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 broken white lines - Zero
Is it ok to overtake where there is a badger on the road


www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-10650160
 broken white lines - henry k
One has to draw a line somewhere
 broken white lines - hobby
As long as you can get out before the body and return to your side of the road straight after it... yes!

If they think its costing them no extra because its a fixed price job, then I'd suggest that they are paying too much in the first place... any company that includes enough to make a decent profit and allows for having to return to the job is overcharging!
Last edited by: hobby on Thu 15 Jul 10 at 17:47
 broken white lines - Boxsterboy
This story sums up perfectly all that is wrong with too many public servants and their jobsworths attitudes. In the real world (i.e. private sector) the line painters would have just got on and cleared the thing so that they could get on to the next job as efficiently as possible.
 broken white lines - Tooslow
You need a licence to move a dead badger? I thought you only needed a shovel.

JH
 broken white lines - Manatee
>> This story sums up perfectly all that is wrong with too many public servants and
>> their jobsworths attitudes. In the real world (i.e. private sector) the line painters would have
>> just got on and cleared the thing so that they could get on to the
>> next job as efficiently as possible.
>>

Sorry Boxsterboy, the contractor was Amey and the sub-contractor Bellstan. Look elsewhere for attitude problems. I can't believe they didn't have a shovel on the wagon with which to remove the remains to the verge. Why the council felt the need to defend them I can't imagine.
 broken white lines - Baz
Unbelievable country we live in isn't it? Beg or borrow a shovel and 2 minutes job done! Most frightening thing about that story is the comment that they weren't trained to remove roadkill. With that attitude we're done as a nation.
 broken white lines - Lygonos
Roadkill that's been lying for an indeterminate amount of time may have anthrax.

Imagine if it was a mashed chunk of asbestos.

Treat it the same way.
 broken white lines - Manatee
Well I'm no expert, but I'd say that badger had been run over.

Doesn't anthrax come from spores, not being splatted by a white van?
Last edited by: Manatee on Thu 15 Jul 10 at 21:19
 broken white lines - hobby
Must remember not to handle our pet's "cat kill" then... might catch something... and here's me thinking a pair of gloves was sufficient... Last time I looked the TG team are still alive, having suffered no ill-effects, and that cow and squirrel looked in far worse condition than that badger... No wonder we have problems!
 broken white lines - WillDeBeest
That's more like it, Baz. Now we just need 'Elf an' Safety', 'Political Correctness Gone Mad' and 'You Couldn't Make It Up' and my card is complete.

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 broken white lines - Bellboy
me thinks Lygonos is on the laughing gas?
 broken white lines - Lygonos
Sort of ;-)

news.scotsman.com/health/Ghastly--and-feverish-.4706847.jp

This poor chap died from anthrax, initially thought to have been contracted from road-kill badger skins he'd turned into African drums.

The actual inquiry felt that it was more likely to have come from imported West African animal skins.

I believe there have been about 40 cases of respiratory anthrax and 4 deaths as a result of handling skins (3 in US, 1 UK) in the past 5-10 years.

None of them were council road workers !

Lazy sods could at least have painted over the corpse...

www.mindspring.com/~possums/DeadPossum.jpg

More amusing still.. the Sun in full flow... tinyurl.com/Sun-badger-shock
 broken white lines - Bromptonaut
Thanks Lygonos, that possum piccy was the image I was looking for!!
 broken white lines - IJWS14
Dumping the dead badger at the side of the road (even the road it was killed on) is a breach of the Environmental Protection Act. How would you feel if it was dumped outside your house!

Carting it away, if you don't have a waste carrier's license is also a breach fo the said act.

Obviously the client did not check the site was clear before authorising work to proceed and will have to pay for the contractor to go back and finish the job!
 broken white lines - BobbyG
Or a worker has been a lazy b and decided to do this for a laugh or to make a point with his employers and then they are left in a position to have to defend themselves to the media who get wind of it.

So do they say, our employee is an idiot and we will sack him immediately for gross incompetancy and then await the unfair dismissal claim from the employee as he has had 478 approaches from no win no fee lawyers to defend his dismissal? And the Facebook page set up to gather support for him? And then the tabloids get hold of the fact that the bosses' wife's brother's girlfriend's aunty has a hairstyle like a badger and a story is then run about her 2 days later?

Or do they put out a bit of spin trying to justify it, knowing full well it doesn't but they hope that it becomes tomorrows chip paper?

 broken white lines - Zero
All this argument, and not a word for the poor dead badger, or its family.
 broken white lines - Crankcase
Wrong question.

TB or not TB, that is the question.
 broken white lines - Tooslow
If you had 'em digging up your garden you wouldn't have any words of sympathy, just a dent in your bumper.

JH
 broken white lines - sherlock47
And the Facebook page set up to gather support for him?


Must register the FlatBadger id at FB NOW!


If they had been walking as a pair the contractor could have saved 60cm of paint.
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 broken white lines - Tooslow
Hee hee !
 broken white lines - Mike Hannon
I dunno what all the fuss is about. In France, if it was in reasonable shape somebody would have had it away and eaten it long before the jobsworths turned up.
 broken white lines - henry k
Memo to the linesman. Please note this:-
www.adrants.com/images/westwood_college_roadkill_detective.jpg

Beware the next job
www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/images/content/Melbourne/0/Roadkill%20xtras%20sml.JPG
 broken white lines - Tooslow
It's not dead, it's just resting.

JH
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