Assault with ... Hedgehog! - Neatorama

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!

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...?).

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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.

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"Hedgehogs don't kill people. People with hedgehogs kill people.

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I say we ban hegdehogs >=(

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

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I vote for an animal cruelty charge.

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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...

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i second that vote Ty!

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

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

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

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*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)

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if you outlaw hedgehogs, only outlaws will carry hedgehogs.

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thanks for the news

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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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