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2 Teens In Trouble After Duct Taping Goose
WCCO.com ^ | 6/3/08 | WCCO.com

Posted on 06/03/2008 7:40:47 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Two high school seniors are getting a real-life lesson in the law.

John Miller and Dane Rockstead go to Wayzata High School and both are charged with animal cruelty after investigators said they abused a goose and brought it to school.

"The bird appeared to be in pretty significant distress," said Chief Mike Goldstein with the Plymouth Police Department.

Police said the two seniors had the bird for two days before they brought it to school in a backpack.

"They actually shot it with a paint ball gun, put a net around it and then I believe put it in a kennel ... and they kept it overnight, and at some point brought it into the school," said Goldstein.

Investigators said the boys then tortured the goose even more. At some point they encircled the body with duct tape which I think caused the bird a lot of distress.

"It was dehydrated, it was in distress, they have to wait for all the feathers to fall off, and they have to clip many of them off because the duct tape did so much damage," said the Chief.

Students who witnessed the prank were shaken up and didn't think it was funny.

"A lot of people were talking about it. They just didn't agree with it all -- they thought it was really bad, and it just doesn't look good," said Senior Jennifer Wick.

The school district said it disciplined the students.

The two teenagers could be fined $1,000 and serve up to 90 days in jail.

Experts said when birds are stressed like this, they often die, so they think this goose is pretty tough.

The rehab center plans to release it back into the wild Wednesday.


TOPICS: Agriculture; Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalabuse; cheesegoosesister; ducttape; goose
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; Cagey

21 posted on 06/04/2008 2:47:40 AM PDT by Daffynition
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
At some point they encircled the body with duct tape...

They should have used goose tape.

22 posted on 06/04/2008 3:08:04 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Dog Gone

Dat you, Rocky?


23 posted on 06/04/2008 7:32:05 AM PDT by Erasmus (When it rattles by your window, the Chicago "L" annoys.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The kids at school were shaken up.

The goose was stressed out!

When,oh,when are we going to start duct tape control??!!

Common sense duct tape laws...NOW!!!

24 posted on 06/04/2008 8:31:21 AM PDT by 4yearlurker ("Give them Watts boys!!")
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