Kangaroo in zoo dies after being pelted by bricks from tourists trying to see it hop: report

Warning: link to Fox News; so I'll just confirm that yes, it happened in China, so you don't have to click.

I’m waiting for a statement from Morrissey.

disgusting

So this actually validates the discussion on the Morrissey thread about Chinese people and the poor animals who must live (and die) around them. Vile people.

I knew it was China before I read it.

People suck.

It should have hopped, then none of this would have happened.

A perfect example of why I prefer to be around animals rather than humans. Humans are vile. The sooner humans die out the better the world will be. You don't read about kangaroos throwing bricks at animals do you? Or keeping each other locked up in cages.

I lived in China for a year and knew it was China immediately.

Non FOX News link:

Why didn't zookeepers do something?

Sending Roger the buff 'roo to kick some Chinese ass.

Chinese and Muslims - who should I hate more? I’m pretty sick of people in general especially drug addicts, lazy people who could work on disability, billionaires whose effective tax rate is much lowe than mine because most my income is “earned income.” I coul go on .

Nature is vicious r8, you seem to have a Disney view of it.

hey R14...R8 is pretty much spot on....nature is vicious..BUT hello these are some more crappy people ( also not surprised it was in china) abusing an animal...they should be charged though in my world they would just be put with lions at that zoo but with no bricks..see if they like getting close to that nature!

This made me cry.

I sometimes think I'm just not meant for this world, you know? How could a human be so selfish and cruel as to throw goddam bricks at an animal? Something has to be wrong with their minds.

nature isn't deliberately vicious, it is cold and swift. that's anthropomorphic. I say put those people in the ring with a couple kangaroos let them get their asses kicked.

Can a culture, collectively, lack empathy? Did the Mao-era horror really mess up the Chinese people that badly?

Another question. Is it common for zoos to keep piles of bricks lying around?

I cant handle this story; get all the animals out of China. WTF. This is disgusting. Same, R16.

The story is a bit sketchy (as so many of these kinds of stories are) but they seem to be implying that people pried up bricks to throw.

Bet there's video.

I fucking hate zoos.

China has probably the worst record on treatment of animals anywhere. They are mainly responsible for pushing all kinds of species towards extinction due to demand for ridiculous folk medicine cures, such as rhino horns for ED. They have made some progress banning ivory lately though. But if they don't shape up they need to have sanctions imposed.

Fuckers

[quote]So this actually validates the discussion on the Morrissey thread about Chinese people and the poor animals who must live (and die) around them. Vile people.

As opposed to Seaworld and Ringling Bros run by "white people" who show how loving they are towards animals.

Funny how Morrissey just pretends that at a "regular" slaughterhouse, they apparently read a bedtime story to the cattle to lull it to sleep before they kill it. He's an idiot who appeals to the worst instincts of people and his logic can easily be challenged by anyone with more than a two-digit IQ.

Preach R26!!!

Chinese are disgusting.

Savage, cruel people. Currently intent on invading the West and buying up all the houses with their fake currency.

It would great to insult the actual people who did this rather than the entire population of the country.

I don’t think the US wants to be judged by the worst of its citizens,

This is truly disgusting. Close the zoo. If people are too inhumane and heinous to appreciate a zoo, close the goddamn thing.

What R26 said.

SeaWorld is much, much worse - they pretend their doing this for "animal research" - not in the least.

R32, and by "their," of course, I meant they're. I'm blaming autocorrect.

Why do they have loose rocks at a zoo?

Chinese eat cats and dogs partially alive so it's no surprise they would torture a poor animal for shits and giggles.

Let us not discuss the fact that the largest immigrant group into the US the past 40 years has been the Chinese. We now have three Chinatowns in Brooklyn alone..

Kangaroo is delicious. There’s this place in the Castro that sells kangaroo pizza and it’s so good. But it’s like $10 a slice. Why so expensive?

Hun, R37, please read the menus very carefully in every place you patronize on the Castro. The place you mention sells Gizzaroo pizza, not Kangaroo.

To hell with all of them. They cheat on everything.

This was just the spectators. But Chinese zoos are notorious for their animal cruelty: with the keepers throwing live goats into lion pits, feeding live donkeys to tigers, all to cheering crowds.

