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| Heavy fines for lobster cruelty law |
| 2004-03-01 |
| Pet owners in a central Italian town must pamper their dogs, cats and birds and even show mercy to supper-time lobsters or face fines as high as 500 euros. According to a new bill regulating the treatment of animals that will be implemented next week in the wealthy town of Reggio Emilia, canary owners will have to buy a significant other for their bird, who otherwise might suffer from loneliness. how you like it you lock in cage and never get lay! Dog owners will have to provide sufficiently spacious dog houses in shady, sheltered locations and pet owners of all stripes will be prohibited from dyeing the fur of their animals. The rules, spelled out in 39 different articles, also make it illegal to throw live lobsters in boiling water. "It’s a useless torture, they should be killed first," a spokeswoman for the town said on Saturday. they shouldnt be kill period! Fines for breaking the rules run from 25 to 495 euros. |
| Posted by:muck4doo |
| #17 Hell, AP send us your location that we might load that sucker into Micro$oft Fligt Sim. (Yes I have a weakness for it) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-1 6:55:59 PM |
| #16 I hope the poster wasn't honestly looking to rally PETA sympathy at Rantburg. Might just as well show up at a college frat house on Saturday night flogging a message of temperance. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-3-1 5:12:05 PM |
| #15 Skykilled Ptarmagan is my flavorite. Final approach on a village airstrip in late fall after a snow. Surprised a flock pecking gizzard stones, they flew up, I was landing. 2 hit the wheels, 2 hit the struts, 1 pink misted into the prop. I landed picked them up. 4 clean kills, 1 write-off. They had been eating fermented blueberries, so the meat was already marinated. Best roadkill I ever had. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-3-1 5:00:25 PM |
| #14 Sloe Deer is still the best. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-1 3:43:57 PM |
| #13 Are you kidding! Flat Cat surprise is to die for! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-3-1 3:33:27 PM |
| #12 I prefer 'possums with tiretracks myself. I went to a resturaunt, they can make that food so artistic... |
| Posted by: Miss Gunn 2004-3-1 2:13:50 PM |
| #11 Mmmmm! Pheasant alàbumper! My favorite! |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-3-1 1:40:35 PM |
| #10 Wonder what it says about road kill? I would hate to seem 'em lose that as well. I tell ya, nothin' puts meat on the table like my SUV. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2004-3-1 1:12:23 PM |
| #9 The best way to kill a lobster is like they do over at Haliburton with an intense burst of gamma rays from the umm, uh never mind. Mr. Chainey said we weren't supposed to talk about that until after the 'demonstration' for Big A over in Ramallah. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2004-3-1 12:49:18 PM |
| #8 Hose -- those are "downer" animals, and need to be disposed of, not eaten. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-3-1 12:19:39 PM |
| #7 Would we be able to eat the meat of animals and fish that die of natural causes? "I'm not dead yet..." |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-3-1 11:53:57 AM |
| #6 Does this mean no more raw oysters? This could ultimately be a bigger Nanny State than we have here. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-3-1 11:49:39 AM |
| #5 So the Chinese dish of "drunken shrimp" would be banned or are shrimp too low on the evolutionary ladder? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2004-3-1 11:38:01 AM |
| #4 If I get my lobster a date, does that mean I can boil my dog? |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-3-1 11:30:35 AM |
| #3 either way - you're heating the water with my Oiiillll! Bwahahahha |
| Posted by: Chainney 2004-3-1 11:19:46 AM |
| #2 The rules, spelled out in 39 different articles, also make it illegal to throw live lobsters in boiling water. It's either that or throw the lobster into a pot of cold water and heat it up sl-o-o-o-o-wly... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-3-1 11:05:25 AM |
| #1 Next: A few words from the Earthworm Protection League... |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-3-1 11:02:30 AM |