Assault With A Deadly Hedgehog
Posted on Monday, April 7, 2008A 27-year-old New Zealand man has been charged with assaulting a teenage boy, using a hedgehog.
According to Whakatane police, William Singalargh threw the animal at the 15-year-old causing “a large, red welt and several puncture marks.”
Senior Sergeant Bruce Jenkins, of Whakatane police said the suspect “was arrested shortly afterwards for assault with a weapon, namely the hedgehog”.
The police haven’t yet established if the impact killed the hedgehog, or if it was already dead when Mr Singalargh threw it at the boy.
You don’t believe me? Read it here: New Zealand Herald
Stumble it!
April 7th, 2008
Is he related to the NZ’er that was raped by a Koala and started speaking “Australian”?
April 7th, 2008
It was a wombat, not a Koala. :)
April 7th, 2008
It was Doug Howlett.
(Sorry, couldn’t help the gratuitously triumphalist Munster plug).
April 7th, 2008
Does it matter? Koalas have the same capacity for polyglotism-inducing rape as wombats.
April 7th, 2008
You’re quite wrong. Koalas, though cuddly in appearance, are much nastier than wombats. They have extremely sharp claws and can eviscerate a dog.
A koala I would not advise as a pet.
April 7th, 2008
But can that dog speak Australian therein? And, further, does it become a werekoala? Sorry I’ve just been reading Fustar.
April 8th, 2008
A koalanthrope
April 8th, 2008
Surely a lycanoala if we’re going to be strick on etymology?
April 8th, 2008
You draw it and I’ll agree with it.
April 8th, 2008
Better board up that catflap.
April 8th, 2008
Back to this guy with the hedgehog, what a prick
April 8th, 2008
I don’t know if the charges will stick.
April 9th, 2008
I thought for a brief moment this story was about one of my dogs, who loves nothing more than strewing the house with bigs of stuffed hedgehog guts….
April 9th, 2008
maybe it was Sonic the Hedgehog!
April 9th, 2008
Who was in control, the 27 year old or the hedgehog?
April 10th, 2008
with bigs? with bigs? was I high?
with PILES.
Jeez
April 11th, 2008
I’m wondering how the guy who threw it, picked it up in the first place. Unless it was asleep?? My mum had a dog once that tried to “attack” a hedgehog and only succeeded in cutting all his nose and face. Eliza, you must have a rottweiler or something do you? Poor hedgehogs get an awful time. They’re always plastered all over the road, or drowning in peoples fishponds. Now being used as weapons!