What a great song!

[antiantianti]

I think most people would have their day spoilt by being followed round by people with cameras. I really wonder if this has ever happened to Wrighty. Somehow I very much doubt it.

I know that I would find it very annoying indeed.

I've been filmed once by a whole bunch of antis and I must say it was very weird. I tried to engage them in conversation but it was impossible to get them to lower their video cameras from their faces. They obviously thought some henious crime was about to be committed at any moment!

These people are freaks.

 

[peakpark]

please distinguish between people who follow hunts and huntsmen... people who follow hunts are not breaking the law by following - even if they say they would flout the law they are not actually doing so..

That's good point. So why do antis - sorry, "monitors" - film the rest of the field?
At a lawn meet I attended in Suffolk they were even filming the people handing round the port! Quite what sort of evidence that was was going to provide in a court of law I have no idea.

 

[antiantianti]

"At a lawn meet I attended in Suffolk they were even filming the people handing round the port" Totally ridiculous! It is perfectly that they are deliberatly trying to ruin legal activities.

What crime did they think might be being committed?

 

[wrighty]

I agree there is no point vidoeing people who are just standing around at hunts but anyone on a horse, chasing the hounds as they chase a fox/deer is a fair target for monitoring.
CA advise people at hunts to video anyone they believe to be a monitor (and their vehicles) for future reference, they make no distinction to people with or without cameras.

""How can someone recording someone else ruin a legal leisure pursuit? If everyone is following the law there is nothing illegal to record therefore nothing to stop... "
Once again for the hard of listening. If they are partaking in the legal activity there is no need to record BUT when people of the hunt say they will break the law it is justified that theyshould be monitored.

"I'm not a celebrity"
Giles, you think you are a celebrity, you put vidoes on youtube, you go to the papers, you make every attempt to be seen breaking the law and you even go to sanctuaries to get as much media coverage as you can.

 

[antiantianti]

But wrighty you just don't get it. The Hunting Act makes it illegal to hunt with dogs not to dress up and follow hounds. There is no way a member of the field could be breaking the law because they are not in control of the hounds.

When I go out with my five dogs I break the law because i am using them to flush out deer. A member of the field cannot be using the dogs to do anything because they aren't their dogs.

You really don;t even understand the fist thing about hunting do you.

people said they would break the law because they assumed that the Government would ban people from following hunts. What they said was that they would continue following hunts and they have but that isn't illegal.

The vast majority of people who go hunting have no.it and do not have to change their actions one jot.

 

[JanetGeorge]

Typical? I have never heard anyone say that Pro's are "paedophiliac", some of you might come across as stuck up Mother F***ers but I haven't heard any say you're kiddy fiddlers.

You obviously weren't outside the BFSS AGM meeting venue some years ago when antis screamed EXACTLY those types of insults against BFSS members going into the meeting.