Having spotted the addition of the smaller Porbeagle shark to the gourmet menu of Great Whites last week, this week an Irish Shark came under attack. Shark Hanlon received a ten-month ban for being stupidly unaware of the dangers of being rural. Total story: one of the yard’s horses was found dead in its paddock, probably from a heart attack. The carcass was quickly loaded into a trailer and taken off to - I suspect, the Hounds - or, as was reported, a licenced disposal facility. I assume that to save time, he’d said he’d take it over there without an available collection. Shark thought he had adequately covered the carcass with a tarp… he hadn’t. The unsecured tarp quickly blew off on the road, and revealed the rather grisly picture of a dead dobbin on a trailer towed behind a Shark Hanlon two-box with its distinctive “#teamhewick” mark. This allowed the man who followed it for some way to film and share his horror and disgust with the whole world.
As you know, I have views about the purpose and abuse, dangers and futility, harm and corruption of 75% of all social media, especially when the shock horror, moral grandstanding, and smug superiority of Mr Gregory Ignatius Thumbelina—or perhaps he was another G.I.T—is merely a tool to squeeze a little bung out of his strongly held moral views.
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