R39 = 95-year-old eldergay who thinks it's still 1944

I'm glad our friends the Muslims didn't do this. We don't need anyone saying bad things about them. They are good people who want the best for us. We must make sure they have all their needs met.

Well, that kangaroo should’ve fucking jumped for the people. She had it coming if you ask me.

The Chinese need education. They really hurt these two kangaroos. One almost lost its’ foot. The one who died had internal injuries from the big jagged rocks. I wish I could bring those poor Roos to LA and pay those fucking Chinese monsters some money for their animals. I guess they’re still savages for the most part. They call their Siberian tiger breeding farm a fucking “sanctuary”. Ugh!!!!

[quote]A perfect example of why I prefer to be around animals rather than humans. Humans are vile. The sooner humans die out the better the world will be. You don't read about kangaroos throwing bricks at animals do you?

Bless your little heart. Animals are AWFUL to each other. They tear each other apart and eat each other alive.

Stop watching so much Disney.

What was on it's IPOD?

Their culture grinds away at the earth, consuming and destroying. What need do they have for sensitivity? And yet if the Chinese government decided to save the environment, it would happen. The People have not yet grasped how much good they could do in the world.

They had a huge famine engineered by Mao. Maybe they lost their empathy for living creatures because they were treated worse than animals. Read this in a terrible book “Hungry ghosts”. It was not that long ago.

R47, China's investing billions in green technology, which is something the current US Administration is backing away from... in favor of coal and crude oil.

[quote]I guess they’re still savages for the most part.

Wow, does the racism ever end here at DL? This might be the worst thing I've read here.

Keep reading snowflake ^

R18 I to wonder if this is a result of the trauma of Maoism. The current Chinese seem to be very different from the pre-Mao Chinese or the ones from Taiwan. Also, why the hell were bricks just laying around in a Zoo?

I’ve seen first hand, the culture has little empathy for animals. It’s a true blindspot.

In 2016, 1.34 million roos were killed for commercial purposes. At least the Chinese don’t eat the kangaroos

You’re making excuses for some backward Chinese people who stoned an animal to death cruelly for entertainment. Then tried to stone another one a few weeks later. Not impressed by that picture. Chinese may not eat kangaroos but will destroy practically any other animal for idiotic reasons.

I completely agree with you R8.

I'm surprised they actually managed to hit it.....most of the ones I know couldn't hit a barn door from six feet away

[quote]What was on it's IPOD?

Jump! by the Pointer Sisters.

R55 Ya it’s ok to eat your coat of arms.

We've already read your "bedtime story" spiel on the Morrissey thread. This isn't a case of cultural relativity , so get the fuck over that right now. Currently there's two threads atracking a pop culture figure for inconvenient comments he made about certain Eastern cultures, and this story backs him up. Sea World and slaughter factories will have their day. Right now you'd do well to focus on the cruelty of Chinese people whose cultural constructs tell them it's fun to murder animals, because that's what this thread is about.

[quote] Bless your little heart. Animals are AWFUL to each other. They tear each other apart and eat each other alive.

The folks here at DL are the same who joke cruelly when a human being is maimed or killed. How do wild animals inspire sympathy but the death of a human is funny?

R61 Stop being such an ignorant ass. I can guarantee if some human were caged and then stoned to death there would be some outrage.

Animals get more sympathy because they are helpless against human society, and are frequently subject to cruelties at the hands of humans that they would never face otherwise.

I can't believe this has to be explained.

China is inhumane to anything and everything. They are disgusting. Should be a lot more in the media about it. The cruelty in this world is beyond repulsive......NO BRAINS and NO SOULS!

R63 At least they don’t shoot their students

We're talking about a country where a toddler was ran over by a car TWICE in a busy marketplace, and was then left to slowly die in the street. People just walk right past her as she lay there bleeding but conscious and crying. I can kinda-sorta get the whole "bystander effect" phenomenon if it's adults, but come the fuck on—a tiny child is lying smashed in the street like roadkill but still alive, and it doesn't occur to you that you should maybe do something to help her?

I wonder if the child being a little girl had something to do with it. Which brings me to another point: the Chinese practically exterminate their baby girls, resulting in the most skewed sex ratio in the world.

The Chinese are... odd when it comes to their children. They're either extremely loving and permissive, or incredibly barbaric and cruel, with little middle ground.

