But great rat catchers, i often see a fox with said rat in his mouth late at night driving in london, the standard had a great article about the fox, said the average fox kills 6 rats a day in the city, dogs also get the mange, and they dont catch it from the fox!

Sadly the story reported seems to only include "posh bird hits bloke with stick" but there's not enough background. It seems to imply they were there to partake in a drag hunt (totally legal, no foxes involved) but the sabs claimed to believe (doesn't seem to say why) that it was a cover and they intended to hunt foxes, in which case they could argue their intervention was to prevent a crime (grabbing a horse is still stupid and reckless though). Also I've seen a couple of claims that the horsewoman used the horse to ride into the sabs first before the footage starts (seems very unlikely as it would put her and the horse in danger).

Shoddy journalism all round IMO

You can't break one law to enforce another.

In England and Wales certain forms of trespassing, generally those which involve squatters, raves and hunt saboteurs are covered by criminal law.

Alright now?

Optimistic as ever

It was, by the saboteur's own admission. I covered this earlier in the thread.

Both groups should just stay the f*** away from each other. Much easier.

Optimistic as ever

Thanks for that - just watched it, but still seems inconclusive. She rides very aggressively after the event (towards the end of the footage) but whether that's due to the earlier stuff is hard to tell. Both groups seem unnecessarily aggressive (though, given it was supposedly a drag hunt, I do understand why the riders would be p*ssed off that people would go out of their way to disrupt a perfectly legal and moral event). Having said that, I don't know whether there is a history of this particular hunt targeting foxes illegally under the cover of drag hunting?

Trespass is a civil offence. Aggravated Trespass is a criminal offence. To be convicted of aggravated Trespass you must be preventing someone carrying out lawful activity

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