Hunters seat

misswinterfinch asked the question to Sunday's Blip; what the ladder was for?
Well today's Blip is taken in the opposite direction from Sunday's Blip and is a luxury version of the hunter's seat. But of course misswinterfinch is right, they make an excellent Blip lookout - just need the camera to match!
The hunting laws & rights are very complicated. Firstly you need a hunting licence which takes about 6 months if you take part in a 1 o2 evenings/week course. Costs around 2000? (2700 USD) and there is a 3 day test - written, verbal & practical. Only then can you think about hunting but need the OK from someone who has the hunting rights for an area. Once you have done this for 3 years you can try to rent a hunting area. And now it gets really complicated! Depending on the type of rights you can be held responsible for damage done by wild animals to trees (deer biting young trees) and fields (eating maize or digging up fields looking for worms by wild pigs); you may be responsible 24hrs day/365 for going to the scene of any collisions between vehicles and wild animals either shooting wounded animals, searching for injured animals that have left the scene and removing the carcase (it is illegal for anyone else eg the car driver to do this). In Germany there are reckoned to be about 250,000 such accidents a year but only a small % are registered. If you want to claim from your insurance you need a signed document from the police or responsible hunter that it was a wild animal and not a cat, dog, horse etc! And of course you have to pay an annual rent for the rights! However you can keep and sell the meat & carcass. In the case of wild pigs you need to have it tested for atomic fallout contamination from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Our local hunter shot two huge pigs a few years ago & it cost him a lot of money as they were above the limit & had to be specially disposed of.