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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!

1 posted on 05/14/2012 6:34:18 AM PDT by Makana
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To: Makana

Somebody’s got to do it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9aA_fba_To


2 posted on 05/14/2012 6:39:44 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Makana

Was Richard Geer there?..........


3 posted on 05/14/2012 6:43:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: bigbob

I think I just wet myself


4 posted on 05/14/2012 6:51:36 AM PDT by WomBom ("I read Free Republic for the pictures")
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To: Makana

What effect would this have on Barney Frank?


5 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.)
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To: Makana
I wonder how it would work on this hamster:


6 posted on 05/14/2012 7:02:03 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
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To: All

It’s cruel, abusive behavior. How anyone can condone this or find it amusing is beyond me. Sensitive? Yes, so what.


7 posted on 05/14/2012 7:02:10 AM PDT by navymom1
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To: ClearCase_guy
big for hamsters, probably guinea pigs. She is obviously selling a toy for guinea pig owners.
8 posted on 05/14/2012 7:03:55 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The day liberals grow up is the day tyranny ends.)
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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.

9 posted on 05/14/2012 7:11:53 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Makana
They cease writing the instant she unplugs the light.

Dark days for rodent literature.

10 posted on 05/14/2012 7:15:27 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Makana

Waterboard them hamsters ‘till they talk.


11 posted on 05/14/2012 7:19:43 AM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: Makana

BUSH’S FAULT!


12 posted on 05/14/2012 7:36:27 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: Makana

No. No. They’re trained to do that...and it’s the only job they can get that’s not minimum wage.


13 posted on 05/14/2012 7:41:17 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: Makana

She should be in the cage.


14 posted on 05/14/2012 7:52:02 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Makana
Real men use the Rodenator Pro.
15 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)
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To: humblegunner

Dark days for rodent literature.

It was a dark and stormy hamster...


16 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.)
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To: navymom1

i agree...


17 posted on 07/09/2012 8:29:57 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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