Distressed cock whipped out of wheelie bin

I'm disappointed

That no mention was made of the business of the "poultry farmer"

Her youtube video's are epic!

Gloucestershire

People 'round there are always putting their cocks in inappropiate places.

umm

"if it's without water for 24 hours, it will die within a week"

Just out of interest, what if you rescue it at hour 36 and pump it full of lucozade - will it still die?

"if it's without water for 24 hours, it will die within a week"

That sentence hurts my brain.

And the IT angle is?

Presumably the opportunity to put the word "cock" in a headline...

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.

disgusted that someone has placed a living animal inside a wheelie bin

We regulary used put geeky kids in the wheelie bins.................

oh OK it was me that was put in the wheelie bin. Everybody just laughed even my best friend!

How times have changed now somebody is disgusted by it.

Thank God it was only one cock.

...not a cockatoo, else El. Moderatrix wou'dn't get any serous work done, deflecting the comments.

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?

Strangled

Now if only the perpetrator of this heinous crime had tried to strangle the poor bird first. Imagine the fun El Reg could have had with that one?

I completely understand.

If there was a cockerel anywhere near my house waking me up at the crack of dawn every sodding day, it wouldn't be in a distressed state in a wheelie-bin it would be Sunday lunch.

A bit off topic, but...

If a bird goes 24 hours without water, then you give it water (and whatever else it likes), it will still die later that week?

Tossers

Animal cruelty aside, are you really that bored that you have to go out of your way to put an animal in a giant box, just for kicks? Get a fucking life you retards!

James in our office has requested a photo...

please

Fowl play!

"For anything in the bird world, if it's without water for 24 hours, it will die within a week."

Does that mean they get seven days to say fairwell to all their friends before choosing a cosy spot to curl up... or is the quote just wrong?

'....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.

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".

Wasteful

Throwing away a perfectly good cat and now a rooster? While people are starving in China?

So what...

...happened to recycling, sheesh. Surely it should have gone in the "food waste" bin?

Coq au Bin anyone?

..I'll get my coat!

why ?

@Michael Souris

Why ask what the IT? angle is ? ffs! it's in odds & sods, which tends to not be about IT at all but slightly weird & run stories to alleviate the boredom of constantly reading IT stories.

Plus, the headline gives it away that there's likely to be no IT? angle, so don't read the f*ing story just to complain about a lack of an IT? angle you DOYLE

Evil birds from hell

Roosters are evil birds from hell. I live on a tiny Caribbean island where farm animals roam free. Chicken and roosters are a plague here. Starting just around midnight, one rooster will wake up and start to call. Not a decent "cock-a-doodle-doo" but a hysteric screaming at the top of its voice, sounding completely distorted. At this, every cock within hearing range will respond to this by doing the same. As does every rooster within hearing range of the responding cocks. This way, it spreads like wild fire all over the island, untill they all are screaming. After twenty minutes or so, it dies down. This process repeats itself all through the night at approximately one hour intervals. Needless to say, I try to kill this vermin whenever I can. Problem however is, they are armour plated. I shoot at them with an air gun. If you don't get really close to them or give them a proper head shot, pellets have no effect on them. I can shoot through two layers of a can, but when shooting at a rooster at the same distance, it just jumps in the air, clucks insulted and trots off. Seriously, the US Army should look in to covering their vehicles in rooster feathers to protect them from IED's. My greatest moment a victory was when a suicidal rooster lunged itself at my jeep and ran under the rear wheels, resulting in a very satisfactory "thud". Ever seen a (seemingly) innocent and cute chick eat a small lizard? Chicken are the devils servants on earth.

(Paris, because she knows a thing or two about..., What? To easy? Never mind...)

Coq au Bin

Sorry.

Animals in recepticles

Schrödinger did it all the time with poison and radioactive elements and no-one complained.

Cock and Bull story

Free range birds get most of their water from their food. Caged birds have water on tap as they are fed mainly dry meal. If there were a few cabbage stalks, maggots and such in the bin then the cock wouldn't have dehydrated. A cockspur would make short work of a plastic bag.

One wonders if the poultry farmer is really an egg factory operative, rather than a son of the soil.

Putting a cock in a wheelie bin is considered cruel, but 30,000 chickens in a battery shed, to get cheap eggs, is OK? there would be at least 4 battery hens in the area of a bin, with a lot less volume, depending how full the bin was.

(Chicken vaccinator and egg picker in a previous life. I couldn't eat chicken meat or eggs for ten years after.)

I can empathize with the chicken

A few months back I had reason to climb into one of those really big dumpsters (tossed something in by mistake) and I was shocked to discover that they only weld steps onto the outside. The inside is smooth as glass (and a bit slimy). Thought I was a goner! Fortunately I was able to pile up enough trash to climb out before the trash truck arrived. I'm thinking it likely that the chicken made the same mistake that I did.

Wheelie bin

I can get three sheep in my wheelie but they makes a lot of noise and it scares the postman or one cow but I need my friends to help me and where would you get a cow around here ffs.

He read

the story about woman+cat+wheelie bin and thought fuck it I can do more than 17 hours but some do gooder pulled him out before he got in the Guiness book of records.

It's friday and on a clear day you can smell the pub from here.

Re:Evil birds from hell

I've noticed when shooting Magpies and Pigeons the same thing - the feathers seem to have some sort of deflection ability. The key I found out is to use sharps instead of flats - the pellets then go through no problem. The downside being you have to finish them off more often.

A few hours later and it could have been

Cock au Van