Group of Gibraltar's Barbary Apes To Be Killed

[Divine Discontent]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080418/ap_on_re_eu/gibraltar_barbary_apes



By HAROLD HECKLE Thu Apr 17, 8:45 PM ET

MADRID, Spain - A renegade group of Gibraltar's Barbary apes has annoyed residents so much that authorities announced plans Thursday to kill them.

A cluster of 25 Barbary apes — a species of monkey usually weighing about 15-25 pounds — moved to a popular beach-side area some months ago where they have been stealing food, entering rooms through open windows and harassing tourists, officials said.

The territory's tourism minister, Ernest Britto, has decided to kill the beach dwelling group, government spokesman Francis Cantos said.

"I can confirm that tourism minister Britto has decided to issue a license for a cull," said Cantos.

"The decision was not taken lightly. It is a last resort," Britto told the Gibraltar Chronicle newspaper.

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[Divine Discontent]

1. I'm thinking...

can't they round them up and move them into an area where they dump garbage and build them like a tiny retreat with toys and then they can go dig for food in the rubbage? Tourists could even go there and drop off food.

[flvegan]

2. How fucking DARE those animals interrupt human tourism.

Kill them. No...make them suffer first, they should send a message to other animals that might otherwise want to exist.

Fuck 'em. Animals are food and entertainment.

Right?

[Divine Discontent]

3. something like that! I'm surprised they're even shooting them with tranqs & not outright bullets

why does it matter when you're going to slaughter them, don't try and play sympathetic when your goal is to destroy the entire pack, just blow them to bits along the rock walls so the rest of 'em won't dare step foot near the coast!


sigh.....

[flvegan]

4. Pretty it up for the dipshit masses.

Oh, but they got tranq'd...it's okay. They didn't feel it. So, it's okay.

[xchrom]

5. so wildlife bothers people and you kill them?

what the fuck?!? what a nutty fuckin way to think.

[blue sky at night]

6. when will humans face the same fate?

You know that few people would think of it those terms, but we should all know that the time is coming...shit if you live in Iraq the time is long past when if you are in the way, fuck it you are dead. Wonder what the master of the chimps himself will say when he heres this one? I used to think the europeans were far ahead of us in their thinking.

[blondie58]

7. how very sad

and that picture of the mama and baby is so sweet- almost like a baby pic of Bush. I'm sure that he was cute at one time...