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kurasakiichimaru on 02 March 2011
Soriku said:
kurasakiichimaru said:

Fortunately, the owl is alive. :)


Actually, it died :(

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/01/footballer-in-colombia-could-face-jail-for-kicking-owl-off-field/

A professional soccer player in Colombia faces up to three months in jail for kicking an opposing team's lucky owl, which had been been hit by a ball after landing on the field Sunday. The owl died Tuesday.

The owl was considered a good luck charm for the Atlético Junior squad in Barranquilla and lived in its Metropolitan Stadium.

Luis Moreno, a Panamanian player for Deportivo Pereira, was met with chants of "Murderer! Murderer! Murderer!" after kicking the owl and had to leave the stadium under heavy police guard, according to the Daily Mail in London. (The Daily Mail has video of the owl kick, or you can check it out on YouTube.)

For those too squeamish to watch the footage, which the Daily Mail warns constitutes animal cruelty, a Pereira defender chases a Junior attacker into the penalty box, wins the ball from him and clears it, poorly, hitting the owl that had landed on the field.

The referee stops play, and Moreno trots over and kicks the bird off the field, a distance of about three yards.

The incident was aired on national television and prompted widespread outrage, and not just from Junior fans. Environmental groups urged sanctions against Moreno and called for protests at the National Soccer building in Bogota.

Moreno apologized, saying it was not his intention to harm the bird.

"I did it to see if the owl could fly," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.

The owl was taken to Zoosalud veterinary clinic in Barranquilla, the Daily Mail reported. Veterinarians said it was suffering from stress and needed sedation but that X-rays indicated no fractures.

The veterinarians later told Colombia Reports, a news website, that the owl died early Tuesday of respiratory arrest.

A Spanish-language report from Radio Santa Fe in Bogota said that Moreno faces one to three months in prison and a maximum fine of 50,000 pesos, about $26.

Moreno apologized again in a news conference and said he would accept responsibility.

"I apologize to the whole country and more to the fans of Barranquilla because it was a very grave action, and if I receive a penalty, then I'll take it."

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Dude deserves his punishment...uncalled for to kick and kill a defenseless animal. If he kicked another player that'd be bad too but I doubt the player he could've kick would've taken that serious of an injury, let alone died...


Sad right now... =(

 

Ninpanda said:

Soriku said:

Moreno apologized, saying it was not his intention to harm the bird.

"I did it to see if the owl could fly," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.

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kurasakiichimaru on 02 March 2011
highwaystar101 said:

If there's one thing that makes my skin crawl it's pointless animal cruelty. I think it's low, as low it gets. It makes me outraged. It's the animals inability to control the situation in cases like this, where they are essentially defensless and have caused no harm to anyone. Wanting to inflict pain on an animal in this situation is just sadistic.

This player could have easily called for the handler to collect it, no harm done. The play had been stopped, and that would have been the logical thing to do. But no, he saw the owl and decided to kick it as hard as he could (which for a soccer player is bloody hard). The only reason I think he would have done it is for his own sadistic pleasure, and that makes me extremely angry!

Fucking murderer!

The thing people who thinks the owl deserve it because it's not part of the society is we get that it was an accident that it was hit by the soccer ball, but what we don't get it is, the basterd player already saw it was down, why inflict further harm to this defenseless animal. Tell so much of his personality.SMH rn for him. =[



trestres on 02 March 2011
highwaystar101 said:

If there's one thing that makes my skin crawl it's pointless animal cruelty. I think it's low, as low it gets. It makes me outraged. It's the animals inability to control the situation in cases like this, where they are essentially defensless and have caused no harm to anyone. Wanting to inflict pain on an animal in this situation is just sadistic.

This player could have easily called for the handler to collect it, no harm done. The play had been stopped, and that would have been the logical thing to do. But no, he saw the owl and decided to kick it as hard as he could (which for a soccer player is bloody hard). The only reason I think he would have done it is for his own sadistic pleasure, and that makes me extremely angry!

Fucking murderer!


I can assure you that kick wasn't even a 10th of what it could have been. Had he hit it as hard as he could and you would have seen blood and feathers all around. I don't think his intentions were to kill the bird, I think he just did that to get the animal off the field, you can tell because he performed a low and ascending slow kick, which is the same a player does to pass the ball to the hands of a person.

Having cleared that, I think the guy is a fucking person. There was no need to do that at all. It was an incident and no matter if you are winning or losing the match, if you are going to do it then do it properly with your hands or wait for someone to do it if you don't want to touch the animal. I would also like to question the home club itself (the owners of the owl) as to why was the owl allowed to be there while the match was going on. If they knew that the animal had the habit of landing in the field they should have protected him not only from some angry player but from a sure hit by a ball.



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Xen on 02 March 2011

Bloodchilling. That was utterly without reason, and the dude deserves far more than 3 months in Jail - a bad nature like him deserves far more, he can't be more respectful to humans, can he?



highwaystar101 on 02 March 2011
trestres said:
highwaystar101 said:

If there's one thing that makes my skin crawl it's pointless animal cruelty. I think it's low, as low it gets. It makes me outraged. It's the animals inability to control the situation in cases like this, where they are essentially defensless and have caused no harm to anyone. Wanting to inflict pain on an animal in this situation is just sadistic.

This player could have easily called for the handler to collect it, no harm done. The play had been stopped, and that would have been the logical thing to do. But no, he saw the owl and decided to kick it as hard as he could (which for a soccer player is bloody hard). The only reason I think he would have done it is for his own sadistic pleasure, and that makes me extremely angry!

Fucking murderer!


I can assure you that kick wasn't even a 10th of what it could have been. Had he hit it as hard as he could and you would have seen blood and feathers all around. I don't think his intentions were to kill the bird, I think he just did that to get the animal off the field, you can tell because he performed a low and ascending slow kick, which is the same a player does to pass the ball to the hands of a person.

Having cleared that, I think the guy is a fucking person. There was no need to do that at all. It was an incident and no matter if you are winning or losing the match, if you are going to do it then do it properly with your hands or wait for someone to do it if you don't want to touch the animal. I would also like to question the home club itself (the owners of the owl) as to why was the owl allowed to be there while the match was going on. If they knew that the animal had the habit of landing in the field they should have protected him not only from some angry player but from a sure hit by a ball.

You're right. Maybe I got a little worked up.



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Kirameo on 02 March 2011

What a scumbag ):/



 

Rainbow Yoshi on 03 March 2011

I thought he was going to form a terrible excuse such as "I thought the Owl was the ball."



Ninpanda on 03 March 2011
ArkZero said:

the owl is dead.

Long live the owl!

@Rainbow Yoshi

See my earlier post.



Slimebeast on 03 March 2011

That was cruel.

The owl has just as strong feelings and sense of pain as a human.

Man is still so primitive, we only got past tribalism and racism but we are far from true equality and compassion towards living beings.

Although the reactions in this thread give me hope!



Rainbow Yoshi on 04 March 2011
Ninpanda said:
ArkZero said:

the owl is dead.

Long live the owl!

@Rainbow Yoshi

See my earlier post.


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