severed the vocal chords of 50,000 pack mules to stop them from braying and giving away the Brits positions?
2006-09-08 10:28:05 · 22 answers · asked by button mushroom 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Yes this is quite true, the army vet corps did it. My father in law was a hussar and he told me.
2006-09-08 10:30:07 · answer #1 · answered by tucksie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow. Very smart and tactical. I give props to the Brits for coming up with such an ingenious plan.
For those of you screaming animal cruelty, what is your problem? The lives of hundreds of thousands of British soldiers or the vocal cords of fifty thousand mules? To even utter animal cruelty, you have so callously condemned humanity. Would it make you happier if the mules could f------ talk and end up getting thousands of Allied soldiers killed? Thats why animal rights activists sometimes makes me want to throw up.
2006-09-08 17:45:04 · answer #2 · answered by Pluck That Chicken 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably after all who needs all that braying, how could the chaps have heard the whistles to go over the top with all that racket going on. It was probably the madman Haigh's idea or some other inbred idiot
2006-09-08 19:21:19 · answer #3 · answered by cbjdot 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2006-09-08 17:31:05 · answer #4 · answered by Zen 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not necessarily animal cruelity. I'm sure they gave the mules pain meds. People are still doing it to dogs, today (not that I approve, I don't). A good stratagy.
2006-09-08 18:54:19 · answer #5 · answered by MotherBear1975 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Royal Veterinary Corps did it. Incidentally the Germans & French also did it (probably others as well).
2006-09-09 03:50:00 · answer #6 · answered by Pretorian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jings - sounds like another opening for the injury lawyers.
2006-09-11 11:40:04 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats quite clever really
2006-09-09 12:03:51 · answer #8 · answered by HHH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never even heard such a thing. Not even in all the history lessons I had.
2006-09-08 17:30:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why not?It would have been a sensible thing to do in a war situation.
2006-09-08 17:34:12 · answer #10 · answered by michael k 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