soiarrai Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china/article1690634.ece From The Times April 23, 2007 Catapult boy is eaten after taunting crocodile in pen Jane Macartney in Beijing A schoolboy who climbed over a fence into a crocodile enclosure and taunted the animals with sticks and a catapult was dragged into the water and eaten. The nine-year-old, whose family name was given as Liu, and three friends sneaked into the crocodile park at the Silver Beach holiday resort at Beihai in the southwestern Guangxi region on Friday. The children shot at the animals with catapults and beat them with sticks. The official Xinhua news agency said: â??One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liuâ??s clothes and dragged him into the water where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles.â? His companions then raised the alarm. Investigators searched for the missing boy and decided to check inside the crocodiles. Snipers used pork to lure them out of their pool and shot dead the first animal to lumber on to the bank. Inside it they found human remains that were confirmed to be those of the boy. The crocodiles were still being bred, even though their performances at the park were stopped several years ago and the pool had been sealed off for auction. The parkâ??s owner had hired a keeper to take care of the crocodiles, but it was unclear why the man was not at the enclosure when the boys broke in. The manager and the keeper were being questioned by police. Animal welfare has long been a low priority in China, where many zoos have for years provided bare and often squalid pens for animals that spend their entire existence in the public eye. Even at the Beijing Zoo, the prized pandas must now be cordoned off well out of reach of visitors. People have in the past tossed food wrapped in plastic bags into their pens which destroyed the digestive system of at least one of the endangered animals. The latest scandal to attract public attention came last year in Shanghai when a city zoo cancelled its â??Animal Olympicsâ? after shows featuring boxing matches between kangaroos and their keepers, bears fighting and riding bicycles and an elephant tug-of-war drew unwelcome publicity. The event was cancelled after animal rights groups posted reports and pictures on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 What a crazy thing to do ....sad the boy was killed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Sounds like the whole place should be shut down............boxing kangaroos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Evolution at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Is there a Junior Darwin Award? Pity they shot the croc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 i have to agree. 'Snipers used pork to lure them out of their pool and shot dead the first animal to lumber on to the bank' the kids were tormenting the animal and when one gets himself killed the solution is to kill the croc...... lock the fucking kids up i say.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Yup, the animals were doing nothing wrong. Those kids were trouble in the making. Better they all got eaten now before they do something much worse in the future. p.s. Do you think my years of teaching have prejudiced me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teddy Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 i have to agree. 'Snipers used pork to lure them out of their pool and shot dead the first animal to lumber on to the bank' the kids were tormenting the animal and when one gets himself killed the solution is to kill the croc...... lock the fucking kids up i say.......... Although I don't believe in Zoos at all, I would have to say that it makes sense to kill the croc. The animal now relates humans to a meal and it would probably end up attacking an innocent child when it next felt peckish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 I know some kids I'd be happy to supply to the crocs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted April 25, 2007 Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 sorry Teddy but i have to disagree (and not for the 1st time)....... the Crocs were in their environment and if some kid decides to invade it then i feel the animal was right in doing what it did. it knows no better,it would have been a different matter if the crocs were waddling down a main street causing havoc. we don't know the full facts but i imagine that the crocs were in an enclosure and some sort of fence or suchlike was needed to be breached to get access to them. if someone is stupid enough to go into a dangerous animals environment then the consequenses are down to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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