Oh those Wacky Students

[hellison]

And 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.

Comments

[whit-merule.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness, if every future employee searched for all our names and aliases on Google before employing... *gulps*

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...

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Thankfully this is where having a ridiculously common name comes in handy ;)

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

But seeing as your user ID means songTHRUSH....!!

oh no! bearer of fungi!

ok ok it's a bit tangential but....

[whit-merule.livejournal.com]

ye-es... yes, I can see that...
*peers*

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

huh. makesperfectsensetomemuttermutter...