A flock of flamingos at a zoo came under attack by a group of
kids, armed with sticks and stones.
On March 10 at the Jihlava Zoo,
three young boys, ages 5, 6, and 8, climbed over the zoo fence and made their
way to the indoor American flamingo exhibit. Once in, they gathered wooden
sticks and baseball-sized rocks and began hurling them at the colony of 60
flamingos. One of the birds, a 16-year-old male, was pelted with rocks and then
kicked by one of the boys, eventually breaking its leg.
The boys ran
off, while the flamingo lay there with severed arteries and its snapped leg,
bleeding to death. A worker on the grounds heard an “unusual noise” and failed
to chase them down, but surveillance cameras caught them trying to get away. Two
of the boys were apprehended shortly after the attack, while the third escaped.
Local media reports the boys showed no remorse, and are unlikely to face charges
given that they are minors.
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