Teens arrested for allegedly killing two sharks at Long Beach aquarium

[russian33]

Four teenagers were arrested for allegedly killing two sharks that were dragged from their aquarium tanks and tortured to death, police said.

The vandals broke into the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach between 6 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday when it was closed, police said.

A 3-foot-long nurse shark named Michelle was found dead in bushes near her tank while an 18-inch bamboo shark was tossed onto an exit structure, said Perry Hampton, director of animal husbandry.

Also killed was a cow-nosed ray, a relative of the string ray, which appeared to have been stabbed and pounded with a pole, Hampton said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/11/09/state2317EST0206.DTL



Little sadists!

[puddycat]

1. Little freepers

[bushisanidiot]

2. Young Freepers of America initiations going on again?

sounds like it.

However, these young teens will not be accepted this year because they apparently left their guns in their pickup trucks, and as we all know.. freepers fish with guns.

tsk.. tsk.. tsk..

[DBoon]

3. I thought they fished with hand grenades

because they didn't want to be out-macho'd by Saddam Hussein

[Endangered Specie]

4. I say we put them in a tank naked with about 50 pihrana

and someone please get a stopwatch :evilgrin:

[Aiptasia]

5. Wussies

Geez, a 3 foot long nurse shark? A little tiger striped bamboo shark and a ray with no teeth.

Proof that freeper kids can kill animals 1/10th their size when they outnumber them by 4 to 1.... that is.....

If they get the drop on them...

Idiots. They should have to carry the corpses in their backpacks and be forced to live with the rotting smell for two months. I thought there wasn't anything worse than smelling rotting squid till I smelled rotting shark.

Man, I would be such a "shame" oriented judge.

[redqueen]

6. Future serial killers?

:grr: