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US festival 'uses roo in boxing show'
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| March 6, 2010
Posted on 03/05/2010 4:21:07 PM PST by myknowledge
A red kangaroo that is goaded into fighting a human clown is the star attraction at a festival in the US designed to celebrate Australia.
The Daily Telegraph reports that the BorderFest festival in Hidalgo, Texas, features an event called Rocky Show Circus, involving two kangaroos and their owner, Javier Martinez, who dons the clownsuit.
The festival is sponsored by Kraft, the US owners of Vegemite.
The report says Mr Martinez baits the kangaroo by pushing it and poking it before placing it in a headlock.
If Rocky fights back too much, Mr Martinez's wife Sandra restrains it using a heavy tether attached to a harness around the animal's chest.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: animalcruelty; australianculture; borderfest; festival; hidalgo; kangaroo; texas
Rocky the Kangaroo.
Knocking around an Australian animal for fun...
...that's just sick, sick, sick!
To: myknowledge
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posted on
03/05/2010 4:23:19 PM PST
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(3V3Ry71N' 084M4 D03z 83N3f17Z MU5l1mz. c01NC1d3nc3?)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Ohhhh, that's gotta hurt!
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posted on
03/05/2010 4:24:20 PM PST
by
myknowledge
(F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
To: myknowledge
You can’t fool me, that’s really Howard Dean!
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posted on
03/05/2010 4:25:41 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: myknowledge
Looks more like the kangaroo is kicking that guy’s hiney.
What’s not to like?
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posted on
03/05/2010 4:25:42 PM PST
by
LongElegantLegs
( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
To: JoeProBono
Um...you’re needed over here! :)
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posted on
03/05/2010 4:27:43 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.)
To: myknowledge
If they can teach a Sasquatch to kick a soccer ball in DC. then they can teach a kangaroo to fight a idiot in Hilago.
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posted on
03/05/2010 4:30:40 PM PST
by
BigCinBigD
(")
To: myknowledge
It’s all fun and games until some F*wit gets disemboweled.
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posted on
03/05/2010 4:33:05 PM PST
by
steveo
(2010 never again)
To: myknowledge
There are a few youtube videos of kangaroos boxing and disposing of annoying humans.
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posted on
03/05/2010 4:36:47 PM PST
by
dennisw
(It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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