Oh those Wacky Students
Jan. 18th, 2006 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hellisonAnd the zany hamster-posting pranks they get up to...
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/news/story/0,12891,1688415,00.html
Bizarre story. And possibly more disturbing because they're at Cambridge and, you'd *think* have at least some intellegence but with quotes like this, it appears not -
When asked why he gave a false name and address when purchasing the hamster, Jordan said: "Because I thought it would be a bit suspicious posting a hamster if I got caught."
Yes. Just a bit.
EDIT - according to the BBC they got fined and banned from owning animals for 10 years.
Personally I think this is going completely the wrong way. They should have been sent to work at a vets or animal shelter so they could see first hand what happens when people mistreat animals and hopefully learn a bit of empathy and feeling for something other than their over-priviledged selves.
Oh. And given a hefty kick up the arse too.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/news/story/0,12891,1688415,00.html
Bizarre story. And possibly more disturbing because they're at Cambridge and, you'd *think* have at least some intellegence but with quotes like this, it appears not -
When asked why he gave a false name and address when purchasing the hamster, Jordan said: "Because I thought it would be a bit suspicious posting a hamster if I got caught."
Yes. Just a bit.
EDIT - according to the BBC they got fined and banned from owning animals for 10 years.
Personally I think this is going completely the wrong way. They should have been sent to work at a vets or animal shelter so they could see first hand what happens when people mistreat animals and hopefully learn a bit of empathy and feeling for something other than their over-priviledged selves.
Oh. And given a hefty kick up the arse too.
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Date: 2006-01-18 11:26 am (UTC)They try to buy a hamster, and are refused because they're drunk. They go back again sober, and get one.
Yep, sounds premeditated to me.
Fuckwits. I just hope any future employers search for their names in Google and find these articles.
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Date: 2006-01-18 01:54 pm (UTC)Actually, so far as I know, the only occurrence of "Hannah Kilpatrick" that applies to me is a translation of "the marriage of figaro" into English which I submitted to the Aria Database, so it could be worse...
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Date: 2006-01-18 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-19 02:20 am (UTC)oh no! bearer of fungi!
ok ok it's a bit tangential but....
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Date: 2006-01-19 02:22 am (UTC)*peers*
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Date: 2006-01-19 02:34 am (UTC)