So you probably have heard about the English Fox Hunt... where men ride horses and follow their dogs who chase down the poor helpless fox. But have you ever heard about the Eden Valley Fox Hunt where men chase foxes with snowmobiles and catch them in their bare hands by their tip of their tails. Yes, as bizarre as this may sound, it really happened just outside the town of Eden Valley, MN. USA.
This video story will be one you don't soon forget. A big thank you goes out to the Plantenberg family of Richmond, MN for sharing this story with DigElogSAUKRPAPIDS.
Here's the lyrics to the song that goes with the story:
The Hill-Dillies
Eden Valley Fox Hunt
Yoiks! Tally-ho and let 'em go!
In the town of Eden Valley, they say
the Chamber of Commerce met one day
to get ideas and find a way
to raise a little dough-ho, dough-ho, dough-ho
to get ideas and find a way
to raise a little dough-ho.
Snowmobile races are lots of fun.
Let's have a little different kind of one.
We'll take a red fox and let him run
and then we'll run him down-oh, down-oh, down-oh.
We'll take a red fox and let him run
and then we'll run him down-oh.
Well, the newspapers, radio and TV
publicized it nationally.
We never had so much publicity
since Hubert left Washing-town-oh, town-oh, town-oh.
We never had so much publicity
since Hubert left Washing-town-oh.
The (?) with the Governor met
and to Eden Valley they sent a threat.
If the race goes on, to our regret,
we'll have to shut it down-oh, down-oh, down-oh.
If the race goes on, to our regret,
we'll have to shut it down-oh.
Mr. Plantenberg from the Chamber said
our Chamber treasury is in the red
you can tell LeVander he can just drop dead
and the show it must go on-oh, on-oh, on-oh
you can tell LeVander he can just drop dead
and the show it must go on-oh.
Well, Governor LeVander was thus involved,
a very strange situation evolved.
The mystery is still unsolved
where the $98 million went-ho, went-ho, went-ho
The mystery is still unsolved
where the $98 million went-ho.
Now, the humane society sent a man
to implement the Governor's plan.
Mr. Davis stood as the foxes ran
with his tears all a-tricklin' down-oh, down-oh, down-oh.
Mr. Davis stood as the foxes ran
with his tears all a-tricklin' down-oh.
Perhaps you don't know how it feels
bein' chased by 20 snowmobiles?
Gettin' ground up in the bogie wheels,
bleedin' all over the snow-ho, snow-ho, snow-ho.
Gettin' ground up in the bogie wheels
and bleedin' all over the snow-ho.
Well, it's nice to know our taxes are used
to see that foxes aren't abused.
The Minnesota Indians were quite amused
as they sat in their huts and they froze-oh, froze-oh, froze-oh.
The Minnesota Indians were quite amused
as they sat in their huts and they froze-oh.
Stearns county, as a last resort,
took the Eden Valley to Chamber to court.
Doerner threw it out for lack of support
'cause the foxes didn't show-ho, show-ho, show-ho.
Doerner threw the case out for lack of support
'cause the foxes didn't show-ho.
