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Great Hounds In Need write:

“Two years ago we took approx 30 dogs from a hell hole with the help of other rescues. One died, one had a fractured skull, all had fleas, a few were shut down mentally. We have word of approximately 15 greyhounds who need all our help quickly, two young ones with broken legs (probably never had any veterinary treatment or setting), varying ages and sexes, these poor souls are in an awful state and have been given no chance of life or happiness.

“It’s up to us all to pull together and make this misery end for these lovely gentle dogs. We have no more details and given our experience the last time we won’t get them till the dogs are in our care. Please help, we need spaces fast. Please share this with other rescues time is of the essence. We will also need donations for kennel spaces, thank you. We need you. Contact: info@greathounds.eu or 0870987064.”

Great Hounds In Need

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[Cars clamped on the Mespil Road last summer]

The Irish Times has seen documents showing that clamping company Dublin Street Parking Services have been given a clamping target of 60,000 vehicles a year by Dublin City Council with the council threatening to pay the company less if this target is not met.

In order for the DSPS to reach that target it is offering to pay its 50 staff members a bonus of €2,000 each – should the target be met.

Also, the Irish Times reports that clampers can leave a 10-hour shift after 8.5 hours if they’ve clamped 21 cars.

It reported:

In a letter to staff last year, sent prior to the appointment of the facilitator, the company said the council was not happy with the number of clampings in 2012. “We were expected to deliver approximately 60,000 clamps in 2012. We delivered approximately 54,000. If we continue to deliver 10 per cent less than the service that is expected, the council wants to pay less for the service.”

Dublin City Council set 60,000 target for clampers (Irish Times)

Meanwhile, alternatively:

A man takes matters into his own hands and removes a clamp from his van at an unknown location in Dublin, before driving off.

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[Click on picture to play video]

Via Brian Walsh

Thanks Clampers Outside

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A Danish airforce F-16 pilot launches an AIM-L9/M missile on a training exercise.

Dave Cencotti of The Aviationist adds:

Self-portrait photographs (nowadays known as “selfies“) have always been a must among fighter jocks and you can find thousands taken by military pilots in the most unusal flight conditions. However, selfies taken while launching missiles are much more rare just because firing activities involving the launch of an air-to-air missile don’t take place too often.

Here’s a video of the incident.

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