Fury after Sussex County Cricket Club 'hired marksman to shoot dead nuisance fox'
Sussex County Cricket hired a marksman to shoot a fox in the middle of the night in a desperate attempt to prevent damage to the pitch caused by the nuisance animal.
Police were called to Britain's oldest first club cricket club, in Hove, East Sussex, at the weekend after worried neighbours reported hearing gun shots.
To the fury of local residents, it later emerged that club officials had hired a marksmen to gun down the resident fox in the middle of the night amid fears it would dig holes in their ground.
Police decided not to prosecute because the club had legally hired a pest control company to "shoot vermin".
But the decision has outraged animal lovers who protested at the slaying outside the ground on Tuesday.
So, the fox had not actually caused any damage...
Surrey has won just 1 Championship match since he was first spotted last season. Cricketers are famously superstitious: he had become a bad omen. Poor little bugger
ReplyDeleteDo you mean Sussex Charles? They ddi get relegated last season contrary to all expectations.
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