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I follow someone on Twitter called crazywtf who posts all sorts of crazy news stories. Today he posted one about a teenage boy who microwaved his brother’s hamster.

Apparently this warrants a four month spell in jail. Now I know it’s horribly cruel, and might well indicate a disturbed mind, but are we really jailing teenagers for stupid pranks now? Is a Hamster’s suffering worth any amount of human suffering? I don’t think it is.

By all means ostracise the boy. Microwaving hamsters is not socially acceptable. But not everything that is wrong should be a criminal matter.

I’m pretty sure these animal cruelty laws are just pandering to soft in the head tabloid readers. My mother would probably say the boy should be shot for doing that to a poor cute hamster, but honestly, worse things might happen to cows every day without anyone being jailed for it and she happily eats beef.

The RSPCA man said, “…as microwaves cook from the inside, the organ damage to this tiny animal must have been horrific”. Which just goes to show the sort of fuzzy-headed thinking we’re dealing with. Microwaves do not cook from the inside. But hey, if it gets you even more sympathy for the hamster, what does mere truth matter?

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