How seriously rooted has the PC brigade made our country? Whinging like poofs about a possum chucking competition.
Yeehaa!
A rural Manawatu school which held a possum throwing contest has drawn SPCA criticism and upset many in the community.
Children at Colyton School last week held possum carcasses by the tail in a contest to see who could throw them the furthest, theManawatu Standard reported.
Palmerston North SPCA centre manager Danny Auger said the school was not breaking any laws, but that did not mean children should be encouraged to mistreat dead possums.
“It’s morally wrong to throw a dead animal around. It’s about time that people wake up and smell 2010 and realise that these sorts of things shouldn’t be happening.”
Mr Augers was worried that children were not being taught to respect dead animals.
He would visit Colydon School to ask them to stop holding such events.
The school refused to comment.
The school should tell him to sling his hook. Possums are a pest, we destroy them in their millions with posion and shooting, they spread bovine tuberculosis and are a health risk as well.
If it wasn’t for the PC wowsers banning animal fur all over the world possums would be good for something other than target practice. Good on the school for finding something useful for dead possums to do.
