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Started by Da6s, October 22, 2009, 07:20:58 PM

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October 22, 2009, 07:20:58 PM Last Edit: October 22, 2009, 09:12:11 PM by Da6s
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/22/2721165.htm


QuoteA small rural town in New Zealand has been forced to cancel one of the highlights on its social calendar - a rabbit-throwing contest.

About 400 people live in Waiau in the South Island. This weekend the town will hold its annual pig hunt.

In previous years a 'rabbit throw' has been organised for the local children, who compete to see how far they can hurl a dead bunny.

But the event is now off, after New Zealand's equivalent of the RSPCA got wind of it.

Animal cruelty inspector Charles Cadwallader says throwing bunnies is sick.

"Do you throw your dead grandmother around for a joke at her funeral?" he asked.

The organiser of the pig hunt, Jo Moriarty, says it is political correctness gone mad.

"You know, the children of the community here are fantastic, they love their animals," he said.

New Zealand has more than 30 million wild rabbits.


I have no words.

Edit: Fixed.
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

AFK

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October 22, 2009, 08:55:33 PM
Now that's a harey situation. 

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

But seriously, um, yeah, I actually don't have anything serious to contribute. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Triple Zero

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October 22, 2009, 10:53:53 PM
Quote from: Da6s on October 22, 2009, 07:20:58 PM
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/22/2721165.htm


QuoteA small rural town in New Zealand has been forced to cancel one of the highlights on its social calendar - a rabbi-throwing contest.

About 400 people live in Waiau in the South Island. This weekend the town will hold its annual pig hunt.

In previous years a 'rabbi throw' has been organised for the local children, who compete to see how far they can hurl a dead rabbi.

But the event is now off, after New Zealand's equivalent of the RSPCA got wind of it.

Animal cruelty inspector Charles Cadwallader says throwing rabbis is sick.

"Do you throw your dead grandmother around for a joke at her funeral?" he asked.

The organiser of the pig hunt, Jo Moriarty, says it is political correctness gone mad.

"You know, the children of the community here are fantastic, they love their animals," he said.

New Zealand has more than 30 million wild rabbis.
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