Bastard
May 30th, 2008 at 6:47 am by David FarrarLike most, I smiled when I read the headline about William Singhlagah being charged with assault with a weapon – specifically a hedgehog.
But any humour disappeared when I read this:
“He admitted to having been in possession of a hedgehog,” Constable Lyndon Reid said. “He originally claimed that the group had been playing hacky sack with it.”
I hate bastards who torment helpless animals. To throw a hedgehog at someone is unthinking. To play hacky sack with it is simply sadistic.
Of course he may be lying, but regardless not impressed.
Tags: sad bastards, William Singhlagah
May 30th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Just look at his photo.
Dole bludging trash.
Wears orange overalls tied down to trousers as a ‘tribute’ to prison uniforms.
Dole bludging trash.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 7:18 am
so many pricks in one place yet still he stood out as the biggest one…
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 7:40 am
I hate bastards who torment helpless animals.
Yep. And it’s not just cheap sentiment, either. Fucks who enjoy doing this kind of thing to animals will torment and kill people too. Dead and tortured animals should be considered a character witness against defendants in these kinds of cases, because it goes to character alright.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Just look at his photo.
One of Huluns voters.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 7:54 am
“name of the victim is suppressed but he has earned the nickname “Sonic” ”
May have got an acquittal if he’d used that defence
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Makes the Holy Hand Grenade a prickly subject. Must go and set me possum traps on DOC land.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 8:11 am
One of three primary signs of the sociopath in training.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Only the murder of a child makes my blood boil more than animal cruelty, this piece of shit deserves to be beaten about the head with a baseball bat.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 9:03 am
…and in other news thousands of humans get murdered in abortion clinics every week. But won’t someone please think of the hedgehogs
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 9:14 am
I take it everyone who commented here agreeing with DPF is a vegetarian? If not, you are all hypocrites.
If this was a kitten or a puppy instead of a hedgehog, surely there would be a cruelty to animal charge. I cannot see a difference under the law between either of the former and the latter.
[DPF: Most people know the difference between relatively humane killing of an animal, and physical abuse and torture of said animal. That is why we have laws against said abuse.]
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Radar
“If this was a kitten or a puppy instead of a hedgehog, surely there would be a cruelty to animal charge”
You would hope so but sadly our courts seem to think that fining these scum bags is suffiecnt….not that the bastards actually pay the fine.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 9:27 am
oh dear…
radar wrote “I take it everyone who commented here agreeing with DPF is a vegetarian? If not, you are all hypocrites.”
Me thinks radar is applying for the position of village idiot here. Are you mates if Sonic, Paull etc?
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Oh get stuffed Radar. I’m a meat eating, hunting, pest eradication type bloke and I don’t find any pleasure or find it acceptable to cause unnecessary pain to animals.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 9:57 am
And how do you suppose the Kahui twins got those injuries? That’s how some of these families behave on the piss, animals and children are playthings for them. Remember Nia Glassie? The boys used her for rugby league style tackling.
JC
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 10:39 am
“[DPF: Most people know the difference between relatively humane killing of an animal, and physical abuse and torture of said animal. That is why we have laws against said abuse.]”
Your use of the word “relatively” demonstrates that you know that the slaughter of animals for consumption is not very humane. I would suggest you take a look at what happens in slaughterhouses and then get back to me on that one DPF.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 11:42 am
seems to be a total fuckwit, hope the SPCA goes him
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I stop and move hedgehogs off the road if I see them there. I like the little fellas. We have a couple that live behind our shed and sneak out and get into our cat food. They don’t even curl up when you approach but keep on eating. I can scratch them on the nose and they keep eating. The big one is like a rugby ball! Run him over and you’ll bust your axle. I moved the cat food because he was getting too fat.
Radar – you are a dick. I grew up on a farm as a small kid. You don’t mistreat your animals. We fed them, looked after them, and then ate them. It has worked for the last 10,000 years humans have been practising agriculture and for several hundred thousand years before that when we were hunters. Go and hunt a piece of brocolli.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Human beings naturally require a diet with a certain amount of meat in it, and there is a big difference between killing another living thing to ensure your own survival, and killing (or tormenting) a living thing because you enjoy doing it.
I wonder how often the gallant Mr Singhlagah picks on wild animals (or 15-yo boys) his own size?
