Wednesday, September 22, 2010

What a bunch of tossers!


If you wanted proof that this country is becoming overly politically correct and fast losing its sense of humour – as if we ever needed to – then read on.
Last week, the Manawatu Standard newspaper ran a story about the children at Colyton School – a rural primary school – participating in the contest, in which pupils grabbed possum carcasses by the tail and lobbed them through the air to see how far they could toss them.
Apparently, since running the article, the paper said it had had complaints from people who strongly disagree with the practice and calling for the school to ban future contests.
Some readers even went as far as to complain to the SPCA after being horrified that children were being taught to "disrespect dead animals".
One of such do-gooder, Kim Rodgers, said she complained to the SPCA and asked for the possum pitching contest, and the entire practice, to be banned. Rodgers said she'd laid the complaint because "someone needs to do something to stop this".
Ah… wrong Ms (and I bet you are a Ms too) Rodgers. You are just a busy-body, loser with too much time on your hands!
Now the SPCA says it plans to talk to the school after getting complaints about its possum throwing contest. Palmerston North SPCA centre manager Danny Auger said while the school was not breaking any laws, but that did not mean schools should be "encouraging" students to mistreat dead possums.
"We have reasonably strong feelings about stuff like this and that is while it's technically not illegal, it's morally wrong to throw a dead animal around."
Auger claimed he was worried that the children were being taught to throw dead animals and questioned the judgment of teachers at the school.
"These are the people who are entrusted with educating our young people, maybe the teachers need to be educated on what's acceptable," he said.
School principal Colin Martin declined to make any comment and good on him. God, if there was ever sign that the SPCA is a bunch of PC losers this would have to be it!
FFS - these disease carrying, noxious pests were already dead! It is not as if they were getting hurt or abused. And, as far as I am concerned, it was teaching rural kids something very useful lesson – that the only good possum is a dead possum!
It is a pity the little, wanker from the SPCA did not have a quiet word with his mates at Forest & Bird – who would have told him all about the damage possums do to our native fauna. There are about 30 million possums in New Zealand that munch through around 9,000 tonnes of leaves, berries and fruit every night
Then there are the nasty diseases that possums spread among our cattle and deer populations. Does the SPCA's Danny the Dickhead not realise that cattle and deer are animals too? Or does he think it is more appropriate that kids worry about the welfare of dead possums than the suffering these nasty little TB carriers inflict on live animals and humans!
If I was the school principal, I would tell the woofter from the SPCA to fuck right off and go do something useful like hug a whale or neuter wild tom cats – which the SPCA is suppose to do anyway.
The fact is that real tossers in this situation are not the kids chucking the dead possums, but the do-gooders who complained about it and the SPCA for taking their complaints seriously.

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