Monkey Torture

Author
Discussion

worsy

Original Poster:

5,891 posts

181 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-wor...

WTF?

A British woman has pleaded guilty to being part of a global monkey torture network.

Holly LeGresley, 37, from Kidderminster, was a participant in a private online group that was paying people in Indonesia to kill and torture baby monkeys on video.

Rivenink

3,936 posts

112 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
Ok... I think this is enough internet for today.

This world frown

matrignano

4,585 posts

216 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
Horrid.

Why can't they name one of the defendants, Mr Ape, for safety reasons?

swisstoni

17,854 posts

285 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
I’m really tired of platfom owners being able to hide away from the utter horror that they facilitate and profit from.

Some politicians still can hardly get their heads around the internet at all, some decades after it has become part of life.

You only have to see what passes for tough questions in some parliamentary committees to see that these are not the people to be keeping on top of anything like this.

105.4

4,175 posts

77 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
I’ve of the opinion that most people can be rehabilitated.


But every once in a while you come across a specimen that’s only fit for fertiliser. This is one such case.

I have pretty low morals and a strong constitution, but I actually find this story upsetting and depressing.

Jasandjules

70,417 posts

235 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
Presumably too poor to be able to go Foxhunting. Such people are not fit to remain in society IMHO.

Colonel Cupcake

1,172 posts

51 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
Stuff like this has me rooting for #TeamAsteroid.

J4CKO

42,483 posts

206 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
FFS, some people are just wired wrong.

"Global monkey torture network" does sound like a Peel Session though.


vixen1700

23,895 posts

276 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
Colonel Cupcake said:
Stuff like this has me rooting for #TeamAsteroid.
I feel like that more and more.

What a species. frown

WCZ

10,741 posts

200 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
this has been going on for awhile now and is fairly popular (within the realm of weird horrible stuff), some people are just sick and people in other countries are making lots of money out of it


JuanCarlosFandango

8,156 posts

77 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
I've seen a few of these stories about monkey torture on the BBC and elsewhere, and I don't believe them for a minute. The idea that some Trump supporting redneck in Alabama went on the Internet and recruited a load of Indonesians to torture monkeys just sounds completely made up.

WCZ

10,741 posts

200 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
JuanCarlosFandango said:
I've seen a few of these stories about monkey torture on the BBC and elsewhere, and I don't believe them for a minute. The idea that some Trump supporting redneck in Alabama went on the Internet and recruited a load of Indonesians to torture monkeys just sounds completely made up.
I looked into it awhile ago when Adam Britton got arrested, it's very well documented and there's several groups of people constantly trying to shut down / report these things

Gareth79

7,973 posts

252 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
JuanCarlosFandango said:
I've seen a few of these stories about monkey torture on the BBC and elsewhere, and I don't believe them for a minute. The idea that some Trump supporting redneck in Alabama went on the Internet and recruited a load of Indonesians to torture monkeys just sounds completely made up.
What do you think is made up - the people are completely innocent and the police/CPS fabricated the evidence? Or that the people in Indonesia are sending back faked videos of them doing what was requested?

dundarach

5,290 posts

234 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
Don't know why, however I dislike them monkeys, I blame India Jones!!

However, I'm with others #TeamAsteroid, our species is done!

dukeboy749r

2,891 posts

216 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
JuanCarlosFandango said:
I've seen a few of these stories about monkey torture on the BBC and elsewhere, and I don't believe them for a minute. The idea that some Trump supporting redneck in Alabama went on the Internet and recruited a load of Indonesians to torture monkeys just sounds completely made up.
And today's winner is...

The Wookie

14,031 posts

234 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
What the actual fk, I mean what the actual fk is wrong with some people.

Also how the fk does someone come up with the idea... What were they sat having a cup of tea one morning and the thought popped into their head 'You know what I'd really like to see? Baby monkeys being tortured. There's got to be a market for that'

Book me a place on the first Musk Spacelines trip to Mars, I don't care if it's a dusty, airless sthole, it's at least 100 million miles away from s like that.

gregs656

11,214 posts

187 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
WCZ said:
I looked into it awhile ago when Adam Britton got arrested, it's very well documented and there's several groups of people constantly trying to shut down / report these things
I remember that.

There are some properly fked up people out there.

JuanCarlosFandango

8,156 posts

77 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
WCZ said:
I looked into it awhile ago when Adam Britton got arrested, it's very well documented and there's several groups of people constantly trying to shut down / report these things
Where is it well documented?

The original BBC report is here

https://www.bbc.com/news/extra/Iot1dIWVS5/hunting-...

It reads more like the plot of a lurid crime show with a few screen shots than a well documented report. The brave work of a former lapdancer and a freelance transcriber who are brought together by their unlikely investigations. Reads like total pap.

JuanCarlosFandango

8,156 posts

77 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
Gareth79 said:
What do you think is made up - the people are completely innocent and the police/CPS fabricated the evidence? Or that the people in Indonesia are sending back faked videos of them doing what was requested?
Probably all of it.

Richard-390a0

2,473 posts

97 months

Tuesday 7th May
quotequote all
I'm sure there was a thread about this previously?. Absolutely disgusting either way.