Inflating Badgers?

[Panter]

On my commute for the last few weeks I've had to pass an expired Badger.

After a few days it started the inevitable inflation and soon got so large that I got quite nervous passing it in case it blew and I lost a leg or something....

Anyway, after a couple of weeks of anxious journey's it started to harmlessly deflate again so all was well.

Yesterday, and my first commute for over a week, and the buggers reinflated fit to burst again
Do the Highways agency go round inflating them? is that why the road tax (sorry, VED) is so high? are we funding a Badger reinflation division?

 

[Globalti]

The first inflation was probably the gut contents, the second just general decomposition.

Eventually the bits that don't get eaten will just dry up. I found a dried out horse on the Carneddau once, it had fallen into a gully and broken its neck.

 

[bonj2]

you should have just shot it from a distance.

 

[Joe24]

Just think, you could be riding along past it and someone in a car come charging past and get it, popping the badger and spreying the contents all over the road and you.
Throw stones at it from a distance, or poke it with a very long sharp stick

 

[Panter]

I don't have a gun though, unfortunately and I'm not a very good aim with a stone.

Just how long a sharp stick would I need? anyone know the blast radius of a badger? it's quite a big one......

Maybe the bomb disposal people have a sharp stick attachment for one of those robots for defusing Badgers

 

[bonj2]

I think I'm quite sceptical about this. Not quite sure i believe badgers do inflate - i've never seen one

 

[betty swollocks]

Badger badger

They can dance though.

 

[Panter]

I think I'm quite sceptical about this. Not quite sure i believe badgers do inflate - i've never seen one

I'll try and take a picture. From a safe distance, obviously

 

[Fnaar]

Do the Highways agency go round inflating them? is that why the road tax (sorry, VED) is so high?

Yes, that's inflation for you

 

[Arch]

I think I'm quite sceptical about this. Not quite sure i believe badgers do inflate - i've never seen one

Bonj, there must be quite a few things you haven't actually seen, it doesn't mean they don't exist.

They do inflate if they are still airtight (IE not been run over so that the insides come out), although probably not as much as a dead cow would.

 

[Globalti]

I once witnessed a man in Sudan inflating a goat. It had just been slaughtered in the street and he needed to skin it so he cut a small hole in the skin just above its ankle, got down and blew... and blew... and blew the damned thing up, going purple with the veins on his forehead standing out, slapping the inflating carcass to help the skin separate from the body. Impressive, though I was tired so didn't wait around for it to be cooked.

 

[willhub]

I've never seen an inflating badger before, I've only seen them running, I was cycling along at around 22mph one day and this Badger ran across the road then was running along the pavement matching my speed, I thought he wanted a race.

 

[Arch]

I once witnessed a man in Sudan inflating a goat. It had just been slaughtered in the street and he needed to skin it so he cut a small hole in the skin just above its ankle, got down and blew... and blew... and blew the damned thing up, going purple with the veins on his forehead standing out, slapping the inflating carcass to help the skin separate from the body. Impressive, though I was tired so didn't wait around for it to be cooked.

I saw (on telly, not for real) some Mongolians inflating a dead lamb, to get the astrakan off. Hadn't realised astrakan was lamb skin until then. The lamb was relatively small, so it was probably easier than the goat.

 

[dellzeqq]

pigs will puff up like balloons, and then deflate suddenly with the usual noise. Dead pig farts can be quite disconcerting on a dark night. (I've always wanted to write that sentence.)

 

[bonj2]

Bonj, there must be quite a few things you haven't actually seen, it doesn't mean they don't exist.

They do inflate if they are still airtight (IE not been run over so that the insides come out), although probably not as much as a dead cow would.

"if they are still airtight" being the operative word...
I'll believe it when I see it.