00:00If you could just tell us your name and where we are today.
00:04Yeah, Mr Robert Hallam, we're in Whaley Bridge.
00:06The shop's called Jack Hallam and Sons and Hallam's Country Sports.
00:09It's a traditional country sports outfitters dealing with all types of country pursuits.
00:15We sell shotguns, rifles, air rifles, various other types of things used for country pursuits, training accessories.
00:23But obviously we do sell shotguns that can be used on organised shoots to shoot pheasants and other birds.
00:30It was last Sunday, about ten past one, I was on my way into Manchester to watch the football for the day with Manchester City.
00:38And then I got a phone call from a friend asking if I'd hung some pheasants outside my shop.
00:43I said, not really, it's not the kind of thing we do.
00:46And he said, well, somebody has. So then I had to look at the CCTV footage and the footage on the camera was what you can see.
00:55It was a very strange character covered in a blue sort of blanket.
01:00And then they were obviously disguising themselves from the camera and hung the pheasants on the front of the shop,
01:05which was a very strange thing to be doing on a Sunday lunchtime.
01:08When I saw the CCTV footage, I mean, it was so bizarre seeing somebody stooped over with a sort of cane or a walking stick.
01:16And yeah, just to see somebody doing that in front of the shop was something I've never seen before.
01:22I wonder what kind of person had come up with an idea to do such a thing, really.
01:25It was a bit of a shock and amazement, I suppose.
01:28I'd like to think it was just somebody doing some kind of daft joke, not a particularly funny one in our view.
01:34It doesn't look good for the business.
01:37But yeah, I mean, they could have a hundred different reasons why they thought they were doing something,
01:41either to help or to be clever, I'm not sure.
01:44I'd much prefer it never happened again, not to my shop or to any other business.
01:48If they want to come forward, we're more than happy to deal with it internally.
01:52But it would be nice to find out who the person actually is.
01:55What's happened obviously portrays the shooting industry in a bit of a negative way and the way pheasants are treated.
02:00And we're always trying to champion eating the quarry that's been shot.
02:04Pheasant is a very, very good food to eat.
02:07And it's also organic.
02:09And it's just a superfood, basically, like a lot of game is and should be promoted a lot more.
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