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Big Cats Loose in UK?
« on: 02 February 2011, 20:31:42 »
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110128/tuk-ex-policeman-in-big-cat-sighting-6323e80.html



Myself & Swmbo both saw a Large Black Panther  beside a hedgerow in a field sloping down to the road just outside Two Bridges on Dartmoor. We were touring the area in 1998 & reported the sighting immediately as it was so close to Habitation. Before anyone asks, we were both stone cold sober & it was DEFINATELY a Panther! The Police took our details but gave the impression they thought we had stayed too long at Buckfast Abbey earlier in the day! ::) ;D
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #1 on: 02 February 2011, 20:34:32 »
i for one belive you mate...there are quite few reported around here :y
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #2 on: 02 February 2011, 20:35:52 »
You weren't drunk and looking at a house cat through binoculars were Philrich ?  ::)  ;D
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #3 on: 02 February 2011, 20:39:58 »
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I didn't wear binoculars then mate, I had 20/20 in both Mark 1's  ;D ;)

I will admit to wearing 'em now tho, can't see the keyboard without 'em! ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #4 on: 02 February 2011, 20:40:11 »
Yep... There was a guy nutter in the local area many, many years back who went bankrupt and released all of his wild animal collection into the wild so I believe in them.

Plus, SWMBO and I have seen a couple :y :y
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« Reply #5 on: 02 February 2011, 20:43:51 »
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You weren't drunk and looking at a house cat through binoculars were Philrich ?  ::)  ;D
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I didn't wear binoculars then mate, I had 20/20 in both Mark 1's  ;D ;)

I will admit to wearing 'em now tho, can't see the keyboard without 'em! ;D ;D ;D ;)


I remember my last eye test.  Examiner asked if I could read the third line on the letter board.

"Yes no problem", I said.  "Where is it then?"....  ;D  ;D  ;D
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #6 on: 02 February 2011, 20:51:25 »
nice to think they exist in these places, love to see a wild cat

i counted 8 parrots over the park here last yr, and around weybridge there is loads of tropical birds everywhere, they were all let out after the filming of the birds in the 60's adapted to our climate
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« Reply #7 on: 02 February 2011, 20:59:52 »
Yep, biggest breeding colony of African green parakeets is Bushey Park near Hampton Court, but spreading all over the Southeast  African Greys also. ::)
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #8 on: 02 February 2011, 21:07:11 »
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Myself & Swmbo both saw a Large Black Panther  beside a hedgerow in a field sloping down to the road just outside Two Bridges on Dartmoor. We were touring the area in 1998 & reported the sighting immediately as it was so close to Habitation. Before anyone asks, we were both stone cold sober & it was DEFINATELY a Panther! The Police took our details but gave the impression they thought we had stayed too long at Buckfast Abbey earlier in the day! ::) ;D


Phyliss, Phyliss, Phyliss..... no one believes you mate...  :-? :-? :o :-/
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #9 on: 02 February 2011, 21:12:17 »
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #10 on: 02 February 2011, 21:14:26 »
I was driving from Chobham over to Lyne not so long ago when a wallaby hopped across the road in front of the car.

I knew it was a wallaby as the local constabulary had been looking for it for a long time following various reports - had escaped from some circus or other.
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #11 on: 02 February 2011, 21:17:29 »
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Myself & Swmbo both saw a Large Black Panther  beside a hedgerow in a field sloping down to the road just outside Two Bridges on Dartmoor. We were touring the area in 1998 & reported the sighting immediately as it was so close to Habitation. Before anyone asks, we were both stone cold sober & it was DEFINATELY a Panther! The Police took our details but gave the impression they thought we had stayed too long at Buckfast Abbey earlier in the day! ::) ;D


Phyliss, Phyliss, Phyliss..... no one believes you mate...  :-? :-? :o :-/
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Don't they!!!! :o
I bet they believe you carry the bananas home from the supermarket in your keks though! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #12 on: 02 February 2011, 21:29:38 »
did you know that a Panther isn't actually a specific animal - its just any large cat that happens to be all black (or pink of course)  :y

courtesy QI ages ago  ;)
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #13 on: 02 February 2011, 21:32:50 »
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did you know that a Panther isn't actually a specific animal - its just any large cat that happens to be all black (or pink of course)  :y

courtesy QI ages ago  ;)



Actually B, no I didn't know that :y
But I do know I wouldn't have argued the point with the bugger we saw! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
« Reply #14 on: 02 February 2011, 22:22:03 »
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Yep, biggest breeding colony of African green parakeets is Bushey Park near Hampton Court, but spreading all over the Southeast  African Greys also. ::)

African greys...they are worth hundreds..well a couple at least   :y
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