Posted on 08/01/2006 10:40:09 PM PDT by proud_yank
London, England (AHN) - An animal rights activist in a small English fishing village prevented a contest in which fishermen hurl giant dead eel at each other by sending a threatening e-mail. The activist said he would film the contest to attract negative media attention to the village's annual tradition of "conger cuddling."
Crowds have gathered in the village of Lyme Reggis every year for more than three decades to watch two teams of fisherman stand on wooden platforms and swing 25-pound dead eel at each other. The object of a conger cuddling match is to knock the opposing team off the platform.
Andrew Kaye, a resident and spokesman for the Lyme Regis lifeboat crews who raise money through the tournament, told the Associated Press that an anonymous e-mailer had written saying the practice was disrespectful that he would attract adverse media attention to the event.
Kaye told the AP, "We decided that it really wasn't worth upsetting anybody by going ahead with using a dead conger. But it's a dead conger, for Pete's sake. I shouldn't think the conger could care one way or another."
The event generally draws in about $5,600 for Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat crews. About 300 people attended an alternative event on Friday night that involved boat dock fenders in the place of dead eel.
We need to ban liberals.
I'm all for it!
Maybe instead of hurling a dead eel, they could hurl a live animal rights fascist.
Ummmmm, okey.
So, let's change it.
Crowds will gathered in the village of Lyme Reggis to watch two teams of fisherman stand on wooden platforms and swing Animal Rights Activists at each other.
You beat me to it :(
Fine. I guess they can start throwing a dead animal rights activist at each other instead. ;-)
You beat me to it.
ROFLMAO! FReepers have the best sense of humor.
'fisherman stand on wooden platforms and swing 25-pound dead eel at each other'
Seems like the boys/girls need to rent a movie and relax.
You'll enjoy this.
>>>ROFLMAO! FReepers have the best sense of humor.
Maybe.
But I see a lot of freepers crossing us off their party invite lists!
:))
Only if you hurl him at another animal rights asshole. Maybe we should make rules for this sport.
Heck, I've never been invited to a FReeper party. Would be a pretty fun time I'm sure!
Could be fun. Maybe sort of like dwarf-tossing, but without the safety precautions.
The emails get really nasty though.
We have a few PETA threads where I posted a whole mess of threatening emails from an ALF database.
There were even email threats to a mayor in a NY town about stopping the bear hunts.
They don't just email, they do physical actions.
So it really isn't as simple as an anonymous like this article sounds.
Try changing your flag to your locale. I know we do local networking. You may miss the invites if you aren't on your locale board.
The ball is in your court.
I remember driving back from hunting one time this fall, there were some animal rights nuts protesting God knows what on a corner near my place. One of these clowns was dressed in a giant bunny costume and running around in the street.
I couldn't help thinking two things:
1) Aren't rabbits one of mother nature's speed bumps?
2) How I wish I had gotten a deer so I could parade it past these goons.
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