Marwell Zoo break in

[Diderot]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-64...

I was just watching BBC South Today with Mrs Diderot when this bizarre package came on. Incredulous. Normally parochial stories abound on the programme, but not tonight: apparently 2 utter fking cocktard morons broke into Marwell Zoo near Southampton. Footage shows one of the s filming himself throwing a bottle at a Giraffe which hits the animal on the neck (and later it gashes its leg by kicking a fence because of anxiety), and a Tiger is apparently very ‘agitated’, and a Penguin enclosure tampered with. £750 fine for each.

It’s a shame the Tiger wasn’t let loose on both of them (or the Giraffe for that matter). What kind of absolute waste of oxygen does this kind of thing? What so-called mind thinks up this kind of thing? And only £750 as a punishment?

[Catastrophic Poo]

The giraffe would have been good, have you seen a fking angry giraffe?!? Like a tall Mike Tyson.

[Frik]

Between this and the tornado they've not had a lot of luck recently. It's a nice zoo, too as they go.

[off_again]

Came for the Darwin Award candidate and was disappointed....

Damn, 750 quid for being a dick? Thats not much. Hardly a deterrent. Let me guess, unemployed and will do a payment plan for the fine? I could be wrong of course, but there is a 'profile'.

[vikingaero]

The biggest bellend is the defence:

James Riley, defending Green, said he was "at his core an animal lover" who had not deliberately attempted to cause suffering.

Not deliberately attempted to cause suffering? His client deliberately cut a fence to gain entry. He deliberately threw items at the animals. Is James Riley a moron? I really hate the legal system.

[redback911]

Good job, Nathan Daniels and Bradley Green, you have significantly reduced your employment opportunities in the foreseeable future.

[Richard-390a0]

redback911 said:

Good job, Nathan Daniels and Bradley Green, you have significantly reduced your employment opportunities in the foreseeable future.

Which I'm sure they're more than happy about. Why work whilst the benefit system is so easily fleeced.

[RizzoTheRat]

Shame they didn't try that here, a hyena escaped from a safari park near us the other day, I suspect that would have made short work of anyone who threw a bottle at it.

[Triumph Man]

off_again said:

Came for the Darwin Award candidate and was disappointed....

Damn, 750 quid for being a dick? Thats not much. Hardly a deterrent. Let me guess, unemployed and will do a payment plan for the fine? I could be wrong of course, but there is a 'profile'.

...and people who know them will defend them as "lovable rogues"

[Catastrophic Poo]

Richard-390a0 said:

redback911 said:

Good job, Nathan Daniels and Bradley Green, you have significantly reduced your employment opportunities in the foreseeable future.

Which I'm sure they're more than happy about. Why work whilst the benefit system is so easily fleeced.

I hope Nathan Daniels and Bradley Green don’t find this comes back to bite them.

Nathan Daniels and Bradley Green Really should have thought harder.

[Jim the Sunderer]

"James Riley, defending Green, said he was "at his core an animal lover" who had not deliberately attempted to cause suffering."

Clearly bks, he's an ADHD neet ratbag that doesn't care about anything other than Monster drinks and online pornography.

Edited by Jim the Sunderer on Friday 20th January 11:06

[Diderot]

Jim the Sunderer said:

"James Riley, defending Green, said he was "at his core an animal lover" who had not deliberately attempted to cause suffering."

Clearly bks, he's an ADHD neet ratbag that doesn't care about anything other than Monster drinks and online pornography.

Edited by Jim the Sunderer on Friday 20th January 11:06

I’m surprised the eejit didn’t suggest that ‘James Riley was concerned that the giraffe was dehydrated so threw it a high energy drink’.

[Dog Star]

Catastrophic Poo said:

The giraffe would have been good, have you seen a fking angry giraffe?!? Like a tall Mike Tyson.

I got knocked out cold by a giraffe once.

Was in this zoo and standing in front of said giraffe for my photo when it just dropped it's head - like an anvil - onto the top of mine. Boom! Sparko! I can feel it even now, probably 45 years later.

Thinking back on it I was lucky - could have split my skull open or broke my neck. When I said "anvil" I wasn't kidding.

[cwis]

Dog Star said:

Catastrophic Poo said:

The giraffe would have been good, have you seen a fking angry giraffe?!? Like a tall Mike Tyson.

I got knocked out cold by a giraffe once.

Was in this zoo and standing in front of said giraffe for my photo when it just dropped it's head - like an anvil - onto the top of mine. Boom! Sparko! I can feel it even now, probably 45 years later.

Thinking back on it I was lucky - could have split my skull open or broke my neck. When I said "anvil" I wasn't kidding.

That beats my "Elephant stole my homework" tale by a head!

(Dudley zoo, school visit, fill in work as you go round, elephant shed circa 1980).

I was writing resting on the barrier when a very soft incredibly strong trunk gently took the papers off me and conveyed them to the elephant's mouth.

Said elephant then observed my reaction and that of my schoolmates with evident amusement. Teacher (who was probably having a fag outside at the time) initially did not believe me but had to when the same story was confirmed by all 15 odd children present.

[Zetec-S]

vikingaero said:

The biggest bellend is the defence:

James Riley, defending Green, said he was "at his core an animal lover" who had not deliberately attempted to cause suffering.

Not deliberately attempted to cause suffering? His client deliberately cut a fence to gain entry. He deliberately threw items at the animals. Is James Riley a moron? I really hate the legal system.

I understand everyone is entitled to legal representation and a defence, but surely this should not include blatant lying / BS.

[Tango13]

Dog Star said:

Catastrophic Poo said:

The giraffe would have been good, have you seen a fking angry giraffe?!? Like a tall Mike Tyson.

I got knocked out cold by a giraffe once.

Was in this zoo and standing in front of said giraffe for my photo when it just dropped it's head - like an anvil - onto the top of mine. Boom! Sparko! I can feel it even now, probably 45 years later.

Thinking back on it I was lucky - could have split my skull open or broke my neck. When I said "anvil" I wasn't kidding.

Out of curiosity I googled how much a fully grown giraffe weighs, a male can tip the scales at two tonnes!! Like you say, lucky not to be a little bit dead!!