Headline of the day - Pigeon tossing.

[eldar]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8365075.st...

The headline, rather than the act made me laugh...

[lordlee]

tossers indeed.

[G_T]

Further proof to our fellow Europeans that we're a nation of yobs. *Sigh*.

[Bing o]

G_T said:

Further proof to our fellow Europeans that we're a nation of yobs. *Sigh*.

But we are, aren't we?

[pokethepope]

The article is not very detailed, could they not have been trying to 'set them free'?

[Halb]

pokethepope said:

The article is not very detailed, could they not have been trying to 'set them free'?

Hmm. They pleaded guilty to it...but after the spate of animal cruelty threads here, I doubt they were innocent.

[EDLT]

The privacy laws seem like a sensible idea, crazy how they have that in an ex-soviet-bloc country.

[G_T]

EDLT said:

The privacy laws seem like a sensible idea, crazy how they have that in an ex-soviet-bloc country.

To be a part of the EU they have to implement the brussels directives into their laws. Failure to do so results in a hefty fine.

The same EU legislation is just about the only thing that protects what little privacy we have from our own government.

Brussels got at least one thing right it would seem...

[offshorematt2]

I've read this story a few times and I don't know if I'm being dense..but why didn't they open their wings? Why did they 'plummet to the ground'...

[TheEnd]

G_T said:

Further proof to our fellow Europeans that we're a nation of yobs. *Sigh*.

In the week that a Lithuanian throws a dog off a bridge, i can't see a pigeon being thrown into the air going down in history.

[dougc]

[MonkeyHanger]

EDLT said:

The privacy laws seem like a sensible idea, crazy how they have that in an ex-soviet-bloc country.

A few of them have funny things like working Public Transport and a distinct lack of CCTV cameras too.

[thinfourth2]

The sad fact is these tossers got a larger fine in poland for injuring a pigeon then they would in the UK for assaulting a person

[G_T]

TheEnd said:

G_T said:

Further proof to our fellow Europeans that we're a nation of yobs. *Sigh*.

In the week that a Lithuanian throws a dog off a bridge, i can't see a pigeon being thrown into the air going down in history.

True. Perhaps it was Karma?

[esselte]

Bing o said:

G_T said:

Further proof to our fellow Europeans that we're a nation of yobs. *Sigh*.

But we are, aren't we?

You speak for yourself...

[TheEnd]

G_T said:

TheEnd said:

G_T said:

Further proof to our fellow Europeans that we're a nation of yobs. *Sigh*.

In the week that a Lithuanian throws a dog off a bridge, i can't see a pigeon being thrown into the air going down in history.

True. Perhaps it was Karma?

Maybe the bridge dog was used a diversion to take the heat off the other guys, harmlessly practising Pigeonry.