From: Outback Jon on
The Older Gentleman wrote:
> Leszek Karlik <leslie(a)hell.pl> wrote:
>
>> In the UK pepper spray is covered by the Firearms Act,
>
> It is? Jesus. I got a shock when I discovered that airguns are legally
> classed as firearms now. Pepper sprays too, huh? Whatever next: harsh
> language?
>
>

Fresh fruit.

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From: .p.jm. on
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:51:23 +0000, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The
Older Gentleman) wrote:

>Leszek Karlik <leslie(a)hell.pl> wrote:
>
>> In the UK pepper spray is covered by the Firearms Act,
>
>It is? Jesus. I got a shock when I discovered that airguns are legally
>classed as firearms now. Pepper sprays too, huh? Whatever next: harsh
>language?

Too late - read your 'hate speech' laws.


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From: Vito on

"Doug Payne" <dwpayne(a)ist.uwaterloo.ca> wrote|
| Not in my area. It's perfectly legal to walk around in the woods
| carrying bear spray. Carry a gun and get caught and you'll need the bear
| spray for a whole new set of predators.

Just for curiosity, where is that??


From: Doug Payne on
Vito wrote:
> "Doug Payne" <dwpayne(a)ist.uwaterloo.ca> wrote|
> | Not in my area. It's perfectly legal to walk around in the woods
> | carrying bear spray. Carry a gun and get caught and you'll need the bear
> | spray for a whole new set of predators.
>
> Just for curiosity, where is that??

The .ca in my address indicates Canada.
From: Chuck Rhode on
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:05:07 -0500, Datesfat Chicks wrote:

> It may be that the wolves effectively remove the easy prey that the
> coyotes can handle, leaving no weak elks for the coyotes.

I attended a National Parks Service lecture in the Yellowstone
courtesy of the Audubon Society. This was before wolf reintroduction.
They claimed at that time that coyotes had assumed the behavior of
wolves such as running in packs.

"Time Magazine Jan.'98, reports, '... An ecosystem stripped of the
wolf doesn't simply become more peaceable; rather, it becomes flabby
and unbalanced. With the dominant predator gone, the next biggest
hunter-typically the coyote-assumes the top spot. As the coyote
population explodes, the populations of foxes, badgers and martens,
which compete with coyotes for rodents and other small game,
dwindle. Large prey such as elk, which were once brought down by
wolves, begin to multiply excessively, stripping vegetation from
highlands, and denuding riparian habitat of valuable stream side cover
such as aspen and willow. And with few elk carcasses to be found,
scavengers like magpies, ravens and grizzly bears, accustomed to
dining on scraps from wolf kills, have to scrounge elsewhere for
protein.'"

o California Wolf Center. "Why We Care About the Wolves." 6
Oct. 2009. 2 Nov. 2009 <http://www.californiawolfcenter.org/why.htm>.

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