Re: Sick shits...

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:49:48 +1300, Mainlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,2732213a6009,00.html
>> 
>> What the hell possesses people to do this sort of thing?  And not only
>> that..imagine if there was a kid around the cat...
>
>Just to make you feel better here's a tale from Wellington.
>
>NZ railway staff have buried a goose run down in the middle of the 
>railway line to Johnsonville yesterday. "Gordon the Goose" had become a 
>favourite with adults and kids, and also staff, who would drop bread near 
>the tunnel for the bird. A small cross has been erected beside the tunnel 
>5.

Dropping bread near a tunnel sounds mischievous to me, or at least a
very unwise thing to do to a poor unsuspecting goose. An accident
waiting to happen, if you ask me.

And I'm sure those with an eye for discrimination and constitutional
rights would have something to say about the unwarranted assumption
that the goose was a Christian.

I worry about whales in that respect. Is ritual mass suicide part of
their culture/religion, and are we offering them a grave insult -
perhaps even consigning them in their own eyes to lifelong disgrace or
eternal damnation - by "saving" them?

Steve B.