Everyone from dumpy school kids to junkies to old people to the city's criminals on death row in HMP Werrington have come together for the annual badger hunt that marks the traditional start to the city's Easter festivities.
"The Easter Badger story goes back centuries, even pre-dating Christianity," Easter eggs-pert Tony Bates said. "It was said that the Easter Badger died for our sins, but was then resurrected on Easter Sunday. The story was stolen by them god-damned Christians. True story."
The Easter Badger traditionally brings chocolate badger eggs to children in exchange for the killing of the badger's natural enemy, the baboon.
To celebrate Easter, Stoke hosts a city-wide badger hunt every year on Good Friday, in the belief that one day, one of the culled badgers will resurrect and show itself to be the second coming of the Easter Badger.
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