And a lot of people what they do is they bury their head in the sand thinking hey, I've done the right thing so let them figure out.

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Another of Carman's victims, David Mellor , was described as having "behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts".

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But when you use some of your famous devastating one-liners about people - for example, of David Mellor, "a man who buried his head in the sand like an ostrich thereby exposing his thinking parts" - was that something that personally felt, was it something that you buffed up beforehand?

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The bird had surgery to remove sand from its stomach - which it is thought to have eaten thinking it was snow - before being released with a tracking device.

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He had surgery to remove 3kg (6.6lb) of sand from his stomach, which he is thought to have eaten thinking it was snow, before being released with a tracking device.

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