Who knew that the Scots could lie so well? I can’t embed the clip go watch this report from the BBC yesterday. They interview Paul Ramsay who valiantly describes how lovely they are, then accuse him of releasing beavers into the countryside before cutting to a farmer who whines about beavers building a big sandbox in his flood control. He wants to be ‘compensated’ and thinks that if Paul can’t pay for the damage, the government should.
The truly maddening thing is that the BBC uses the lovely footage from the free beavers supporters and then sets it to sinister lies and accusations. I HATE HATE HATE when journalists can’t be bothered to listen to what you say but are thrilled to steal your photos!
The aggrieved party says that nasty beavers did THIS to his farm. Because you know how ruffian beavers are always thugging around and making the land dry and sandy. I would be shocked but I’m so old that I can remember the lawyer of a certain property owner saying that beavers digging in the bank were making cracks in the walls of his 80 year old house, and some doors weren’t closing properly. He was rewarded with a half a million dollar sheetpile wall if I recall correctly.
