass out of the freezer and put it on the grill next to the burgers.
He said he didn't believe it was cat...but he wouldn't try any, either.
You better check your local ordinances, friend. The law in most states says that you can shoot at someone who is in the process of breaking into your house. Once they're in, laws differ wildly, and almost no jurisdictions allow you to shoot the burglar in the back as he's leaving.
"If self-defence is legal in the UK, then why would a homeowner defending his home & hearth from an intruder, and with a legal shotgun, be prosecuted?
Even in this country there are different standards: in the west a man may stand his ground on the street while back east he may be obligated to retreat.
Mr. Martin's prosecution pretty much cuts the legs out from under any 'self-defence is legal in the UK' position, wouldn't you say, if a man can't defend himself in his own home?"
Tony Martin shot a burglar in the back as he was running away from Mr Martin's property. The case says nothing at all about whether self-defence is legal in the UK, which it is as other posters have pointed out. I'm no expert on US law, but I think that his actions would have been judged illegal in most US states.
Pssst. Ur s'pozed to peal 'em.
It varies from state to state though, doesn't it? I read somewhere that in Massachusetts people can not shoot a burglar if the burglar is not approaching them, or turns to leave the house when they see its occupied. In that state isn't there also a duty for the homeowner to retreat if they can before using armed force? Maybe one of the others can tell us something about that state's home defence laws.
I have a cat, who is a known bat-killer, and I'd let him out into the tree except he was de-clawed before he moved in with me.
Hey, cat isn't bad with some ketchup on it.
Jus kiddin. :-)
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