C'mon people
Surely a better headline woudl have been
"Cock pulled out of dirty box at the last minute"
Distressed cock whipped out of wheelie bin
Animal lovers have lashed out at 'callous criminals' who left a cockerel trapped in a wheelie bin. The Telegraph reports the outrage today, adding that it has raised fears of a wave of copycock cat animal/wheelie bin outrages. Freddie the cockerel was apparently scooped out of a wheelie bin at a block of flats in Gloucester …
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Thursday 7th October 2010 17:14 GMT Anonymous Coward
Outrage
At sunday lunch being dumped in a bin.
In other news, sex pedo murderer get 100hrs community service.
Which one deserved the front of the paper.
Countrys a joke along with its justice system.
Its a fucking bird, kentucky fried chicken kills hundreds of thousands a day. Isn't that worth the front page. No, neither was this.
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Friday 8th October 2010 06:29 GMT Annihilator
Y'know...
I'm not convinced it even happened. I think the opportunity for selling a "cock in a bin" alongside a "pussy in a bin" was too much to pass up. Look at the sources, it doesn't even say the RSPCA rescued the bird, only that a mysterious someone rescued the bird.
I smell a cunning stunt..
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Thursday 7th October 2010 18:35 GMT bluesxman
Title as per icon
"if it's without water for 24 hours, it will die within a week" ... Do they mean that if it's waterless for 24 hours it's irrevocably damaged and will die regardless of any re-hydration attempts? Sounds a little weird.
Also, if the Telegraph was so worried about copycats, perhaps they should not have reported on it and thus wouldn't have put the idea into the heads of miscreants who are so inclined to do such things? Just a thought.
Sadly animal cruelty is goes on all the time, without it making the papers; what's so special about this case?
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Thursday 7th October 2010 21:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
'....in our experience'
'...cockerels are always slightly agitated'. Um....and of what, pray tell, does your experience consist?
Is this something to do with the PFY's aviary of carrion eaters at Vulture Central? Or a previous BOFH cock fighting experience that was unfortunately cancelled after one of the combatants misunderstood the whole 'cock' fighting proposition and had to be hospitalised after overdosing on viagra?
Paris, cos she knows all about fighting cocks. Possibly.
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Thursday 7th October 2010 21:16 GMT Mike Shepherd
No, but seriously...
"He was found just hours before the binmen were due...". Hmm. Hours? Not exactly "snatched from the jaws of death", then?
"The animal was in an distressed state". Hmm...Put a bird in the dark and it will just go to sleep. You can see it when there's a total solar eclipse.
"An RSPCA inspector told the Telegraph: "I am disgusted. I care about life forms. I'm taking a bath this evening and am off right now to say requiem mass for the bacteria".
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Monday 11th October 2010 08:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
And who will you give it to?
Not only which, the point of the question was why an animal is more important than our human problems in the world. I don't feel antagonism for animals but for gods sake, we have people starving, dying, getting molested by the pope and his ilk; but hey save the whales gets more attention than any of these issues.
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Monday 11th October 2010 08:40 GMT Sarah Bee
Re: And who will you give it to?
Don't be daft. It's OK to give a shit about these things inbetween giving a shit about all the others. You can't rank everything in order of ultimate importance.
It's very glib to suggest animal issues get more attention than human ones - people just come out with that when they want to wring their hands over how no one cares about what they should. Except that they do. Just not everything all at once. If you did that you couldn't get out of bed for angst.
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