the stupid thing people do for fun ?

Zed · **on:** June 14, 2011, 04:04:03 PM

I went out for a long mountain bike ride today, while out i stoped at a place i always stop at for break, it had been set fire too and was all burnt down, i decided to go over to canford heath where they recently had a bad fire caused by some stupid people with no respect for this lovely countryside, while there i got chatting to the volunteers from dorset wildlife trust, i had a interesting chat with the main guy from DWT i said i would sighn up to help, while carrying my bike through a section where the path has burn away i found a grass snake, i called them over and they put him carefully in a box to re-home him, they told me that i had found the only live grass snake so far $:-\$ i was happy i found him for them, i cant wait to help some more, i took a few pics but sadly my camera ran out of space,

where i always stop

a kind of before and after pic

after

Zed · **Reply #1 on:** June 14, 2011, 04:15:40 PM

Here is a nice pic,

Zed · **Reply #2 on:** June 14, 2011, 07:38:00 PM

sorry i wrote canford heath and its upton heath

here is a link to the DWT site for more info this subject,
http://www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/

dks · **Reply #3 on:** June 14, 2011, 09:36:22 PM

Fire is really catastrophic, you are lucky you don't get many where you live because of the wet climate.
However, with the UK weather lately, fires are bound to occur more frequently.

ryan1835 · **Reply #4 on:** June 14, 2011, 11:54:18 PM

what utter smurfs, when i was camping in woods at the weekend we used an old metal wheel barrow to have our fire in as to not cause damage (its tyre had long gone so we were okay)

Pacu · **Reply #5 on:** June 15, 2011, 01:44:46 AM

29er mtbs?

Zed · **Reply #6 on:** June 15, 2011, 10:05:56 AM

Quote from: Pacu on June 15, 2011, 01:44:46 AM

29er mtbs?

nope 26ers

im not into the 29 thing, although im working on my GT zaskar project at the moment but need a lot of parts to finnish it, i would rather off road on a cyclo cross bike if i had the extra cash, i prefer drop bars

Doraemon · **Reply #7 on:** June 17, 2011, 12:37:01 AM

Ok when I first saw the title of this thread I thought it was about people doing pranks on each other or simply those "fail" videos you see around...

But you're saying that entire patch was intentionally burnt down... that's just sad.

I take public transport and recycle stuff whenever I can but then there's always these people around... they have no respect for nature man...