Leopards And Things Out Of Whack
How do you know that you have a leopard in the bathroom? He is the one with the 'L' on his pyjamas and spongebag.
But for one household in the city, there really was a leopard in the bathroom - and it was not very interested in performing its ablutions.
In fact, the animal roared with rage once it discovered that it had been locked in the bathroom by frightened members of the house……
……Thousands of interested spectators converged on the house on Sunday morning once news of the trapped leopard spread.
They watched as frustrated forestry officials repeatedly attempted to lure the animal out of the bathroom and into a cage near the outside door.
But their job was made more difficult because the noisy crowd frightened the animal from coming out.
Correspondents say police were left with no choice but to fend off the onlookers with batons.
The animal was eventually tranquilised and taken away.
Read that last bit again.
Correspondents say police were left with no choice but to fend off the onlookers with batons.
The animal was eventually tranquilised and taken away.
I have a lot of fun with the "animal uprising" stories around here. I make fun of a lot of things in general. But the police attacked human beings with batons to force the curious onlookers away. The BBC even labeled that part of the report as "baton charge". Something is very, very badly out of whack here. They could have tranquilized the leopard but chose instead to beat on fellow humans to drive them back. There is so much wrong with this, I can't even wrap my head around it.
As a society, we have major problems.
Animals, World news | Gaius Monday, 8 January , 2007
By Jack, Monday, 8 January , 2007 @ 11:17 pm
I think you meant “out of whack” as a play on words.
If you know anything about India then you know they’ll launch a baton charge just for kicks and giggles.
As a matter of fact unless you’re an important person then the likelihood is that you’ll get several over the course of your lifetime. For begging, for congregating, for loitering, for running, for being a kid, for being old, because somebody pointed at you and said you stole the toilet paper, or just for fun. You’re not really a real Injun unless somebody has knocked a knag in your noggin at least once.
I wouldn’t read too much into it if they batonned the crap out of a crowd in India. They would have batonned the crap out of any rubberneckers within reach had a fat, gay, purple circus clown from Spitwad, Texas holed up in the head.
With them it’s just the principle of the thing.
By Gaius, Monday, 8 January , 2007 @ 11:20 pm
Actually, it is even more about the approving way the BBC reported it.
By Jack, Tuesday, 9 January , 2007 @ 10:16 am
Well, it is the BBC after all.
Coincidentally enough last night my wife had a dream that Gregory Peck was beating some child on the back with a belt. In the dream she took the belt away from Peck and began beating him with it. Then she told him if he ever beat another child she would finish the job.
I like Peck but I think my wife is a lot more threatening.