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NZ man 'used hedgehog as weapon'
BBC ^
| 07 Apr 2008
| BBC
Posted on 04/07/2008 10:42:59 AM PDT by BGHater
A man in New Zealand has been charged with using a hedgehog as a weapon, the New Zealand Herald has reported.
Police said William Singalargh, 27, had hurled the hedgehog about 5m (16ft) at a 15-year-old boy.
"It hit the victim in the leg, causing a large, red welt and several puncture marks," said Senior Sgt Bruce Jenkins, in the North Island town of Whakatane.
It was unclear whether the hedgehog was still alive when it was thrown, though it was dead when collected as evidence.
The police spokesman said the suspect was arrested "for assault with a weapon, namely the hedgehog."
Mr Singalargh is due to appear in court on 17 April. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison.
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hedgehog; newzealand; weapon
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Please, no Ron Jeremy photos.
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:43:00 AM PDT
by
BGHater
To: BGHater
I'll give up my hedgehog when they pry it from my cold, dead, fingers!
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:44:24 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(It takes a father to raise a child.)
To: Slings and Arrows; BGHater
There’s a weapon you don’t see every day!
*up to the reader to determine if I mean Ron Jeremy or the poor deceased little hedgehog*
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:45:16 AM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
("Shorn, dumb and bleating is no way to go through life, son." Yeah, close enough.)
To: BGHater
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:47:01 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(It takes a father to raise a child.)
To: BGHater
Ouch! ‘Strewth that must have hurt! Not funny! Not even a bit funny!
Them hedgehog mungrels are all sharp pointy spikes, a little like a baseball with hundreds of nails sticking out, maybe 1-2 lbs heavy.
It wouldn’t have hurt the hedgehog but. They roll up into a tight ball when threatened, spikes-out, and are quite rubbery. If a dog, for example, tries to bite one, the dog owner will for sure have a vet bill and the hedgehog will waddle away laughing.
Throwing a hedgehog! Hell-funny and only in NZ! Crikey!
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:47:33 AM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: BGHater
LOL!...and you thought, this only happened, in/on Monty Python's, Flying Circus
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:47:55 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you...our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
To: BGHater
Assault with a dead weapon.
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:48:06 AM PDT
by
eastsider
To: BGHater
Police sketch of the perp:
To: BGHater
When hedgehogs are outlawed only criminals will have hedgehogs.
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:49:11 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: Titan Magroyne; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ..
10
posted on
04/07/2008 10:49:32 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Code Pink should guard against creating stereotypes in the Mincing Community." --Titan Magroyne)
To: BGHater
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:49:39 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Tagline is offline till something better comes along...)
To: skinkinthegrass
LOL!...and you thought, this only happened, in/on Monty Python's, Flying Circus
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:51:54 AM PDT
by
cspackler
(There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
To: BGHater
Hedgehogs don't kill people, people kill people.
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:53:30 AM PDT
by
lonevoice
(John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
To: BGHater
A hedgehog IS a weapon!..............
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:53:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Jeff Chandler
Who’s Ron Jeremy? http://www.freerepublic.com/~ronjeremy/
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:53:59 AM PDT
by
bad company
(How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization)
To: cspackler
Shoot...I wanted to be the first person to post a photo of Spiny Norman
To: BGHater
People are wasting their time trying to ban guns. THIS is where we need to focus our efforts!
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posted on
04/07/2008 10:58:25 AM PDT
by
Marko413
To: BGHater
Did he use this guy?
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posted on
04/07/2008 11:01:11 AM PDT
by
cdbull23
("If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back." - Homer on what's good to drink.)
To: skinkinthegrass
Not as dangerous as a pointed stick.
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posted on
04/07/2008 11:01:11 AM PDT
by
synchron
To: BGHater
This article gave me an idea for a new sport to replace dodgeball.
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posted on
04/07/2008 11:09:55 AM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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