You can no longer hunt foxes, but humans are OK
(NEWSER) - Fox hunting was banned in England, but you can still enjoy a sporting day on your horse, with a pack of dogs hunting a slightly different type of game: man. The Coakham Hunt began its manhunts—“for fun,” its website reassures—long before fox hunting and other types of hunting became illegal in 2005, the Washington Post reports. There are a few differences, of course, between this still-legal pastime and a typical foxhunt: Hunters use bloodhounds, not foxhounds; it’s less dangerous—as men, unlike foxes, tend not to dart across roads or train tracks; and the quarry, of course, does not end up dead. More»
