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nivek

As Above So Below
That one didn't want to play - 'video unavailable'. Cat say something bad about Biden and get hisself pulled off YankTube?

I guess the poster of the video has it remote locked, you have to play it in YouTube...

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The shadow

The shadow knows!
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Snowdrifts at night photo by my daughter Debbie useing a Canon T6i
 

1963

Noble
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This is the exact moment when chief project blue book debunker J Allen Hynek realised that he had been wrong about extraterrestrial visitation right here on Earth. :Whistle:

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
looks like some pretty short Wookies and Sith Lords to me, unless Hynek was also a basketball player and I didn't know it.
 

1963

Noble
Who the hell has a lioness in their backyard!
Hi Kirk... well actually believe it or not [I know it's true but sometimes struggle believe it myself lol.] I grew up just a couple of hundred yards away from such a surreal situation :p. .... It wasn't actually in his backyard, but there was this 'unconventional' scrapyard owner called Dennis Higgs who actually kept a Lion called 'Ben' from being a cub to old age and eventual death in his scrapyard! ... I remember that Ben had a large cage that he was kept in most of the time and was often allowed to be pegged out on a long and very thick chain/tether in the yard when it was closed for business. The sound of it's 'roar' was commonplace all around our village [even the dogs learned to ignore the noise eventually] ... though I now find the thought of this a little scary and dangerous ... at the time, me and all of the kids in our village thought it was cool, and we quickly got used to the sight and sound of 'Old Ben'. and all were saddened to here that he'd passed away when we'd grown up. ....
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It’s a story that’s almost too crazy to be true. However as often is the case, reality is indeed stranger than fiction and the legend of Ben the Cudworth Lion endures in Cudworth today. The not so tall tale of a lion kept in a scrap yard in Cudworth, Barnsley as a ‘guard dog’. Owned by Dennis Higgs, who was known locally as the Lion Man, a fascinating character who made a fortune dealing scrap metal. The lion was said to be kept in a compound near the main road and was brought as a burglar deterrent. One can only wonder if any ‘unlucky’ scoundrels ended up hunted down by Ben.
Mr Higgs was quoted in the South Yorkshire post in 1975 saying:
“It gives people quite a shock, when I take them to see my ‘cat’ but Ben is quite friendly at the moment”.
It was said you could hear Ben roar from miles away and that local children would dare each other to stroke him through the bars of his cage. It was a different time for sure but maybe a few Lions would keep the few local ruffians in check today. Not without its controversy, Ben become something of a local attraction, as people passed by on the bus to Barnsley Town Centre.
Rob Brenton wrote about the Cudworth Lion in his book, “Sharks!: Paul Sykes & The Straits of Johor”…
“The scrapyard was owned by another character and local business man Dennis Higgs, he kept a lion he’d bought for two hundred and forty quid in the Exchange & Mart as a guard dog at the scrapyard and that was no rumour trust me”.
By all accounts Mr Higgs is spoken of fondly in the area and the myth of the Cudworth Lion is remembered with a mix of wonder and disbelief.
We recently shared a post of the Cudworth Village News Facebook page and had a great many comments….
“I remember the lion, used to look for it every time we went past going from Cudworth to town.”
“My dad rented the bottom yard off Dennis. When I was down yard one Saturday (I was only about 8 years old) me and my Dads mate’s son went up to and was stroking it through the cage but only because it was laid down with its back to us, Dennis saw us and told my dad. he gave us a right ******** (a telling off)”
To add another twist to the tale Dennis Higgs now in his 80’s was in the news recently as America’s latest oil baron after a ranch he’d purchased in Wyoming near the town of Cheyenne had struck oil. A larger than life legend for sure.
I’ll leave you a bad pun:
What do you get if you cross a lion with a guard dog?
A terrified postman!
I’ll get my coat and please remember to keep a watch out for any rouge Lions when looking for car parts in Cudworth.

... Old 'Higgsie' was a bit of an unusual character from my youth [he's sadly gone now] and also made the news about 10 years ago [not long before he died ] , for another [very different] but slightly incredible story, ... I't turns out that 'Old Higgsie' was just about to become Barnsley's very own version of J R Ewing..... lol...
HE made a fortune dealing scrap metal in a Yorkshire town, but yesterday octogenarian Dennis Higgs revealed he was in line for a new payday after becoming America's latest oil baron.
Barnsley's Lion Man hits black gold in Wild West | Yorkshire Post

Cheers Buddy.
 
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