Disaster Kangaroo gets stoned to death in chinese zoo - Hop kangaroo hop

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A kangaroo was stoned to death in a Chinese zoo — apparently for the same reason that a brown bear was oncecrushed to death by Russian videographers, and a shark in Florida was dragged behind a motorboat like a kite.

That is, to gratify a human.

The kangaroo — a 12-year-old female whose name is not known — was not hopping enough to amuse spectators at the Fuzhou Zoo late last February, the New York Times reported, quoting Chinese media.

So someone picked up a rock. Or it might have been a brick or slab of concrete, Agence France-Presse wrote. In any case, it wasn’t unusual for visitors to this zoo in southeast China to provoke animals with projectiles.

“Some adults see the kangaroos sleeping and then pick up rocks to throw at them,” a zookeeper told the Haixia Metropolis News, as reported by the Times. Employees tried to dissuade the crowd, the worker said, but “after we cleared the display area of rocks, they went to find them elsewhere.”

By the time zookeepers rescued the kangaroo from the crowd, AFP reported, her foot was nearly severed.

Details of the attack were first made public this week, when Chinese television stations broadcast images of the kangaroo lying battered in its enclosure, and then hooked to an intravenous drip, on which she survived for several days before succumbing to internal bleeding.

One of the stones had ruptured the animal’s kidney, veterinarians discovered after the autopsy, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. wrote.

Had the attacks ended then, they might be no more sadistic than any other to occur at a Chinese zoo, which AFP reports are lightly regulated and therefore especially prone to abuse. Last summer, for example, investors involved in a dispute with a zoo in Jiangsu province released a donkey into the tiger pen, with predictable results.

But the Fuzhou stonings didn’t end with that kangaroo’s death. Just a few weeks later, the agency wrote, visitors attacked and injured a five-year-old ’roo for similar reasons. It survived.

In nearly every media interview, zoo workers stressed that it’s against the rules to bludgeon the animal, but people keep doing it anyway. Having apparently given up on the prospect of voluntary civility, AFP wrote, the zoo now plans to install more security cameras.

The zoo also plans to stuff and display the dead kangaroo — as a sort of memorial to whatever it might now symbolize.

RIP @Dynastia

 

[Randall Fragg]

Fucking chinks man. Literal locust people.
Japan did nothing wrong in Nanking.

 

[polonium]

Aussies love getting stoned

 

[omori]

Let's stone the Chinese.

 

[CWCchange]

The kangaroo took a Great Leap Forward.

 

[Plunkie]

Welcome to China! Stare at your phone! Eat gutter sludge! Watch a parent hoist a child over a trash can to spray liquid shit everywhere! Stone a zoo animal!

 

[Raptorkin]

I don't know if it has to do with the massive cultural destruction from the communist revolution, but there's something so weird about how a lot of Chinese people seem to have no respect in public areas. They spit everywhere - on the train, in stores... Horrible tourists too, just no respect for historical and cultural landmarks. And apparently it's a normal thing for adults to throw rocks at zoo animals. Anyone know why this is?

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Okay, serious question this time. Why do the Chinese hate animals so much? From keeping bears in "crush cages" with tubes in them to drain their bile, to a laughing mob of 100 people (that included 20 policemen and 40 security guards) bludgeoning and shooting a pair of Tibetan Mastiffs to death for just accidentally wandering into a city, to these fuckers in this article who not only stoned a kangaroo to death, they got more stuff to throw at it once the workers got rid of all the rocks, and then tried to do the same thing to another kangaroo just weeks later, it feels like no other country seems to hate animals as much as China does.

Just why? Is it even hate? Is it just pure indifference? Is it both? Seriously, what is the reason for this?

 

[RG 448]

Just use them to solve the “bears aren’t eating enough humans” problem in similar exhibits.

 

[PsychoNerd054]

Pretty big loss, but at least they got themselves some supper.

Seriously, these people eat some of the weirdest shit. And then we got this!

