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Hamster torture at Shenyang trade fair
Shahnghaiist.com ^
| May 14, 2012
| Shanghaiist reader "Revolted in Shenyang"
Posted on 05/14/2012 6:34:10 AM PDT by Makana
Anyhow, what you see in the video is a woman selling some kind of pest-control for rats that plugs into an electrical socket like a night-light. On her table she has varyingly one or two hamsters in a cage. I've walked past her several times over the past 2 days and sometimes it's one, sometimes it's two.
During her fast-paced sales-pitch she will take out the night-light device and plug it into a yellow extension cord socket on her left. As she plugs it in the hamsters instantly fall onto their backs or sides and begin writhing and convulsing violently. They cease writing the instant she unplugs the light. When there is one hamster in the cage it simply freezes after the shock, or runs wildly around the cage. When there are two hamsters they immediately begin biting and clawing at each other. I witnessed this at least 10 times throughout the course of the two days.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalrights; capitalism; china
Chinese capitalism run amok.
Forget the Whales. Save the hamsters!
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posted on
05/14/2012 6:34:18 AM PDT
by
Makana
To: Makana
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posted on
05/14/2012 6:39:44 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Makana
Was Richard Geer there?..........
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posted on
05/14/2012 6:43:18 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Think logically. Act normally.................)
To: bigbob
I think I just wet myself
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posted on
05/14/2012 6:51:36 AM PDT
by
WomBom
("I read Free Republic for the pictures")
To: Makana
What effect would this have on Barney Frank?
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posted on
05/14/2012 6:52:12 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
To: Makana
I wonder how it would work on this hamster:
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posted on
05/14/2012 7:02:03 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
To: All
It’s cruel, abusive behavior. How anyone can condone this or find it amusing is beyond me. Sensitive? Yes, so what.
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posted on
05/14/2012 7:02:10 AM PDT
by
navymom1
To: ClearCase_guy
big for hamsters, probably guinea pigs. She is obviously selling a toy for guinea pig owners.
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posted on
05/14/2012 7:03:55 AM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(The day liberals grow up is the day tyranny ends.)
To: Makana
It has been available for years. They are sold as something to repel rats and mice.
I don't see the big deal if used in an area away from pets.
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posted on
05/14/2012 7:11:53 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
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To: Makana
They cease writing the instant she unplugs the light. Dark days for rodent literature.
To: Makana
Waterboard them hamsters ‘till they talk.
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posted on
05/14/2012 7:19:43 AM PDT
by
MARTIAL MONK
(I'm waiting for the POP!)
To: Makana
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posted on
05/14/2012 7:36:27 AM PDT
by
Crucial
To: Makana
No. No. They’re trained to do that...and it’s the only job they can get that’s not minimum wage.
To: Makana
She should be in the cage.
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posted on
05/14/2012 7:52:02 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Makana
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posted on
05/14/2012 8:35:35 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank. - Montgomery Scott)
To: humblegunner
Dark days for rodent literature.
It was a dark and stormy hamster...
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posted on
05/14/2012 10:10:36 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: navymom1
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posted on
07/09/2012 8:29:57 AM PDT
by
Cronos
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