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The Animal Liberation Front is being condemned by animal lovers for releasing 6,000 mink from a fur farm in southern England. The mink are reported to have “slaughtered” numerous house pets and farm animals, and local authorities have authorized people to kill any mink they see. “They are damned vicious and I had to bash them,” said Jenny Sutton, “a housewife who became a local hero” after killing several of the animals with a shovel. The farm was near the New Forest, a wildlife preserve, and conservationists fear many of the wild animals there will be killed by the mink. Area residents compared the ALF’s action to an “own goal” — shooting a soccer goal into your own net. (AFP) ...In overtime. During the finals.