How disgusting is this?

[ladybirder]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...d-manchester-13616599

[redman41]

Really disgusting ladybirder ! Those morons need to be taught a hard lesson, I'd throw them in the Manchester Ship Canal for starters.
Low life.

[ladybirder]

A 13-year old and a 15-year old have been arrested in connection with this.

[Chaffinch]

Then that should be their sentance 13 and 15 years respectivly. I suspect they wont even get 13 months between them though!

[carmalee]

they do it because they know no one will 'take them behind the bicycle sheds and discuss the matter with them' - the worst they will get is maybe an all expenses paid trip to the Amazonian rain forest to commune with nature then (hopefully) come back better persons or they'll get a smack on the wrist and be told to 'not be naughty peoples'.

[ladybirder]

Depressing isn't it.

[Prudie]

I fail to see how any sentence, except perhaps a lobotomy, would change the sick minds these youths have.

[Old_Geezer]

When the mind fails, individuals are capable of anything.
At least the victims weren't young children this time.

[seadogg]

Have a pal who lives not far from Wythenshawe. estate. They have to be careful about security. I'm afraid its the culture of the area for some of the young to do this kind of thing. They know no better, a bit like the cat that hides under my feeders. Trouble is that it costs a lot to put in strategies to improve the behaviour of kids like this and the security measures to protect against the worst element.

[ladybirder]

Maybe start with the parents?

[seadogg]

I suspect its too late ladybirder. Having worked with this type of youngster in outdoor pursuits I have met some of them.

[askyourgran]

A good smack around the back of the head wouldn't have gone amiss. These young yobs are getting away with it. There seems to be no other way to get through to them, But allow them to clean up the mess they've made first, and get their parents roped in to help them too.

[DTCwordfan]

So much for the Duchess of Pork's efforts................

[granny grump]

Sorry I don't know how to post a link - but it looks as though there has been a spate of this type of thing - I just dispair


Dozens of prize pigeons have been slaughtered by intruders in the latest in a string of attacks at a farm in South Yorkshire.

Eighty-four birds, including chicks, had their heads and wings torn off in the break-in at Cudworth, near Barnsley, on Thursday night.

The owner, a disabled man who did not wish to be named, said there had been 12 incidents at his farm in 12 weeks.

Police said they were investigating the "recent incidents" at the farm.

Whoever's done this is a madman”

Arthur Holmes victim's friend

"Local officers are in regular contact with the occupant and police enquires are ongoing," said Insp Gill Blake, of Cudworth Safer Neighbourhood Team .

The crime spree began with tools being stolen, then ferrets were taken and caravans broken into.

'He's scared'

On Monday six hens were killed and on Thursday night pigeons worth thousands of pounds were targeted.

They had been specially-bred by the farm owner, who has kept pigeons for many years.

The owner and his friends said they had no idea why the farm was coming under repeated attack.

The farm at Cudworth has been attacked 12 times in as many weeks
The owner's friend Arthur Holmes told BBC News: "He's scared. He won't say he's scared, but he's scared.

"He lives in the bungalow on his own and he's disabled. He can't walk and they're just coming and doing everything.

"I'm really upset for him, they're just wiping him out."

Describing the scene in the pigeon shed after Thursday's attack, he said: "There's little dead chicks, there's dead pigeons everywhere, broken eggs.

"They've pulled heads off, wings

[ladybirder]

OMG grannygrump, that's horrendous. And that poor man. If the police don't, I hope his friends and neighbours rally round and keep watch all night until they are caught. I would certainly take my turn if I lived nearby. What absolute b'stards

[boxtops]

That too is absolutely disgusting - whatever kicks some wierdos get from doing this, they need help.