Lions and tigers and pine martens

[nineveh_uk]

This morning was brightened by video of a Swiss pine marten invading a football pitch. It is eventually caught and removed.

A man with the speed and skill to grab a pine marten and who clings on even after being bitten by it, is a man I’d want on my team. It was eventually caught a second time and removed by a gloved goalkeeper.

Comments

[auntyros.livejournal.com]

I'm mostly shocked by the way that they all just stand round looking at the pine marten, doing nothing. But the guys who caught it were brilliant.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Well they can't take their shirts off to throw over it, because that's a bookable offence, and we saw what happened when someone picked one up without hand protection ;-) And they're bloody fast! I admired the animal psychology approach of grabbing it from the side.

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

Marten-catching skills could be used to assess players' fitness to be on the team.

[caulkhead.livejournal.com]

I did wonder how it would have fared on a rugby field.