http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19388301

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13507026

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It can make itself useful keeping the wild boars under control.

There must be a skidmark gag here somewhere?

WTB Velociraptors?

Maxxis wildcat

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Was just watching this on the news. When they said experts at Colchester Zoo believed it to be genuine I expected them to say because they had lost one earlier.

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EDIT..faster rolling ones than my riding buddy’s…..
EDIT edit…or the Mrs…. 😀

Whatever you do, don’t use Schwalbe Wildebeests

https://twitter.com/EssexLion

How brilliant is that?

FWIW, when a lion properly roars, you crap yourself. It sounds like someone trying to cut up a mountain of diamonds with a 9 foot tall chain saw.

I really, really like the idea that in some parts of Essex, where I’m not suggesting in anyway that superficiality is more important than reality, people mistook a toy lion for a real one.

Just listened to the guy saying he heard a roar, he heard it but not his wife sitting next to him. 😆

Go out in a group and just be quicker than the slowest member.
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