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Nation mourns bird killed in domino shooting
Reuters ^ | 11/18/05 | Reuters

Posted on 11/20/2005 6:27:20 PM PST by Kimmers

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch animal lovers are mourning a sparrow shot dead after it fluttered into an exhibition hall and knocked over thousands of dominoes set up in preparation for a world record attempt.

The sparrow will be commemorated in a live Dutch television broadcast of the domino-toppling Friday after a wave of national outrage at the shooting.

"We know we are responsible for a lot of emotion in the country and we realize we couldn't go on without properly marking this," said Jeroen van Waardenberg, a spokesman for reality TV company Endemol, the firm behind "Big Brother."

An exterminator shot the sparrow Monday in the northern city of Leeuwarden after fears the bird could upset more of the 4 million dominoes which staff had spent weeks balancing on their edges for the record attempt.

Dutch animal rights groups are outraged, especially as sparrows are a protected species in the Netherlands.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: animalwhackos; bird; death; dominoes; leftistdelusion; leftistidiocy; leftistidiots; netherlands
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To: Spruce

"Sparrows are a protected species?"

With all the hysteria about gun ownership and discharge in the U.S., sparrows, crows, etc. are also protected species in the U.S. The crow population here in Florida is clearly, seriously out of control.


61 posted on 11/20/2005 8:11:45 PM PST by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: BadAndy
"..Europe is an incredibly silly place.."

Where is could Monte Python originate?

62 posted on 11/20/2005 8:25:43 PM PST by pickrell (Old dog, new trick...sort of)
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To: Kimmers

Amazing, just amazing. Just when you think leftwing sensibilities couldn't get any crazier or run a socialist nation any further into the ground, something like this comes along.

Let the Islamofascists have Europe. There's nobody left worth saving.


63 posted on 11/20/2005 9:10:56 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (The problem with being a 'big tent' Party is that the clowns are seated with the paying customers.)
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To: Kimmers

This will go down as "BS Day" in Dutch history. (Bastard Sparrow)


64 posted on 11/20/2005 9:13:07 PM PST by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: Kimmers
Q.....Why do the Dutch wear wooden shoes?

A.....To keep the woodpeckers off their heads.

Leni

65 posted on 11/20/2005 9:19:38 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Kimmers
"The Dutch Domino Sparrow Tribute Telethon"

Oh why couldn't it have been a European Starling?

66 posted on 11/20/2005 9:25:34 PM PST by higgmeister (In the shadow of the Big Chicken.)
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To: Kimmers

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67 posted on 11/20/2005 9:36:36 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: RegulatorCountry
What is the lifespan of a sparrow, anyway, two years?

Laden or unladen?

68 posted on 11/20/2005 9:38:38 PM PST by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Europe is doomed.


69 posted on 11/20/2005 9:39:00 PM PST by 2111USMC
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To: beaver fever
They could have avoided this disaster by taking a Starbucks muffin and crumbled it in the corner away from the dominoes.

But who can afford 200,000 Kroner for a Starbucks muffin just to distract a swallow?

70 posted on 11/20/2005 9:44:25 PM PST by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: Lady Jag

I don't know. It's just too weird to be made up.


71 posted on 11/20/2005 9:45:11 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Rembrandt

Crows in NY are pretty out of control, too. Every year they try to have a crow shoot in Auburn and all the bleeding heart animal rights people won't stand for it. Yet the birds are causing a lot of damage to the farmers. I was in Auburn one time and the way the crows were thick and flying around and cawing, it reminded me of the movie, "The Birds". It was really, really creepy.


72 posted on 11/20/2005 9:50:32 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Kimmers

The dutch don't bat an eye at prostitution and all kinds of sexual perversion. They don't even blink at the use of heavy drugs. And the death of a bird gets to them?


73 posted on 11/20/2005 10:01:04 PM PST by SmoothTalker
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To: beaver fever

"Where I live sparrows raise entire families of one Starbucks muffin and they extremely cute and fearless."

LOL! Great prose.


74 posted on 11/20/2005 10:26:27 PM PST by wolficatZ (Higgens - "Zeus...Apollo...Patrol!"....)
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To: 2111USMC
True enough, but I was wrong. There ARE some folks in Europe worth saving - some right here on FR. Honest to God, though, a nation that legalizes euthanasia and routinely aborts children has zero sensibilities collectively. This is proof. The Germans of WWII would eat these pathetic creatures like ice cream.

I have come to firmly believe that when a person, or people, accepts the legal right for infanticide or euthanasia some kind of moral gymnastics are needed to keep a balance in their mental health. Like a balanced tension, the goofy sentiment we see in this article is nothing more than displaced guilt suppressed in diseased minds over the moral guilt of real murder.

I not a shrink (thank God), but I've seen too many lefties and the constellation of weirdness that they consider moral thought to not believe that this is true. Ask any animal rights (or anti-hunting type for that matter) if they are for abortion rights, assisted suicide and the like. Nine times out of ten they will equally passionate about these issues too. Right is Wrong and good is evil.
75 posted on 11/21/2005 5:45:33 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth (The problem with being a 'big tent' Party is that the clowns are seated with the paying customers.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
And now for something completely different...
76 posted on 11/21/2005 3:43:41 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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