Just damn.
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Posted on 12/17/2004 4:20:18 AM PST by Samwise
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Some Indiana University students could face a hefty fine for tossing a guinea pig from an eighth-floor dormitory with a makeshift parachute.
The students used a garbage bag, dental floss and masking tape to create a parachute and then dropped the animal from their dorm window, Bloomington Animal Shelter manager Leigh Ann Hoffacker said.
The guinea pig landed in a tree and survived. The trembling rodent was discovered moments later by IU freshman Laura Robinson.
"My friend and I were on our way to get some lunch and we looked up and we saw her fall into the tree," Robinson told The Herald-Times for a story published Friday.
School janitors were able to reach the animal through a third-floor window and Robinson took it to the shelter.
"There was string and tape tied around it and it had some hair ripped out from the tape. It was really sad," Robinson said.
The identities of the students who tossed the creature from the building have yet to be determined, but Hoffacker said the list has been narrowed down by dorm administration. She said police likely would not do much, but the shelter's animal control office can issue a $500 ticket for animal abuse.
"Whoever did this did it in broad daylight," Hoffacker said. "They just didn't care, and I think it is quite disturbing."
The guinea pig appeared to be recovering well.
"She was scared and cold and shaking when they brought her in," Hoffacker said. "But now she is eating some alfalfa and seems just fine."
I think it is funny. Some folks need to lighten up.
As God is my witness, I thought guinea pigs could fly.
That's sick. My kids had guinea pigs and they are the most inoffensive playful little animals.
This upsets them, but filming a PORNO movie on campus doesn't bother them a bit.
Obviously, they weren't trying to kill the little rat.
The rodent was given a parachute. What is the fuss about?
The guinea pig landed in a tree and survived.
Jeeze, the parachuted worked. What's the problem? It's not like they just chucked the critter out the window...
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When pigs fly???
Did the pig qualify for jump wings?
---> issued 3 pairs of mousie astronaut wings myself - come and get me coppers!
Too many stupid yahoos get into university these days.
This reminds me of the jerks at St. Mary's University in Halifax who got a cat stoned on marijuana, shaved it, then dropped it from their twelfth-storey residence window.
Im hungry
What's the problem then?
anthropomorphic sentiment
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...this is great!
I thanked the Lord once for a hamster that died...stupid thing...I hated it, but couldn't bear to kill it...so when it died I rejoiced. Maybe we would have gotten along better if I had let him go sky diving!!
I can't stop laughing just picturing this.
Now, in the animal's defence, they could have least used a small animal harness to hook the parachute up, so that the tape didn't rip out chunks of fur...but still...
That's freakin hilarious!
(Is it sad that I'm sitting here in my mind trying to think of safer ways to do this to my puppy??-- she would love it though)
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