R65 And in America the police shoot blacks. What’s your point ?

A huge meteorite needs to land in the middle of China and wipe those motherfuckers off the face of the earth

LOL. How else you gonna make Kung pao kangaroo?

Simple. Don’t stone kangaroos at all. If you do, and you wipe out our tigers, our rhinos, our armadillos, you will be called savages . If you are Chinese, just have a little shame. Don’t defend your people when they do evil shit.

I don’t want to attract a certain type of troll. So I’m just going to say that I belong to the “other” eastern culture M is being attacked for. I’m a straight female and I don’t make excuses for the evil shit I see my people doing. Because I’m a little uh...aggressive and I don’t make excuses for them, I am isolated as a result, and I like it like this. I don’t call myself a peaceful, religious from a “religion of peace” (BS), kosher(HL) eating idiot from hell, who needs to wear a piece of black shit on my head and call myself fucking “MODEST”. I have gotten into huge fights with these trolls and had to apologize to Muriel a few times. So, I hope you are aware as you read this and avoid attracting M trolls here.

I don’t make excuses for the medieval savagery and psychopathy in my people and you shouldn’t either. I find they(my people) have collectively lost their minds and this is why they are doomed forever to rot in the 3rd world, or even a few rungs lower. I haven’t spared my friends, nor my family. You should be just as morally incorruptible.

R69 won’t like the human stoning in some Muslim countries

Finally somebody with a head on her shoulders. R69 thank you.

Yeah thanks R69..

I do admire certain Chinese characteristics but animal cruelty leaves me cold. Halal requirements are heinous. Here in Australia there are certainly double-standards and live export of animals is one of those shameful practices. The same with harvesting kangaroos. As someone pointed out there is a kangaroo on our coat-of-arms! But there is always someone who will pedantically argue that animals are there for our use and not much more. I won't change their attitude. But a hundred years from now I wonder what the world will look like and how happy people will be living in a denuded natural world.

R30 having lived in China for a year (and in an industrialized city in the north you've probably never heard of) I can attest that animal cruelty in China is a feature, not a bug.

I remember seeing one guy with a starving donkey that pulled his cart every day.

And while I was living there, a video circulated on Chinese social media of a guy selling puppies (like everything else) roadside. He would suspend a puppy in an excruciatingly painful way, essentially torturing it, until someone bought it. That's how he sold them. The depravity was breathtaking. Like -- what the actual fuck?

Why are the Chinese so repulsive? Their own commie government has had to print brochures teaching people not to spit because it began causing health issues. I've also seen people on the streets blow their nose onto the pavement, no tissue or anything. In general, they're okay, but I've had a few be really gruff and nasty to me for no reason when I've been there.

I travel for work and have traveled for pleasure to, and it's always the Chinese tourists who are the worst. Even more so than the Japanese with their cameras who'll swarm a landmark for pictures when you just want to look at it for a few seconds or just get your own shot of it. But still, the Chinese. They're the worst.

R73 I largely blame the Mao era "reforms" (Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, etc).

There is a lot of new wealth in China -- like an absurd amount -- and also a breathtaking amount of poverty. Imagine a country the physical size of the US, with a population of around 300,000,000 middle- to upperclass citizens. Now add 1,000,000,000 people living in dire poverty. And everyone fighting for resources. That is China.

With all the new money comes a degree of materialism that is abhorrent. See: Vancouver, Canada. Or even the Chinese students who come to study at US universities -- many of whom cheated their way in -- prancing around in $1,500 Canada Goose coats.

Oops, mean to sign that R73

I know my assessment doesn't remotely cover the complexity of the situation; these are just observations from living in China, having a number of Chinese-born friends who now live in the US, and reading about Chinese history

Something has to be done with overpopulation

R17 You'd be lucky if they kicked your ass. They prefer to rip your guts out.

After the first few bricks you'd think the roo would have learned to back off instead it would stand there like a dumb animal.

[quote][R73] I largely blame the Mao era "reforms" (Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, etc).

What did the Cultural Revolution do create this? What were they leaping toward?

R80 Google is your friend

The Romans were the worst in cruelty, lions anyone ?

Dirty Muslims kill people all the time, especially gays, their own leaders kill their own people, yet you have orgasmic feelings for them, hate Christians and bitch about Chinese. Fucked up h8ers.

