Brickbat: Crikey!
The South Australian police department says it is investigating an off-duty officer caught on video chasing and throwing rocks at the head of a wombat. In a statement the police force said the wombat was "seriously injured," but several media sources say the animal died.
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The lesson kids, is never create video evidence of questionable or illegal behavior.
Nowdays, there is video wherever you go in public areas. Whether it is security cameras or cell phones.
Or smart trash cans or smart park benches or smart vending machines or smart rocks and flowers and blades of grass – nowadays every damn thing is marketed as a “smart” device and has a camera and a microphone and a WiFi connection. Because it’s smart!
Fun fact. A group of wombats is called a ‘wisdom’.
Had to have that
Your wombat
Had that
Cuddly, but muscular!
Well, if throwing rocks at a wombat is questionable…
…then, pray tell, what IS the right way to combat a wombat?
Every gesture they make is fervent.
With a rat-a-tat-tat? By making them go splat?
By squashing them flat, or perhaps with a bat
That’ll be enough of that!
Stab them with a plastic lung flute.
No, this is a Combat Wombat.
A steel rimmed bowler hat.
Seems like a rodent.
And he didn’t have a name.
Wombats should not look like dogs.
I believe that taking pleasure in torturing small helpless animals is one of the signs of being a psychopath. Whether the cop will get fired or get a promotion is an open question, but it might be a clue as to what sort of police force you’ve got here.
I believe that taking pleasure in torturing small helpless animals is one of the signs of being a psychopath.
I used to laugh my head off every Saturday morning at the torturing of helpless small animals.
Stumbling across a wombat and stoning it until it leaves or dies is not exactly the same as methodically trapping an animal with the intention of vivisecting it.
You understood the difference between make believe and reality. If that had been a film clip instead of low-quality animation, you’d have screamed for your mother. (And they would have needed another Daffy – several times.) When inexpensive animation becomes good enough to pass for real, kiddy cartoons won’t be able to use it unless they adopt much less violent story lines.
Someone who does things like that for real is a psychopath.
I thought a wombat was more bar like – that think is cute as hell! That cop should get no less than 30 years in the slam.
“Back on July 29th [2016] during a golf tournament for the Rensselaer [near Albany NY} Police Department Union, witnesses claimed two officers chased the groundhog until it could no longer run and then ran it over. The pair accused in the alleged incident are officers Tyler Sammon and Matt Spath who remain on paid administrative leave according to Rensselaer Police Chief Rick Fusco.
Although Troy Police and the DEC are not going to bring any charges or violations against the two officers, things aren’t over yet…”
https://www.news10.com/news/dec-closes-investigation-into-officers-in-groundhog-run-over-by-golf-cart-incident/
They killed it with a golf cart.
They killed it with a golf cart.
They did.
And were I the course manager or groundskeeper as long as they didn’t kill it on the course or damage the cart, I’d have thanked them for it.
Oh, municipal park, so they kinda sorta maybe did their job and/or a favor for the tax payers (not that the taxpayers should be on the hood for a golf course).
It’s probably one of the few creatures in Australia that doesn’t try to kill people. As to the police officer it is most likely genetic. His great grandparents were criminals.
He’s Aborigine.
“Indigenous people in South Australia have traditionally killed wombats with rocks and Wirangu-Kokatha elder Jack Johncock said that this right must be preserved.”
Marsupial Lives Matter!
FFS, it’s not like it was somebody’s pet and he shot it in their yard in front of them. Is it a crime for a civilian to stone a wombat to death in Australia? If so, why? Do we have any suggestion that it wasn’t his wombat to kill?
This is a very out-there human interest piece at best.
“several media sources say the animal died”
MORTAL WOMBAT!
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This news is funny in some ways, especially those damn comments. Hurting animals is a bad idea, anyway. But the fact that media makes a hype over such news is the real bad news.