Quote Originally Posted by KeithD View Post

When the last fox hunting took place, the farmers around my village would have been quite happy if they'd been given the permission to shoot the hunt when it trampled illegally over their land. Which it often did.
Shoot 'em ... the rhyming word to 'hunt' (in plural).

seems a reasonable enough proposition, ! But with, say, an airgun (in lieu of bullets) as it might give them a taste of what it feels like to be on the receiving end for once.