Posted on 09/30/2017 8:54:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The hunt is on for a sick golfer who got his friends to video him decapitating a goose on the tee of a top class golf club in Finland.
The cruel golfer is seen on video lining up his golf club with the back of the bird’s neck before taking a full swing and slicing its head off.
The video was uploaded on LiveLeak today under the title ‘Finnish Golfer Kills Barnacle Goose’ and within hours the Vantaa Golf Park, Helsinki, launched an investigation. Police were also informed of the incident. Ville Nurmi, Vantaa Golf Park managing director, told The Sun he had made criminal report and: ‘We condemn the case completely
The goose-killer is not a member of the golf club but could be prosecuted if found. The video is being shared around social media in the hope of identifying the culprit. The Finnish Golf Association executive director Juha Korhonen condemned the golfer in the video. He said: ‘It is impossible to understand. Such behaviour is in complete contravention of all the values and principles on which the golf game is built.
‘We hope that the police will find out the identity of the person and that he will be punished according to his actions.’ This is not the first instance of birds and animals being killed on golf courses.
In Hawaii last year 74-year-old Uwe Dettmar tried to hit a goose with his golf club before running it over with his golf cart, killing the rare bird. Dettmar said he was protecting his wife, who was afraid of geese. He was fined $11,000 (£8,200) and given a 30 day suspended sentence.
Many of the lakes and ponds in the U.S. Midwest are toxic from being polluted by geese.
Q: What can a goose do that a duck can’t and a lawyer should?
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