Animal carcasses dumped at home to protest baseball editorial

Several dead animals were deposited at the home of a Hillsdale Collegian editor, and a copy of the student paper was placed under a goat's head. It was this editorial about the school's baseball team that prompted the vandalism. The paper now says the attack on the team "was a mistake." (Hillsdale Collegian)

Comments

[USMerc]

Where'd they get the animals? And why aren't there animal cruelty charges being filed?

[Displaced]

This school has a Dean of Men.

[kronos]

Carcass-dumping and -dropping clubs are actually a longstanding social tradition in the Midwest:

http://electricstorytime.blogspot.com/2006/05/meeting-minutes-of-carcass-dropping.html

[Big Kahuna]

Dumped carcasses at the editor's home because they didn't like the article?

Yep, that sounds like the usual "swaggering" and brain dead athlete types I see everywhere.

The writer should have realized it's super unPC to point out that any team isn't a "winner" or that they lost or need work. Everyone is a winner in this society! Even the losers.

[twerp]

glad I don't live in the MidWest then.

[sometimesilie]

Why involve animals in your stupid, petty little bickerbitch with the local sports column? Stupid ain't even the word...

[MONKEY JERK]

JUST A BUNCH OF SPORTS IDIOTS IS ALL.

[lynn]

gross---i am soooo glad this is not in the south. in high school we stole a mascot once...well, the costume and tied it to the roof of our school.

no dead animals, tho'

[RockyMtnMac]

Nothing says school spirit like roadkill!

[creatrix]

So... did they kill the goat? Because, while it's nasty either way, I think dumping roadkill is different from killing something. It's the animal equivalent to abuse of a corpse vs. murder.

Sick.

[Student]

No animals were hurt, they were all roadkill. Come on people, have a sense of humor

[Reno]

Since when are animal carcasses funny? As in 'Haha, look at the dead doggie/kitty/squirrel! That is so bleeping funny!'? WTF?

[sometimesilie]

If they were roadkill, than they should have gone in the soup!

Worthwhile anecdote (or maybe not) from the radio last night:

People are absolutely in love with seeing zoo carnivores being given real animal carcasses at meal time (the zoo staff termed it as "enrichment"- break up the monotony and homogeneity of being stuck in a cage I guess).

But when the keepers suggested putting live animals in the tiger tank, the number of people "for it" (and boy were they "for" slipping in all manner of dead animals) became inverted. That is to say, nobody wanted to see it.

So human killing animals in a factory-farm for tiger fun (and c'mon, some of what goes on there is anything but humane) equals groovy, but animals doing what animals do to other animals equals not groovy.

People continue to puzzle the ever living sh!t out of me.

[lynn]

@ SIL: very interesting, especially when the same people think it is just the cutest thing to watch the cat torture a mouse prior to chomping and finally eating it(except the head or tail- whatever said cat saves to show the human)

do not try to understand people; you will only end up with a bad bad headache. and the desire to take people out on a shooting range, or walk around naked with the dog or calling 911 about getting ripped off in the local deli