Thursday 24 February 2011

Timewasters - For Fox Sake


In London we love to build hooj vanity skyscrapers, the next one is called the Shard, it's supposed to look like a piece of broken glass, yeah. We also have the most hilarious attachment to the disneyfication of animals, even mangy foxes that live off dropped takeaways. 

A fox has been found living on the job site that's the Shard, so instead of  ignoring it until it made its own way home, the chaps saw the chance to loaf around for a couple of hours and chat to the pretty girl the newspapers sent to cover the story. So they gave the fox the name Romeo (the papers are hardly going to send Lucinda Posh-Bit down for a nameless fox are they?) and called the council, who despite having better things to spend our money on sent Les Leonard, pest control manager at Southwark Council to spend the afternoon fooling about catching the fox.

The work-shyness doesn't end there! One Barrie Hargrove, cabinet member for transport, environment and recycling at Southwark Council, felt he had nothing better to do with the time we pay him for and chipped in "Romeo has certainly been on a bit of a jaunt, and proved rather elusive, but I'm glad our pest control officers were able to help out. He's obviously a resourceful little chap, but I'm sure he's glad the adventure is over and hopefully he'll steer well clear of skyscrapers in the future."

Timewasters!

6 comments:

Gorges Smythe said...

I'm just glad it didn't require a session of Parliament!

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

Gorges

It would of, but incompetence meant they weren't told in time
SBW

The Spiritual Hobo said...

Hi,
I am a hobo with not much to do and I just happened to be passing through. I like your site, so now…
I’m following you.
Thanks!
Signed, hobo

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

SH

Welcome to the campfire, interesting blogs you write
SBW

LSP said...

Hunt the fox - or is that still banned?

Cheers.

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

Still, just about. kind of, ish

Low velocity high pellet count shotgun or a bow?

SBW