The badgers have changed the goal posts!.......

This week, I was amazed to hear that, in the name of fair play and possibly survival, the badgers have actually had the audacity to change the goal posts. A few weeks ago they were boasting about their numbers and putting over the idea that there were so many of them we just didn't have a chance to shoot them all. Every time one of the marksmen downed a badger another one would pop up from another hole. There were just too many to take care of. The scheming little beggars gave the impression that they had us running around in circles, shooting in the dark, making us think we were making inroads into their demise and then they turned the tables and changed the goal posts. To be fair I would have thought that the crack marksmen employed to cull these animals might have had enough nouse to make a note of any goal posts they spotted. This would have, at least, given them a clearer idea of exactly what game these coniving little creatures were actually up to. I mean, I wasn't personally aware that baders played games which involved goal posts but if our trusted leaders say they do, then they must do! So, the goal posts of the age old sport of Badgerball have been changed! In what way, I hear you ask. Well, probably not by much, government spokespersons do tend to exaggerate, but I have heard that the goal is now wider and longer and that all team members have been issued with military strength gas masks. There are also some mirrors attached to the goal mouths to reflect back the target lasers on to the marksmen. Also, it has been rumoured that the badgers have evacuated all their women and children over the hill and are now taking refuge in a temporary camp near on Watership Down! I would like to conclude with a short message from Mr Brock, number 11, The Sett, somewhere in Somerset. "My whole family has played Badgerball since the beginning of time, well most of them anyway, and we have spent a great deal of time and effort getting extremely good at it. The recent upheaval of have to move the post around and change the rules has had a very detrimental effect on us all. We can hardly sleep at day worrying about it all. I look forward to a time when black and white and funny skin coloured humans can live together in harmony and we can return to playing Badgerball any night we please without the fear of being busted"...........