Underthinking Fox Hunting

So recently I read this story about a Belarussian man who got shot by a fox while hunting. Now, I don't know much about foxes, but I don't recall them having opposable thumbs, let alone rifles to shoot humans.

Apparently the foxes in Belarus have adapted to modern life

As it turns out the fox managed to pull the trigger on the gun, while the hunter was trying to finish the wounded fox off with the butt of his rifle. This raises two questions

1/. Why was he trying to finish off the fox with the butt of his rifle, how expensive are bullets in Belarus?

$25000 for 6 bullets?

Okay so it turns out they are quite expensive, no wonder he was trying to bludgeon the fox. It's actually a wonder there was even a bullet in the gun, for the fox to shoot him?

2./ How slowly was he attempting to finish the fox off with the butt of his rifle, that the fox could grab the trigger?

Was this guy just placing the gun on the fox's head and hoping this would be enough to kill it. I can't claim to have killed many animals by hitting them on the head, but I would imagine you would need to use quite some force. Otherwise a lot of people's childhood would be a lot more traumatic

Young Billy didn't know it, but she was about to kill Sparky.

Although to give this guy credit at least he was trying to kill the fox himself, upon researching this post, I looked into fox hunting. Like most of you I am sure, the fox hunting I am familiar with is the people in the red jackets riding horses, following a pack of hounds.

"Alright, which one of you ate my horse"

I always assumed the guys on the horses were following the hounds to find a fox so they could shoot it. Just using the hounds to flush the fox out. Well as it turns out the hounds kill the fox, so really all the people are doing is following a dog around while it hunts. I think this just goes to show how much more people love dogs than cats.

"F*** you guys, I hunt too. You never follow me with your stupid horses"

It also makes me think, if the people are just following dogs hunting foxs, maybe the animal right activists are are blaming the wrong thing, its not the people on the horse that are the problem.

This lady knows who the real criminals are.

Underthinking Electrician

So for those of you unaware for the reason I did not post much or at all in December, I was finishing off the first draft of my maters thesis, which I will hopefully complete this month. Currently my supervisor is reading over it, so I have a little bit of time to write things.
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One of the incidents during the month of December that almost made me write was the day the underthinking electrician turned up.
As you may or not be aware a lot of my thesis relies on me running simulations that take from a couple of hours to a couple of days to run.

I trained this cat to let me know when things were done

The day began as any other day, with me waking up and remembering I am not a young billionaire drug baron

"Where are those minions?"

After the shock has subsided, I go get some breakfast and head into work, as I entered the entrance to my office something was different there was an open newpaper and some tools. This seemed different then normal, but they weren't in my office so I thought no more on it, until I got into my office, and my computer wouldn't turn on. Panic started to set in, my entire thesis was on this and I had not updated my backup files for a while.
I could not for the life of me work out was wrong, and was this close to calling in CSI to figure out if there was foulplay a foot

"I can be there friday..."

But just then the Underthinking electrician returned, nonchalantly whistling a tune and swinging an extension cord. I stopped this jovial fellow to ask if he had any clues as to why my computer was not working, he said he didn't have a clue......oh wait I flicked a few of the switches off at the main switch board maybe your computer was on one of those. Seemed reasonable and after playing around with the switchboard my computer roared back to life.

PPPHhhheeeewww!!

This is all fine and you are now wondering why this electrician deserves to be called an underthinker. Well I enquired as to why he had been turning the power swtiches off, was he doing some safety checks or something

"Beat that score on solitaire Jim."

No, apparently he had settled down for his morning tea and to read the newspaper, and apparently the coke machine in the entrance was too loud for him and he needed to shut the noise off. Either I am deaf, or this guy has the most sensitive ears in the world.

"The Decibal reading is off the charts, sitting here is the equivalent of eating under a jumbo jet."

So instead of turning it off at the wall, this delightful chap had decided he was a professional he could use the mains, I mean who would think in an office building containing statisticians anything important would be using the power right now?

Young Fred Williams works on Doctoral thesis using the latest technology

And really he was hired to do something electrical in the building surely his morning tea is on his own time and he should go sit in his van to read his paper, if the building was that annoying for him? or move to one of the several public areas off the entrance to read his paper?

Luckily for this man, nothing was affected by his actions, otherwise his underthinking could have lead to far different results...

"Looks like another case of postgraduate rage Fred"