Hamster-Related News Story

[Louise]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4623754.stm

 

Two students who sent a hamster through the post as a drunken prank have been fined and banned from owning animals. So what else can't you put in a parcel?

 

The hamster found in a postbox is now named First Class.

 

And he's lucky to be alive. If he hadn't gnawed through the envelope and been spotted by the postman, he might have died in the sorting machine.

 

David Jordan and James Cole, both 19, admitted abandoning the animal in circumstances likely to cause it unnecessary suffering. They were both fined and banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

 

Not only were the two Cambridge University students committing a criminal offence, which they said they did when drunk and as an act of revenge, they were also breaking Royal Mail rules.

 

Really. One of the top Universities in the country, in the world even, and these idiots didn't think about what they were doing to the poor creature because they were drunk. Just goes to show that being intelligent has nothing to do with having compassion. Lots of animal-related British idiot stories lately, what with the penguin and all. Shame.