Humphrey Head , the last wolf shot in England
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My wife and I sat at a table in a hotel in Ibiza and a couple were sat with us by the head waiter . They were from Lancashire , we are from West Yorkshire and I asked the man what they usually did for holiday in the UK when not going abroad . He said they went touring for a few days at a time, they had an estate car and they slept one night in the car and then found a B and B the next day , it saved them money . Their last trip was to Humphrey Head , Morecambe Bay the previous bank holiday where the last wolf in England had been shot.
I asked him if his car was a dark green Austin Maxi and gave him part of the registration number , it was his car .
I had been duck shooting with my brother in law and he wanted to park his car in the pull-in on a narrow lane next to the beach . The parking space had been taken by an estate car , all the windows were steamed up and it was 4:30 am and someone was obviously sleeping in the car.
The next parking space was two hundred yards further on and we had to carry all the heavy gear back past his car to get down to the beach , My shooting companion ranted for a good ten minutes about inconsiderate people using his parking space and wanted to bang on the roof to wake them up as punnishment . I suggested that the noise of shotguns going off some twenty yards away from the unsuspecting sleeping motorists would give them enough of a fright so on we walked .
Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:13:54 +0000Coincidence ID:4026
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