Assault with … Hedgehog!

Posted by Alex in Animal, Crime & Law on April 7, 2008 at 3:36 pm


This has got to be one of the strangest crimes ever: an assault with … (poor) hedgehog!

Police said William Singalargh, 27, had hurled the hedgehog about 5m (16ft) at a 15-year-old boy.

"It hit the victim in the leg, causing a large, red welt and several puncture marks," said Senior Sgt Bruce Jenkins, in the North Island town of Whakatane.

It was unclear whether the hedgehog was still alive when it was thrown, though it was dead when collected as evidence.

The police spokesman said the suspect was arrested "for assault with a weapon, namely the hedgehog."

Link (photo: a West European Hedgehog, by TygerTyger [Wikipedia]) - Thanks Paul Cooper and Edward!



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15 comments to "Assault with … Hedgehog!"

  1. Tempscire
    April 7th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    Poor hedgehog. :( Wonder if they could autopsy it and charge him for animal abuse, too, if it wasn’t already dead when it was thrown (but then why did he have a dead hedgehog…?).

  2. Ali S.
    April 7th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    Ouch. I think if they want to slap on a few more charges they go ahead and look at animal cruelty and unsanitary disposal of an animal corpse.

  3. the robot child
    April 7th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    “Hedgehogs don’t kill people. People with hedgehogs kill people.

  4. CheeseDuck
    April 7th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    I say we ban hegdehogs >=(

  5. weymes
    April 7th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    this is more a terrible case of animal cruelty than anything.. i cant abide things like this ..

  6. Ty
    April 7th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    I vote for an animal cruelty charge.

  7. catsvillage
    April 7th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    I own hedgehogs and it HAD to be alive when thrown in order to have made puncture wounds, it puffs up when threatened, rolls into a ball causing the quills to stick out. DAMN I hope they charge this IDIOT with animal cruelty as well. Poor Hedggie and kid, that musta hurt.

    wonder if it was the kid’s hedgehog, even more cruel…

  8. su.wei
    April 8th, 2008 at 2:49 am

    i second that vote Ty!

  9. NiteWhite
    April 8th, 2008 at 10:13 am

    I feel bad for the hedgehog but if it didn’t die we wouldn’t have this amazing story.

  10. fsmarch
    April 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    From what catsvillage had to say, about the critter being alive, I think that animal cruelty charges should be filed… with extreme prejudice.

  11. Peter
    April 8th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    Quite obviously, terrorists will soon use hegehogs as their choice tool of terror and hedgehogs will be banned in california

  12. liphttam1
    April 8th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    *disclaimer the sega company had nothing to do with this*

    * disclamer disclamer Oh I think they did!

    (sonic the hedghog if you don’t know)

  13. Thomas
    April 8th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    if you outlaw hedgehogs, only outlaws will carry hedgehogs.

  14. MoJo
    May 4th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    thanks for the news

  15. J Da Muss
    May 29th, 2008 at 1:25 am

    We have no problems about aiming our vehicles at the poor little blighters on our roads (not that I do), but throw one at a 15 year old and the world spits spines (get it?…spits tax?…The wife said not to comment)!


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