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
“Human beings naturally require a diet with a certain amount of meat in it”
Vote:Oooh be careful. You’ll have the fucking vegans on here in a minute saying “oh, you don’t need meat you just need air. And some water that has been ethically produced so as not to disturb any bacteria present. And dust…Have you got any dust?”
May 30th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Animal cruelty is indefensible.
But, speaking of hedgehogs, has Sonic logged on for his daily ritual of self-flagellation yet?
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I haven’t yet read the details of this story but I wonder, given his name, if Mr Singhlagah is one of our recent immigrants for whom I always thought there was a ‘good character’ requirement.
Perhaps cruelty to hedgehogs is part of his cultural tradition and therefore off limits for us to criticise or stop him from pracitising. If so, once again, we have evidence of multiculturalism gone mad, and a catastrophic – not just for hedghogs – immigration policy.
DPF: I applaud your concern about hedgehogs and your desire to protect them. How about human foetuses?
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Dust? You got to eat actual dust?! You were lucky!! We were made to lick up the dust but then spit it into small baggies so our mam could snort it when she couldn’t get her hands on any ‘P’. You and your bloody poncy dust-eating kind make me sick!!
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
@ Kiwitoffee: “Perhaps cruelty to hedgehogs is part of his cultural tradition”
You mean he’s a gyppo? Pikey bastards…
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
bearhunter
I’ve just seen the story and the photo. I suspect the hedgehog wouldn’t have had a chance. It was a victory of brawn over brains.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Oh I’ve seen the picture too, now. I reckon he is a gyppo. He has that feckless, untrustworthy look about him. Probably makes a few shekels selling clothespegs door-to-door.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
We enter a compact with farm animals including my own chooks and ducks.
Under my care they enjoy a longer life than in the wild, along with better health and little if any risk of being torn to pieces by predators or sickening from disease. We even enjoy each others company.
then when it comes time I deliver a quick humane death – and then have a nice dinner.
We have no such compact with whale which is why I am against hunting whales for their meat. We give them nothing during their life and then deliver a slow painful death.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Heh … I am sentimental about animals too and cannot bear to see them cruelly treated. Had some cute little mice in the aviary; the dog and I enjoyed seeing them cavort about. But then the dishwasher flaked out and the shower began spurting water into the wall cavity . The tradesmen came, at great cost, to find that the water pipes, in both cases, were chewed through. I instantly forgot about humane traps and started thinking kryptonite. That being hard to obtain, I called the local rat-catcher who came within the hour with deadly poisons to murder the little bastards.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Radar
“I would suggest you take a look at what happens in slaughterhouses and then get back to me ”
Just got back and Yep, just as I suspected, they get slaughtered.
Vote:Anything else you wanted checked?
May 30th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Owen McShane makes no sense.
“We enter a compact with farm animals including my own chooks and ducks.”
What sort of a ‘compact’ has only one agreeing party in it? It has no legitimacy.
“Under my care they enjoy a longer life than in the wild…”
Then we may as well keep every animal in the world in the care of human beings if that is your argument.
“…along with better health and little if any risk of being torn to pieces by predators or sickening from disease.”
Except for the end of their lives when they are torn apart by a human being.
“We even enjoy each others company.”
I will have to take your word for it that your chooks and ducks enjoy your company. That’s lovely.
“then when it comes time I deliver a quick humane death – and then have a nice dinner.”
It may be ‘humane’ for you, as you aren’t the one having your neck broken/slashed.
Vote:May 30th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
For what it is worth, I’m a farmer, I love my animals, I take no pleasrue in putting any animals on the truck or nor do I love killing them for the deep freeze. Having said that I have put a bullet in most things that move, I wish I had not sometimes but such is the way it is. My personal feeling is that it’s to easy get a cut of beef or the back leg of a lamb without hard work , that means to kill the animal , hang it up , let it set , then cut it up.Sadly most people have no idea where their meat comes from nor do they realise how it got to their plate.
Vote:May 31st, 2008 at 8:04 am
He is most definitely a naughty boy.
On a side note the hedgehog throwing incident got coverage on a topical current events quiz show in the UK. It was on BBC’s “Have I got News for you”. Don’t worry; New Zealand got credit for where the throwing incident happened.
Better advertising than any Tourism New Zealand initiative.
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