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A man who stabbed an Emu to death ‘because he wanted to eat it for Christmas lunch’ has been fined almost A$4,000 (US$2,500) for animal cruelty.
An Australian court heard that, two days before Christmas, Patrick James Andrews, 23, crept into the Emu enclosure at Alexandra zoo in south-east Queensland, where he repeatedly stabbed a 30-year-old Emu named Mary, before cutting its legs off. Zoo staff later found the animal dead in its enclosure.
After Andrews pleaded guilty to the animal cruelty charge, magsitrate Graeme Tatnell fined him more than A$1,000 and ordered him to pay an additional A$2,800 in restitution fees to Bundaberg Regional Council.
In a revealing indication of the state of mind that drove him to carry out such a depraved and senseless act, Andrew was also found guilty of six drug and traffic offences. However, you have to ask whether such a relatively small fine will constitute an effective deterrent against apalling incidents like this happening again.
Image Credit – blmurch via flickr on a Creative Commons license
Talk about creepy. I don’t know what weirds me out more: The guy who stabs an emu at the zoo for Christmas lunch or the other guy who had two live pigeons in his pants at the customs check…
Wait wait wait wait wait … he stabbed an Emu at the zoo? WTF!?
Seriously, this guy needs to be in jail before he decides he needs to sneak into someone’s home and stab their bischon because he wants to make something “authentic” for Chinese New Year.
(note: that is not intended to be as racist as it sounds – I just don’t want my dog stabbed!)