[FoxT]

Irish Air Force in Cessna Bog Horror Shock!

[Biggins]

Originally Posted by TheChizler

Surely we could be commending them for saving money in this case? The Air Corps would probably be doing pointless exercises anyway as training, it's great that they're being put to proper use. Also can you imagine trying to inspect thousands of acres of bog for change from the ground? You'd have to have dozens of rangers traipsing around by foot for weeks to be as effective as a few hours flying every month or two. The Parks and Wildlife service and Air Corps are showing initiative and great co-operation in doing this, things you don't see much in other services across the country.

Two men in car looking outwards with binoculars might be cheaper and have less carbon admissions too - which we have to pay for in using fuel up/creating pollution too?

[Mr. Rager]

It's like the State thinks they're playing Call of Duty

[TheChizler]

Originally Posted by Biggins

Two men in car looking outwards with binoculars might be cheaper and have less carbon admissions too - which we have to pay for in using fuel up/creating pollution too?

Two men with binoculars can survey thousands of acres of inconsistent terrain from a roadside position - including depressions where cutting might not be as obvious - more effectively than two men with binoculars at 1000 ft?

[Biggins]

Originally Posted by TheChizler

Two men with binoculars can survey thousands of acres of inconsistent terrain from a roadside position - including depressions where cutting might not be as obvious - more effectively than two men with binoculars at 1000 ft?

You have a point to be fair - but the whole thing just seems a bit daft when as someone pointed out, much more of our bogs is being exported!
...But lets send up what is an expensive plane per hour just to catch the little guy who can at the end of the day only cut so much himself?

It just seems a tad weird and funny, something typical 'Orish' thats all...

[TheChizler]

Originally Posted by Biggins

You have a point to be fair - but the whole thing just seems a bit daft when as someone pointed out, much more of our bogs is being exported!
...But lets send up what is an expensive plane per hour just to catch the little guy who can at the end of the day only cut so much himself?

It just seems a tad weird and funny, something typical 'Orish' thats all...

It does seem a bit daft on first impressions all right! I suppose the reaction depends on your POV on protected bogs and whether it's worth the risk of fines or not.

[charlemont]

I wonder are there any SAM7's still hidden around...

[Born to Die]

IF we don't control it were will all the "willo the wisps" go?

Conservation has swayed me.

[patwicklow]

They can take the man out of the bog but cant take the the bog out of the man. Just more and more EU control when is this country going to stand up
and take no more of this were losing freedom of the land day by day, A god given right to us and its been taken away Let the people cut turf it has been done for thousands of years..

[Thrill]

Originally Posted by charlemont

I wonder are there any SAM7's still hidden around...

Bog cutters - The Irish Al-Qaeda.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...worth/turf.jpg

[humbert]

News sources lie and manipulate. This is the cheapest ****tiest plane being used to survey huge tracts of bog for a relatively minor crime.

This is a good and admirable thing. I only wish there was the same innovation and diligence in all/any other areas of government.

[Biggins]

Originally Posted by humbert

...plane being used to survey huge tracts of bog for a relatively minor crime. .

...Thats what I find funny/odd!
For what really is a very small crime - especially (but not only) when compared to the much BIGGER amounts taken out in official act - the waste, if not the further expense seems a tad over-reactionary for the small amount that one person is going to take away?

[mikom]

And still not one banker jailed......

Foot some turf Paddy........ you're busted.

[oppenheimer1]

Originally Posted by Biggins

Could they not just pay some bog cutters each part of that instead of sending up the plane?

It would make more sense? I honestly dunno - it just seems funny but daft at the same time.

Thats exactly what they're doing. The people who cut turf on these bogs are being compensated - handsomely.

[bnt]

There are bogs, and then there are bogs. Some are protected, and not just because of natural beauty or wildlife. The peat layer is shallow, and cutting in the wrong place can lead to whole hillsides coming down when it rains e.g. as shown here. Not good.