UK's biggest earthworm found

[Mr Bones]

Don't know if anyone else has commented already on this but the UK's biggest earthworm has just been found. Weighing 26g with a length of 40cm it was sent to the Natural History Museum where in true Victorian style they killed it to put it on show.
Giant earthworm is a record breaker - BBC News

I feel quite sad about this, earthworms can live for 15 years. What about if they'd stuck it in a glass sided wormarium.

[Nicos]

Those were my exact thoughts!
Surely they could have waited till it had died of old age...and had more babies?

[Alison]

When I heard the first part of the story I thought it had just unfortunately died and to be honest was quite disgusted that they'd killed it.

[WPG]

Yes, I watched the interview with the museum on Breakfast TV, and was quite shocked to hear it had been killed off in the prime of life, just to become part of a collection. The interviewers were quite taken aback about it too, they'd assumed it had died naturally in transit.

[mrbadexample]

This was my best one but I chose not to kill it.

[craftymarie]

Oh I'm sad to read this now. For goodness sake why did they need to kill it will it now also encourage other people to start digging up worms and killing them to try and break the record. What a terrible example to set.

[1Bee]

We get some whoppers on our plot. I like them, but some of them are big enough to make me take a double step backwards!

[vixylix]

ooh I found a whopper today - he's safely in the raspberry patch now though. I might call him Dave in honour of the first

[The poly tunnel poet]

Well that's that then, no matter what I find unless it is dead, I ain't sending it there to them.

Perhaps next time a Zoo!