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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Cheese Traps?

It figures: It's always the beer, brats and cheese curds that get us.

Prison guards found themselves over-run - when two badgers dug their way into jail.

One warder was left with a gaping hand wound after being bitten, according to a report in the Sun. And his colleague fled to safety after the creatures tunnelled in under a perimeter fence.

Managers at Category C Erlestoke Prison in Wiltshire had been powerless to get rid of them because badger setts are protected by law.

The badgers were free to wander the grounds for months after breaking in earlier this year. But after the attack on the guard, prison chiefs called in the experts - the department for food and rural affairs.


Via Colossus.