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Guinea Pig Parachute Won't Lead To Cruelty Charges
Associated Press ^ | 5/25/05

Posted on 05/25/2005 1:25:35 PM PDT by Air Conditioned Gypsy

Guinea Pig Parachute Won't Lead To Cruelty Charges

19-Year-Old Already Paid Civil Fine

POSTED: 12:22 pm EDT May 25, 2005

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An Indiana University student is cleared of animal cruelty charges after a December skydiving stunt involving a parachute and a guinea pig.

Nineteen-year-old David Feldscott was accused of taping a parachute to the rodent and sending it out an eighth-floor dorm window.

He and some friends told police they were planning to retrieve the guinea pig when it reached the ground, but that plan failed when the animal got stuck in a tree.

It was rescued and placed at a local animal shelter, where it acquired the name Noel since it was the holiday season.

The judge dropped the criminal charge against Feldscott because the student had already paid a $500 civil fine.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalcruelty; animals; cary; whenpigsfly
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To: beltfed308
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!"

-- Arthur Carlson, WKRP in Cincinnati

21 posted on 05/25/2005 1:35:21 PM PDT by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy

As long as it's still legal to shower with cats.


22 posted on 05/25/2005 1:35:38 PM PDT by jjmcgo
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To: Tax-chick
Hey He's fine having a beer and pie to celebrate

o and a smoke


23 posted on 05/25/2005 1:35:51 PM PDT by al baby
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy

Mmmmmm, Cuy!


24 posted on 05/25/2005 1:36:00 PM PDT by Ozone34
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy
Auction Noel the guinea pig on eBay. I'm sure some PETA folks would pay top dollar.
25 posted on 05/25/2005 1:37:54 PM PDT by zencat (The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy

Richard Gere is horrified.


26 posted on 05/25/2005 1:37:56 PM PDT by Sloth (I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy

Guinea Pigs in parachutes??

I wonder if it would work with R(H)INOs in parachutes?


27 posted on 05/25/2005 1:38:44 PM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy

28 posted on 05/25/2005 1:39:31 PM PDT by al baby
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy

,,, $500 is an outrage. What he was doing was ensuring the future safety of guinea pigs with the development of this parachute. It can't be clearer. What's wrong with judges?!!


29 posted on 05/25/2005 1:40:55 PM PDT by shaggy eel
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy
Hmmmm? Wonder if there would be any legal problem over at the Gay Student Union if a gerbil got stuck somewhere?
30 posted on 05/25/2005 1:41:13 PM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy

Would they prefer that the kids didn't give the guinea pig a parachute?


31 posted on 05/25/2005 1:41:52 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Sloth

32 posted on 05/25/2005 1:41:58 PM PDT by Air Conditioned Gypsy
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy


Guinea Pig skydiving jump. . . Take 1.
33 posted on 05/25/2005 1:42:23 PM PDT by zencat (The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy

I guess i'd better still stay in hiding after launching all those lizards in the clear capsule Estes Rockets when I was a kid. We never recovered a couple of them.


34 posted on 05/25/2005 1:45:53 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Seven disloyal senators sold the chance to crush the democrats for tv face time.)
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To: Rebelbase

Your safe, just don't visit Indiana and your ok.


35 posted on 05/25/2005 1:47:30 PM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
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To: RSmithOpt
However, it's not cruel to starve a human animal to death, civilly or criminally.

My thoughts exactly.....

36 posted on 05/25/2005 1:47:38 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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To: Rebelbase

I stepped on some earthworms on rainy days.


37 posted on 05/25/2005 1:47:39 PM PDT by Air Conditioned Gypsy
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To: Rebelbase
I guess i'd better still stay in hiding after launching all those lizards in the clear capsule Estes Rockets when I was a kid. We never recovered a couple of them.

Too funny. I sent up several grasshoppers in Estes rockets. Always used the C or D engines for the capsules I'd build.
38 posted on 05/25/2005 1:47:41 PM PDT by zencat (The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy

So where's the picture of the Peruvian sidewalk cafe where the patrons are eating roasted guinea pig?


39 posted on 05/25/2005 1:47:59 PM PDT by Spok
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To: Air Conditioned Gypsy
If I knew what the statute of limitations were on offenses like this I would tell you how it came to be that our house cat learned to treat me with extreme deference and stay out of my way. But that was a very big parachurte and only a three story drop at a very serene rate.

I was only 12 at the time BTW.

40 posted on 05/25/2005 1:50:52 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
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