Two friends face jail over goldfish swallowing. What's weird ?

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Two friends face jail over goldfish swallowing. What's weird ?

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Ok, a bit of a rant here on this crazy world and petty little first world problems :dm:
Are our priorities becoming totally screwed ? Just wondering about what this article says about us all and the way things are heading...

Seriously, how weird is this ? Not the fact that a drunken fool swallowed a goldfish for a dare, but that the case went to court and the fools face jail because they posted their deed on social media. In every western country the courts are overloaded, the prisons are full, yet they have time to deal with facebook outrages like yobs swallowing goldfish. Seems like weird is becoming mainstream, as justice and politics are increasingly responding to social media and public outrage.

All the best restaurants continue to throw live lobsters, mussels and crabs into boiling water, and oysters should always be eaten raw and alive. I wonder if this is a class distinction ? Could you be sued for putting tobasco sauce on a live oyster, causing it unnecessary suffering ?
And should your kids be sued for that goldfish floating in the bowl that they forgot to feed ? :cry:

Or are we all focusing on tiny little shit like this, ostrich-like, so we forget what's really happening ?

Two friends face jail over dare that ended in goldfish swallowing
Friday 20 January 2017

Two friends face jail for taking part in a drinking game dare in which one of them swallowed a live goldfish.

Daniel Challis, who ate the fish, and Cheryl Stevens, who videoed him and posted the footage on Facebook, were both convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to the creature.
They were told by magistrates in Torbay, Devon, that they could be given a custodial sentence and the case was adjourned for reports on them to be prepared.

Kevin Withey, the RSPCA prosecutor, said the pair were with friends in an office above the Crazy Horse pub in Paignton, Devon, where they took part in a drinking game.
Withey said: “This was a bravado exercise called Neknominate, a craze where someone dares to drink things. It becomes more bizarre and unpleasant.”

The magistrates were shown the 35-second video several times. Challis is seen picking up the wriggling goldfish, a friend’s pet, holding it above his mouth by the tail and swallowing it as people in the room laugh. He pulls a face as he swallows the fish.

Some people who saw the video on social media reported it to the RSPCA, who investigated...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... swallowing
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it may only be a goldfish but its still feels pain and stress,possibly
probably suffocated to death

animal cruelty is just not on
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SinnSisamouth wrote:it may only be a goldfish but its still feels pain and stress,possibly
probably suffocated to death

animal cruelty is just not on

Quite. What should we do about the Cambodian practice of biting off live fish heads ? :?
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I gave up on this new bunch of keyboard cry babies years ago.

They'll moan about anything now to forget they're truly miserable lives for but a second.
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And also, David Blaine swallows frogs and gets a TV show lol
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Anchor Moy wrote:
SinnSisamouth wrote:it may only be a goldfish but its still feels pain and stress,possibly
probably suffocated to death

animal cruelty is just not on

Quite. What should we do about the Cambodian practice of biting off live fish heads ? :?
instant death
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SinnSisamouth wrote:
Anchor Moy wrote:
SinnSisamouth wrote:it may only be a goldfish but its still feels pain and stress,possibly
probably suffocated to death

animal cruelty is just not on

Quite. What should we do about the Cambodian practice of biting off live fish heads ? :?
instant death
Sometimes inflicted by the fish :shock:


It is common practice to kill a fish by biting its head before scaling it, the officer said. Ms. Narom had killed and scaled one perch before the second slipped into her throat, he added. Kulen district deputy police chief Yeang Samphuon said that Lim Narom, 46, died soon after swallowing the fish. “Less than 20 minutes after swallowing the fish, she started coughing up blood and died,”
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22267/ ... live-fish/
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RSPCA throwing their weight about. Nobody really knows how much fish comprehend, they just respond to stimuli. The goldfish would have died fairly quickly. No worse than getting eaten arse first by another fish.
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A man (now deceased) who lived in the seminary in Macao had spent years in and out of prisons and labour camps for refusing to renounce the spiritual authority of the Papacy,
to cave in and adhere to the CPC-approved Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.

According to the historian Msgnr Teixeira, this unbowed survivor had seized and crunched up snails, frogs, roaches and
pretty much anything even marginally edible in order to survive.
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next up- prosecution for eating oysters
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