
whose fault is it then? Foxes in general? Should they be taught not to walk into open doors and bite unattended children? Boris Johnson's fault for allowing foxes into London? The kids' fault for smelling interesting to foxes? Or perhaps it was just an unfortunate accident. An unfortunate accident which might have been avoided by doing something such as not leaving your front door open when you have small kids.
Edit: You seem to be of the opinion that I'm implying she 'deserved' it. I'm not saying that at all. Nobody deserves such a thing.
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Edit: You seem to be of the opinion that I'm implying she 'deserved' it. I'm not saying that at all. Nobody deserves such a thing.

From the BBC:
Urban wildlife expert John Bryant said such an attack was extremely rare.
"I have only ever heard of two cases in my 40 years of dealing with foxes, one of which turned out to be a German Shepherd and the other a cat," he said.
What difference does it make that it was London?
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Urban wildlife expert John Bryant said such an attack was extremely rare.
"I have only ever heard of two cases in my 40 years of dealing with foxes, one of which turned out to be a German Shepherd and the other a cat," he said.
What difference does it make that it was London?


are you telling me that you've never left an external door open whilst you were in the house?
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any children, present or future, should be taken from you!
* Delete as appropriate
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* Delete as appropriate

*continues to leave back door open in hot weather*
Now, let's get back to slagging off the furries.
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 11:51,
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Now, let's get back to slagging off the furries.

it was an unfortunate accident, obviously. Putting actual blame on anybody in this situation is the work of a moron.
In fact... you know what... you're right. This horrific incident, despite being unbelievably isolated should lead to people keeping their houses entirely air tight. God knows that a rabid bat might fly in through my window at night and bite me...
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In fact... you know what... you're right. This horrific incident, despite being unbelievably isolated should lead to people keeping their houses entirely air tight. God knows that a rabid bat might fly in through my window at night and bite me...

I'm not saying that she should have expected that a fox would come in and attack the children. All I'm saying is that, personally, if I left my front door open with small children in my house, I would find it somewhat risky. Perhaps I'm paranoid, but closing the door seems to me to be normal behaviour for protecting my family from danger.
I'm not trying to say that it's any less horrific or unexpected, I just find leaving the door open to be strange behaviour for a parent of babies and young children.
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I'm not trying to say that it's any less horrific or unexpected, I just find leaving the door open to be strange behaviour for a parent of babies and young children.

but maybe we're just dribbling spastics like the mong said
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 11:49,
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I'm doing you a service
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Foxes aside, there are a whole host of other reasons not to leave small children unattended near open doors.
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w-w-w-w-what about poisonous spiders... brought over in banana crate from the African Continent????
They could crawl in through the vents...
Oh GOD!
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 11:45,
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They could crawl in through the vents...
Oh GOD!

god forbid anyone ever disagrees with you.
and I love how you run to /talk crying about the bad /board people
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 11:47,
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and I love how you run to /talk crying about the bad /board people

this from the person known as the /board grump
top irony-ing there
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top irony-ing there