PEOPLE who live in glass houses should not throw stones, even wildly inaccurate ones.
Tom Fell of the Countryside Alliance (Citizen Letters, last week), referred to a hunt monitor who was fined for harassing members of a hunt in the Midlands. Stretching my imagination, I think you must mean me, Mr Fell.
Eighteen months ago, I harassed' a West Midlands hunt by being involved in a minor accident on the A3400, when a small motor cycle driven by a hunt follower travelling at slow speed glanced off my almost static vehicle.
He and the bike travelled a few yards before gracefully and slowly sliding a few feet down a small incline at the side of the road, still upright and without injury.
At the time, the A3400 was clogged with hunt followers' vehicles and many were eager to make a statement, whereas I had no witnesses to corroborate my view.
As the followers surrounded my vehicle, I managed to lock the doors before they tried to open them. The video I captured through the glass shows aggressive behaviour, both physical and verbal. This video can be made available, and shows real harassment.
I could give many other examples, and conveniently can do so via Judy Gilbert, to whom Mr Fell was replying. Earlier this year she was assaulted by a follower of the same hunt, and a colleague managed to capture video evidence before she too was assaulted.
As a consequence, two hunt followers received formal police cautions.
Mr Fell says that we are the ones prepared to endanger both animals and people'. Yet during last season we captured video of many occasions of hunt hounds out of control on roads, householders distressed as hounds rampaged through their gardens and more. Glass houses, Mr Fell, Glass houses.
Peter Bunce, Protect Our Wild Animals, Bucks
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