Scotland

[theFijian]

Scots odds-on for white Christmas!!

Woohoo!!

 

[Buttermilk]

 

[Jer]

Yay in some ways, I have to get down to Lendrick Muir for the SU Christmas Break on the 27th I think it is. Could be bad if it's all icy! But then I love snow and having snowball fights. The snow is so beautiful as well.

 

[TheTempleTeam]

Wooohoooo, my mate Cammy's a cook at Christmas Break

 

[Jer]

What's your name and I'll say hi to them. Won't he/she be puzzled,

 

[TheTempleTeam]

Tell Him Smiteo Says 'Hi!' his name is Cammy, he's got a BIG AFRO!

 

[theFijian]

That's one big bird!!

 

[Jer]

Tell Him Smiteo Says 'Hi!' his name is Cammy, he's got a BIG AFRO!

Lol, will do,

 

[Kehaar]

That's one big bird!!

Wrong link, Blondie Try this?

 

[Kehaar]

Speaking of Big Bird...

 

[TheTempleTeam]

Absolutly Magic!

 

[theFijian]

Wrong link, Blondie Try this?

Yup, what goes around comes around!

 

[Buttermilk]

RFLOL

 

[Kilted Stranger]

wow... we are getting closer!!!

 

[Buttermilk]

wow... we are getting closer!!!

And so is the snow

 

[Jer]

...Hopefully!!!!!!!

Wrong link, Blondie Try this?

Thought it was, but then I was like, no, it must have been some joke I was too slow to get,

 

[theFijian]

And so is the snow

Let's hope so!!

 

[Kilted Stranger]

it was snowing on the hills earlier... i saw them covered in it! lets hope its like that over here!!

 

[theFijian]

This is normally the point where someone says "Only in America!"

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1459642004

Thu 23 Dec 2004

Man kept four-foot alligator in bath at his tower-block flat
GORDON SMITH

WHEN animal welfare and police officers, posing as prospective buyers, went to meet a man who had advertised a baby alligator for sale, they expected to find a creature measuring about 12in long.

They arranged to collect the alligator in the car park of the Comet store in Glasgow Road, Edinburgh, but when the car boot was opened the officers found themselves confronted with a 4ft reptile staring at them.

At Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday, 34-year-old Anthony Quinn of Kirkgate House, Constitution Street, Leith, pleaded guilty to keeping a dangerous wild animal in his flat on the 15th floor of the multi-storey block between 26 May and 7 July this year without having a licence from Edinburgh City Council; to causing it unnecessary suffering by failing to keep it in the proper conditions; and to culpable and reckless conduct by endangering others.

The alligator, a spectacled caiman, is regarded by experts as being "extremely dangerous". With quick reflexes and needle-sharp teeth, the species has a reputation for being bad tempered.

The court heard an advert offering it for sale was spotted by members of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA), who reported the matter to the police.

Liz Paton, the fiscal, told the court how James Cormack, an SSPCA chief inspector, and plain-clothes police officers opened the boot of Quinn’s Vauxhall Cavalier to find the 4ft alligator unrestrained and unmuzzled.

The reptile was a female, between four and five years old and weighed 7.5kg.
At the flat, Quinn showed the officers the bath in which he had kept the alligator. He had fixed up "a heating contraption" said the fiscal, but the wires were bare.

If the alligator had snapped at them, she added, it could have been electrocuted.

Quinn told the officers he had bought the alligator for £250 over the internet from a man called "Bobby Brown", although he did not believe that was the man’s real name. He collected the animal at the Harthill service station.

Ms Paton said Quinn told the police he was trying to buy a pond to put in the living room of his flat for the alligator and was feeding it on frozen mice and brown trout.

Quinn also said he had not realised how big the alligator was until he got it home. He claimed within a short time he realised how dangerous the animal was and decided to try and sell it for £400.

The fiscal said Quinn had waived all ownership rights to the animal and it was now in an animal sanctuary. It would be sent back to South America for breeding purposes when it was six years old.

The defence agent, Jim Stephenson, said Quinn lived alone in his flat and so no-one else had been in danger.

He said: "He had been looking to get a pet and, over the internet, came across the offer of an alligator for sale. He made further inquiries and did some basic research.

"He was under the mistaken belief the alligator he was buying was some 12 inches in length".

Mr Stephenson said Quinn had intended keeping the alligator in a 4ft fish tank.
His client, he added, "had been somewhat taken aback by its size and was not keen to take it, but the seller insisted on getting his money".

As soon as Quinn got it home, Mr Stephenson said, he realised he could not care for it and decided to sell it. A number of people had responded to his advert, but he was not convinced they would care for it properly.

He later indicated to the police that when he got the telephone call from Chief Inspector Cormack he had suspicions that it might be the SSPCA.

Mr Stephenson said Quinn got the frozen mice from a local pet shop, where they were on sale as food for snakes.

Sheriff Kenneth MacIver admitted he was at something of a loss to come up with a disposal that would meet the stupidity and danger to others of the offence. He deferred sentence for social inquiry and community service reports.

 

[Kehaar]

Bobby Brown selling alligators over the internet....Ronald McDonald taking over Scotlands (not so) secret bunker....what next?