"A THIEF IN THE NIGHT"
I forgot where it was ..but a couple of years ago..I think it was at a Cemetery..Anyway The small American Flags that put down next to the Markers one day ,were found to be gone the next/Someone complained and the Cops were Notified to keep an eye out for the Vandals..Well ,they put New flags down once again and the cops kept driving by and at one point were parled there most of the night/And when Daylight broke.The Flags were gone once more/The cops even said it was impossible because they were there and saw nothing/Thats all/Now the town is in an uproar over who are these cruel kids doing this to Veterans who are gone now?//Somebody finally had enough and Installed a Camera in the tree nearby...."We will prosecute them to the full extent of the law!"(said the cops!)..And in the morning all that was there was the sticks that the Flags were on/They went right to the Camera and looked at the footage to see who it was/And yep/They caught him,they got him red handed now!/All this time what was taking the flags was good ole Mr Woodchuck who lived nearby/They put a Camera down the hole he came out of and there was all the flags he was using for a nest.....Did they prosecute Mr Woodchuck?(Theyre still not sure how)(he wasnt evicted either)
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"as much wood as a woodchuck could, if a woodchuck could chuck wood" but as usual I could be so very wrong....and either this will be deleted or someone will be quick to tell me what the right words should be......am waiting with baited breath....
Interesting blog as usual Nam....yours usually are, glad they didn't evict the woodchuck....but wishing Mr Woodchuck could find something else to use in the future besides "Old Glory" for it's next padding.....are we sure it's Mr. and not Mrs.? Just wondering...
I do appreciate your views though.....
You kill 10,000 times a day (or more) on the cellular level. If you don't you die. On a larger scale we have zero food (honey being an exception) that doesn't involve killing something. It has already been well proven plants feel pain, and even communicate amongst themselves. The suffering of dying animals is just more noticeable to us, not more intense. The plants you pick they suffer just as much, we are just not set up to hear their screams. To not eat is to die. When we do die, many things will feed on us. To eat is to kill. There exists no alternative.
Noting also there does exist one religious sect which embraces this, then periodically feels guilty and most of the followers stop eating as their way of minimizing the suffering of others, then when most of them have starved to death they more or less vanish for a decade until other gentle folk join it, then the cycle begins again. LoL, in this way Darwin thins the gentle from the herd.
Jazz, if you can come up with a more efficient method than gas (Carbon Monoxide is easiest, all you need is an engine and an exhaust hose) (water drowning of a whole field takes too much water) tens of thousands of farmers would love to learn of it. Of course here it will never be complete extermination because the groundhog that makes it to a bush or a tree becomes exempt from even being chased, much less hunted or exterminated.