R82 or bear -baiting in Renaissance England

Humans are indeed a vile species that deserve the fate that awaits them: being wiped off the face of the earth. The kicker is that, because they are so vile, humans will take 90 percent of the other species with them.

Hopefully whatever or whoever takes the place will be, in all likelihood, a lot better than homo sapiens.

What about atrocities committed in Vietnam by the Americans?

Bullshit argument, R86

R87 And Hiroshima ?

THIS DOESNT HAPPEN IN PEOPLE'S KOREA, FOLKS

We eat dogs

What about the Rape of Nanking, R88? What about the Armenian genocide? What about the Khmer Rouge? WHAT ABOUT...... ???????

Nagasaki anyone ?

The holocaust ? Or didn’t it happen ?

How is Halal meat cruel?

Chinese tourists are horrible pushy nose-picking peasants. And I say that, believe it or not, as a very liberal person who af least tries not to judge based on ethnicity and who gave them many chances to prove the stereotype wrong.

Everyone in Europe and Asia who’s always up in arms about American attitudes and manners, just wait until the Chinese supplant us. Lesson: Be careful what you wish for.

Kosher and halal are both torturous.

Typical Datalounger weighs in.

R86, you’re not very familiar with history, are you? My Lai was a walk in the park compared to the way things often go in Asian military operations.

Just as one example, when Chinese provinces would rebel against the empire, the rebellion would be quelled and then examples would be made of rebels. Like death by a thousand cuts, or being locked in a box partly exposed and left to starve. The image below is from Mongolia but the same was done in China.

R98 Ancient history, why don’t you cite Guantanamo Bay ?

Right and my lai was last week too.

What happened after Tiananmen Square, r86?

How many protestors had tanks driven over them? How many more were executed as traitors, and then a bill sent to their families for the bullet?

R26 every Datalounge thread has an underlying theme of racial resentment; unless the thread is about Whites.

China laughs at Guantanamo Bay

R100 it wasn’t only My Lai

[quote][R26] every Datalounge thread has an underlying theme of racial resentment; unless the thread is about Whites

I think that’s a blanket statement although it’s definitely true at times. I think everyone has a point at which they just give up trying to be nonjudgmental and just surrrnder to stereotyping. I’m definitely at that point with the Chinese, and it took me a while to get there.

R104 it wasn’t just Tiananmen Square.

[quote]It would great to insult the actual people who did this rather than the entire population of the country.

It's a fact of human nature that when an individual commits a terrible act, we like to blame the largest group of people to which that person belongs and to which we don't. In this case, it's China.

Only in America

Only in America

R107, I agree but when you have bad experiences 100% of the time with Chinese tourists you reach a tipping point. I know it’s wrong in my mammal brain or whatever you call it, but the reptilian brain says “girl you in danger” when I see one of those herds of Chinese tourists blot out an exhibit in a museum or head for the buffet....

R109, meet OP.

Oh and by the way, the Chinese government agrees with me ....

I live in a building in LA with many Chinese students but they are very rich. They go to a community college nearby and behave very well. I think when any country gets rich too fast, manners don’t keep up. Takes a generation to catch your behavior up to the money you have. I’ve seen the same behavior in India and Pakistan. But I saw nothing but amazing manners in Japan 30 years ago. I did not see this kind of behavior in Africa either. Empathy with animals takes a lot of work. I know there are huge efforts to stop animal cruelty in Karachi in Pakistan. Those poor starving donkeys even have a large zoo to live out their lives naturally once rescued. This is all done by public donations. Last time I was in Karachi, I got to cuddle with a German Shepard pup at an animal show. Who knows, he seemed really sleepy and we wondered if he was drugged. But he was alive at least. I don’t doubt there is illegal animal trafficking in these Eastern countries but the younger generation of teens is very socially conscious.

Where are all those Americans criticising the Chinese society now ?? Huh ?

R114 they are in the Waffle House shooting thread talking about gang violence in Chicago.

Waffle House-4

Chicago in 2018 so far-131

Yes R116 drug related gang violence is absolutely the same thing as innocent people being gunned down while sitting in a restaurant.

Somebody I know used to work in a zoo and they were telling me they had to constantly supervise Chinese tourists to make sure they didn't do things like this.

R118 Only Chinese tourists?

R119, don't look at me.