Shaking and peeping uncontrollably and unable to control body temperature? Uhh, that would be me in a Stockholm nightclub...
Posted on 06/06/2009 10:51:52 AM PDT by llevrok
A Stockholm magician has been charged with animal cruelty for painting several baby chickens as part of a show at a trendy night club last year.
The chicks were sprayed with glow in the dark paint, and forced to endure the pulsating music and crowded dance floor of the F12 nightclub on a lively night in late-August last year, the Metro newspaper reports.
The magician and organizers at the club claimed the stunt was “art”, but a guest at the bar that evening had another opinion.
“The chickens were really scared, shaking and peeping. It was horrible,” Felicia Linder told the newspaper at the time.
Linder called police who were also shocked by what they saw.
“They were painted with glow in the dark paint, were running all over the place, and were really stressed. I’ve never seen anything like it in 30 years,” Lisbeth Morin of the Stockholm police told Metro.
The magician had purchased the chicks on Blocket.se, a popular buy-and-sell website in Sweden.
The charges are based on the opinion of a veterinarian who believes the animals endured undue suffering during their night at the Stockholm night club.
Not only was the paint itself highly toxic, it also made it impossible for the chicks to adjust their body temperature.
The 27-year-old magician denies that he committed any crime, claiming he had no idea the chicks were suffering.
But the head of F12, Magnus Jansson, told Metro club management would be more careful in the future.
“I can only say I’m sorry that things went so far that night,” he said.
They used to sell colored chicks for Easter in the US, but they banned those due to cruelty. They also used to dye poodles as well, and paint designs on the back of turtles and sell them...all too banned. Yet we kill thousand of unborn a day - priorities, all about priorities!
Some men will go to any lengths to pick up chicks at trendy nightclubs.
Hey, give him a break, at least he didn’t waterboard them
I thought this thread was going to be about chicks, not chickens. Another wasted click.
Shaking and peeping uncontrollably and unable to control body temperature? Uhh, that would be me in a Stockholm nightclub...
Okay, my first reaction is that releasing a bunch of fluorescent chicks in a nightclub sounds like fun...until you imagine having to clean up after the little guys.
For some reason, this story reminds me of Monty Python’s “mice organ sketch”. Now, that idea was cruel.
Beats what the Colonel has planed for them!
peep!
Psychedelic!
Yeah really ... and I was about to say "THIS THREAD NEEDS PICTURES"!
However, hopefully Goldie isn't a wasted click :)
Trendy!!
We used to buy colored chicks for Easter. Since we kept chickens anyway, we just put the chicks in with the other chickens when Easter was over. When their feathers came in, the tips were still the colors they had been dyed. Made it easy to tell them apart, but they were always all roosters.
Turtles have value.
Sage advice. ;-)
ROFL!
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