I used to do a bit of hunt-sabbing. I wasn't as dedicated as some, but I'd go whenever I had the time.
One day it was all getting rather physically expressive and the local village plod were having trouble maintaining order, so they called in some proper police from a different force based in a nearby city.
The divide between the yokel bobbies and the the townie force they called on was nearly as marked as the difference between the sabs and the hunters.
One of the redcoats was getting a bit aggy with one of our lot and turned his riding crop round so he could use the heavy handle as a weapon against him.
On seeing this, a city police stopped him and told him to get off his horse. A local bobby asked 'what are you doing? He's the master of the hunt'. 'I don't give a fuck', said the other cop, 'that constitutes an offensive weapon' and dragged the posh twat off his horse and nicked him.
( 4Q just lurking, Thu 16 May 2013, 20:44, 5 replies)

I'm 50/50 on the old fox hunting.
On one hand I've got a visceral antipathy to the red coated buffoons and the stupidity of hunting foxes that way.

On the other I find the creeping death of the continuous erosions of freedoms in the UK grim, and foxes are vermin that kill my chickens.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 16 May 2013, 20:58, closed)

Chasing foxes around the countryside on horseback accompanied by a pack of hounds is a stupefyingly inefficient way of controlling 'pests',
and half the time the hunters will try to defend their 'sport' by claiming that they hardly ever actually catch a fox.
I agree that genuine pests need to be controlled, but that's never really been what fox hunting is about.
( 4Q just lurking, Thu 16 May 2013, 21:05, closed)

Also, destroying people's gardens if that's the way the hunt goes.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 16 May 2013, 21:19, closed)

That too.
It's a myth that everyone in the countryside is a fan of their local hunt.

There used to be a gang from Walsall who would contact the Hunt Saboteurs Association to see which hunts they weren't opposing that week so as not to give them bad publicity. Then they'd go along, dressed in overalls and crash helmets, drag hunters off their horses and give them a kicking.
( 4Q just lurking, Thu 16 May 2013, 21:29, closed)

Totally with you on the eroding freedoms mate.
A favourite hobby of mine as a lad was drowning puppies. I took my son out the other day to drown his first litter but I got stopped by a policeman. Apparently the liberal PC queers have decided that it's cruelty to animals. You couldn't make it up.
(Roger McGough-Pipe, Thu 16 May 2013, 23:17, closed)