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[Bizarra]

Workmen paint around badger on road

Friday July 16 2010

Workmen painting white lines on a main road left a gap for a dead badger because it was not their responsibility to clear up the carcass, a council has said.

The animal was killed on the A338 near Downton on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border but when Hampshire County Council workmen came to paint white lines in the centre of the road, they decided to leave a space until the body had been removed.

The responsibility for picking up the remains was the responsibility of New Forest District Council.

Businessman Kevin Maul, of Winterbourne Dauntsey, Salisbury, Wiltshire, who spotted the gap in the lines, said: "I couldn't quite believe my eyes when I saw this poor old badger who had been there over a week.

"Then I drove home to see his body between the lines - they had painted the road, but left a gap where he lay."

Mel Kendal, Hampshire County Council executive member for the environment, said: "We would usually liaise with our colleagues at the district council, who dispose of animal carcasses on the highways, to ensure the badger was removed before the white line-painting crew did this stretch of road.

"This appears not to have happened in this case and the white line-painting crew did what they thought was best until arrangements could be made to dispose of the carcass.

"These arrangements have now been made and the gap in the white lines will be filled in, at no extra cost to the council tax-payer."

Press Association

[Raistlin]

It was a sign of respect, peopled lined the road when it was moved.

[jw67]

quote name='Raistlin' date='17 July 2010 - 03:25 PM' timestamp='1279380330' post='1022936']

It was a sign of respect, peopled lined the road when it was moved.

:lol2: :lol2:

Bet they felt "badgered" into doing it in the end

[Raistlin]

It was very sunny and they all felt a little Otter...

[Bizarra]

It was very sunny and they all felt a little Otter...

So the New Forest crew came and said " We'll leveret it up without turning a Hare" That foxed them, the crowd of shrews

[Raistlin]

I knew you would Rabbit on about Vole and sundry...

[Bizarra]

Deer Chap, I'd bet a buck that I can out fox ewe.

[Raistlin]

I can Bat you out of the park, You are always making a mountain out of a Mole hill, I don't Doe why you think you will win...