Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => General Chat => Topic started by: Eamonn on April 07, 2012
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Just a heads up to anyone going Boldering at the Bloody Bridge river that there is a dead sheep at the crossing point near the quarry so try not to swallow any water :-X
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...was bouldering up here last weekend with my wee gang from the boys brigade....boak!!!! :o
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Bokearama
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Bokearama
Agreed! :-X
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We once went on a trip in primary school up the Mournes.... I drunk the water and further upstream we found a sheep not unlike that one. For the next 3 days I had the heap: vomiting, fever, hallucinations... everything .... it was crazy! Beware! ;D ..... although in a strange kind of way after everything was over it felt kind of cleansing. I'd lost a load of weight and it was almost like my system had purged itself. Was left feeling quite serene although it might have just been the residual effects of the fever!
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Right Im heading up tomorrow for a good oul cleanse lol
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We once went on a trip in primary school up the Mournes.... I drunk the water and further upstream we found a sheep not unlike that one. For the next 3 days I had the heap: vomiting, fever, hallucinations... everything .... it was crazy! Beware! ;D ..... although in a strange kind of way after everything was over it felt kind of cleansing. I'd lost a load of weight and it was almost like my system had purged itself. Was left feeling quite serene although it might have just been the residual effects of the fever!
Are you sure it was the water? ;) ;D
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I think someone should report that, so it can be removed.
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And thus the circle of life continues
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You can be sure the farmer knows its there,anyway know one would take responsibly for it,the wildlife will do the job for us,again it's just proves the point about carrying your own water when you can & if you can't ,use the water purification tablets
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Eewwwee.. Lol
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I'd agree with the farmer more than likely knowing its there. The thing is they would then have to pay for it to be disposed off, so its cheaper leaving it be.
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the farmer may not actually know as there are many farmers up there, then you have the problem of which farmer is responsible, i'd like to think that some group would go and remove these as we don't want to put off our tourists by having eyesores like this around, but which group, does MHT do this sort of thing? or is it a council issue?
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Pretty sure it would be a whoever owns the land issue.
But then again if it was public ground they can easily turn around and say well its your sheep you have to get rid of it.
I'd imagine the sheep possibly had an ID tag? And again I'm imagining, but would the owner not check his sheep on a regular basic, which would be a smaller time frame of how long that sheep has been there? Guessing on its decay. Again, don't quote me on any of this, just thoughs.
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National Trust owns the bloody bridge area do you could contact them.
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By the time the buck-passing and denials are over the carcass will be long gone.
Quote- "I drunk the water and further upstream we found a sheep not unlike that one. For the next 3 days I had the heap: vomiting, fever, hallucinations... everything .... it was crazy! Beware! "
I felt like that afetr a day out to Dublin watching the rugby. Didn't drink any water though. Do you think it could have been the Guinness?! ;)
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I know if I come across dumped animals I report them to DARD, who sort it out and prosecute if necessary. But this might be more a case of contacting NIEA water pollution section or Rivers Agency.
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Regardless of whose true responsibility it is to move a carcass. I would believe that any relevant agency - the Rivers Agency (since the carcass is in a river), the National Trust (since the carcass is in their area) should be able to point anyone in the correct direction.
Then again, if any of those organisations were to be told of the issue, then I'd like to think as soon as they were told they'd either 1. do something about it themselves, 2. contact the appropriate organisation to deal with such an issue, or 3. point you in the correct direction.
But unfortunately with 3. they could point you in the correct direction, yes. Though the correct organisation more than likely will point you somewhere else.
The Ferris wheel of life.