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tWO stars of a British celebrity reality TV show filmed in the Australian bush have been charged with animal cruelty by New South Wales police.
Celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo, who won the I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here TV contest, and soap star Stuart Manning were arrested and charged after cooking a rat and serving it with rice as a meal for fellow contestants.
D'Acampo, 33, and Manning, 30, were confronted by RSPCA officers after filming ended late last week on the TV show's set near Dungay in north eastern NSW.
British celebrities on animal cruelty charge for eating rat
Seeded on Sun Dec 6, 2009 6:28 AM EST
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Oh, this is hilarious. Arrested for killing a freakin' rat...LOL. The left is truly unhinged.
If found guilty, the pair face up to three years in jail. The ITV network, which broadcasts the program in Britain, could also face charges.
LOL!
I wonder where the libs will be holding their candlelight vigil for the rat? LOL!
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#1 - Sun Dec 6, 2009 6:43 AM ESTok, what I think MAY be wrong here, is IF it was a domesticated "pet store rat" which it sounds like the police think it is, and killing it, violate animal cruelty laws, which is ok with me, but the suggestion by the actors is that this is a wild rat, and I think killing it is just fine.. but some of them animal nuts (PETA) get upset at president Obama for killing a whitehouse housefly.
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#2 - Sun Dec 6, 2009 8:39 AM ESTI'll have the fried rat strips and gravy, make that a large please
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Sweet and Spicy mouse tenderloin filets wrapped in squirrel bacon, that's some fine eatin'
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I don't care if it was rat-terrier. BBQ it. As long as it's not cannibalism, it's just food.
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As long as it's not cannibalism, it's just food.
Cannibals have to eat too, ya know. We're considered food, as long as something is chewing on us
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I suppose that is righteous. Just as long as they arrest everyone eating a hamburger or steak, pork chops or fried chicken. And, are we sure plants don't have feelings or feel pain?
Jim420, I've worked in a pet store. Domesticated "pet store rat"? Some folks buy such rats, and mice (which I liked better) to feed their snakes. So, shall we arrest them for feeding rats (or mice) to their snakes - or arrest them for starving their snakes?
Bah humbug!
How did they kill the rat? Did they torture it? I kill flies and yellow jackets with a fly swattter, I don't pull their wings off or throw them in water. Although some wasp traps doing use drowning.
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#3 - Sun Dec 6, 2009 8:57 AM ESThmm, maybe your pet snake doing the killing is ok? but not humane for a human to do the killing? you never know with the PETA types, but the next post I see, has to do with the use of animals in film production, which is stupid, that would mean, according to Australian Law, Sarah Palin would have to be arrested for her press conference last thanksgiving at a turkey farm, where the turkey was be-headed. lol.. and I thought the crazys lived here in California,
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#3.1: "...according to Australian Law, Sarah Palin would have to be arrested for her press conference last thanksgiving at a turkey farm, where the turkey was be-headed. lol.. and I thought the crazys lived here in California,"
Good point. We do have laws in the USA about the use of animals in TV and Movies... gotta wonder why Palin wasn't charged, unless she actually ran it by the legal-eagles and got an exception. We just don't know, but your point is well taken.
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Jim, just to add some guilt to the snake owners...its can be better to feed frozen, dead rats "stuffed" with supplemental vitamins to the snake. Added nutrients and makes the snake less aggressive at feeding time. The snake owners would of course be the ones to kill, stuff and freeze the rats since the snake is incapable of preparing their meals in such a manner.
Personally, though, I liked watching my snake eat the live rats. I guess that makes me sick, twisted and probably criminal for enjoying the spectacle.
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According to the article, the killing of the rat as a part of a film or TV show is the problem, not necessarily that the rat was killed. There are strict animal cruelty laws in the film (movie/TV) industry, and if there was going to be a meal of fried rat, then they'd have had to have the whole slaughter thing supervised by anti-cruelty staff (or whatever they are called).
I'm sure we've all seen the disclaimer following the credits for a movie that "no animal was harmed during the making of this picture" or words to that effect.
Anyway, it was the killing of the rat as a part of a TV production that created the issues, and not that a rat was killed in the first place.
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#4 - Sun Dec 6, 2009 10:42 AM ESTIn other words, these people got arrested, because they didn't kiss bureaucratic behind?
Charming........
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