 

[Iodised Ant]

We nuked the wrong slants.

 

[HomeAloneTwo]

I bet one or two armed security guards would dissuade anybody throwing anything when they pull out their gun. Although it is China, they'd probably stone the guards and proceed to shoot all the animals.

 

[repentance]

Maybe other countries should stop giving animals to Chinese zoos.

 

[Lysol]

If they really gave a shit they'd put some glass or a mesh net or something between the enclosure and the visitors. That said, that's fucking disgusting, what a bunch of soulless, heartless fucks.

 

[millais]

I don't know if it has to do with the massive cultural destruction from the communist revolution, but there's something so weird about how a lot of Chinese people seem to have no respect in public areas. They spit everywhere - on the train, in stores... Horrible tourists too, just no respect for historical and cultural landmarks. And apparently it's a normal thing for adults to throw rocks at zoo animals. Anyone know why this is?

The poor public behavior and social etiquette of Mainland Chinese is almost purely due to the lingering effects of the Cultural Revolution. In other Chinese societies like Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the pre-communist Overseas Chinese communities, the underlying norms and dictates of traditional Confucianism exert strong pressure on people to behave respectfully in public. In Mainland China, the Cultural Revolution destroyed that, as the Confucian ethical model was derided as a backwards feudal system that elevated certain classes above the masses. Sure, there are issues with Confucian ideology's inherently ingrained model of social inequality, but the Cultural Revolution replaced it with a more "egalitarian" value system where everyone is a peasant who disregards bourgeois social niceties, so everyone is equally shitty to everyone, and they were ok with it because that was the closest they could get to the ideal classless society.

 

[OhGoy]

Welcome to China! Stare at your phone! Eat gutter sludge! Watch a parent hoist a child over a trash can to spray liquid shit everywhere! Stone a zoo animal!

Don't forget continuously driving over people until they're dead so the punishment isn't as bad!

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

Okay, serious question this time. Why do the Chinese hate animals so much? From keeping bears in "crush cages" with tubes in them to drain their bile, to a laughing mob of 100 people (that included 20 policemen and 40 security guards) bludgeoning and shooting a pair of Tibetan Mastiffs to death for just accidentally wandering into a city, to these fuckers in this article who not only stoned a kangaroo to death, they got more stuff to throw at it once the workers got rid of all the rocks, and then tried to do the same thing to another kangaroo just weeks later, it feels like no other country seems to hate animals as much as China does.

Just why? Is it even hate? Is it just pure indifference? Is it both? Seriously, what is the reason for this?

Animals are part of the bourgeois and are thus class enemies. Read Mao's book comrade.

 

[Ntwadumela]

Zoos in Mainland China (as well as a few other developing countries like Egypt, India, etc.) really do tend to be the worst in the world, but this is especially abhorrent.

 

[Dysnomia]

I don't know if it has to do with the massive cultural destruction from the communist revolution, but there's something so weird about how a lot of Chinese people seem to have no respect in public areas. They spit everywhere - on the train, in stores... Horrible tourists too, just no respect for historical and cultural landmarks. And apparently it's a normal thing for adults to throw rocks at zoo animals. Anyone know why this is?

I always hear that mainland Chinese are the worst tourists. Remember when they broke all those cherry trees in Japan climbing up into them to take selfies?

They can't even control themselves at local attractions. I'm sure this will sadly happen again no matter what the zookeepers do to prevent it. Poor kangaroo.

 

[omori]

I always hear that mainland Chinese are the worst tourists. Remember when they broke all those cherry trees in Japan climbing up into them to take selfies?

They can't even control themselves at local attractions. I'm sure this will sadly happen again no matter what the zookeepers do to prevent it. Poor kangaroo.

I heard Shanghai Disneyland is a fucking shitshow: kids shitting and pissing in planters, shrubbery being trampled, various buildings being defaced, areas with no public access being walked through, and people trampling over others in line.