True, there's a good chance you're going to get hanged. But the process is likely to take long enough for you to compose and perform a ballad telling every detail about how you came to be in this predicament.

Same goes if you're a hare, fox, game bird, or any other species in imminent danger of being torn to bits by hounds, shot, or otherwise hunted down. You'll get a chance to sing before you go. Unless you're a wren.

And Save The Whale campaigners don't even get a shout.