Occasionally in Canada, some weird stuff happens.

R.

If they know who the scumbags are why don't the cops just arrest them on whatever charge they can. I suppose it's a case of no witnesses.

Seems like the men had an issue with the family sometime ago well why not sort it out with them not shoot a puppy, I bet they went home feeling big and 'ard.

It is the way of the rough, rugged, rural primate.

R.

I was a bit surprised myself to find that they have rednecks here... quite a few, actually. I'd seen them on telly but they're quite disconcerting when you meet them in the flesh.....

Don't know what to say to that, except there are morons wherever you go I guess.

Weird doesn't come close.

Yes but sasquatch are worse. Marginally.

R.

Are you saying that there's a breed of human worse than (cue disconcerting music) rednecks??

Sasquaii are not human.

And I suppose the chav is more neanderthal than the redneck. At least rednecks are quaint 'throwback' types; chavs have no discernibly positive attributes.

R.

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I'm with you Lorna - why if the police know who did it are they waiting for them to turn themselves in

Hell hath no fury like a man who hasn't shot a deer.

Oh there are rednecks in Canada. Quite embarrassing, actually.

Hunters around here tend not to be too clever. We're just coming to the time of year when people put flourescent coats on their horses; the idea being that it's harder to mistake a bright pink or green grazing animal for a deer.

Typical CTV report of course. It seems improbable in the extreme that the hunters were after deer with shotguns. Makes you wonder if the "puppy" was really a cat and if the child really had a broken leg.

I'm staggered (although not as surprised as I should be) that a news report has two such glaring spelling errors in it. The two guys were coming back from a dear hunt, apparently. This is an ancient custom to generate more bed-space in old people's homes: they turn all the old dears loose in a forest and send people with shotguns after them.

And the puppy had a surprisingly good throwing arm, even in the midst of dying. 40-yard touchdown passes in the last seconds of a game were as nothing to this Jack Russell.

The BBC is just as bad these days. And the Times.

I certainly wouldn't look at the Times but I must challenge your claim as regards the BBC. I listen to the BBC news most mornings and Radio 1 in the afternoons. I find the standard of English to be startlingly better than that on CTV. Beyond that, the BBC news seems to me to be quite credible whereas CTV never does. Even in this simple story the pertinent facts seem to be incorrectly reported. I think CTV offers politically biased reporting delivered in a vague approximation to English with a dearth of reliable facts; it makes me want to grab old Lloyd Robertson by the withered bollocks and squeeze some coherence into him.

I thought you were on about spelling!? Have a look at their web pages. In some instances there are glaring errors. Wasn't like that in the old days