Saturday, 17 September 2011

Creative Cruelty

Police are hunting yobs who spray-painted a donkey so it looked like a zebra.
Or rather, so that it looked like a donkey spray painted with black and white stripes…
Another donkey had an obscene image spray-painted across its body.
We don’t get a picture of this one, sad to say.
This was not the first time animals at Uckfield-based Sussex Horse Rescue Trust have been used as living canvases by graffiti artists.

Sussex Police, the rescue centre and the RSPCA are investigating.
Yes, it’s cruel (I doubt non-toxic paint was used), but it’s at least a step up from the usual shooting/stabbing/poisoning.

And as ‘Harry’s Place’ notes, donkeys have it far, far worse in other countries.
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12 comments:

  1. Banksy17 September 2011 at 14:41

    It's just a first coat primer!

    Please come back after it has been sanded down and glossed.

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  2. SBC17 September 2011 at 15:33

    Oh Sweet Jesus, I can see the Daily Fail Head line already" C-ASS-HLESS! HARD WORKING BRITISH DONKEYS FORCED TO DISGUISE AS FOREIGNERS TO CLAIM FREE NHS VET CARE!"

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  3. David Gillies17 September 2011 at 17:28

    My inner Brit softy comes out and says I hope the fuzz catch 'em and beat seven bells out of 'em. It used to be the highlight of a weekend when my parents would drive my sister and me out to the Donkey Sanctuary and give them a fiver or a tenner or whatever they could afford (this would be late 70's) while we got to stroke the lovely, gentle, wise-looking donkeys, who would come gently trotting over to say hello, and feed them contraband carrots and apples. There were goats there, too, but they were much more mercenary. If donkeys were dogs, goats were cats.

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  4. Lord T17 September 2011 at 18:04

    The penalty will be severe in this country of animal lovers unless of course it is Banksy with a bit of animal cruelty instead of vandalism and trespass. Then the living canvases will be executed, stuffed and put in a art gallery.

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  5. Zaphod17 September 2011 at 19:38

    I wish I was mature enough to not find this funny. :-)

    No, really, it's not funny!

    Snork.

    I'd find it even funnier though if the culprits were painted in stripes and placed in the stocks. That would be fair, they'd have to agree.

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  6. Anonymous17 September 2011 at 19:47

    Whilst not funny...I am pissing myself with laughter :)

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  7. MTG17 September 2011 at 20:14

    This is absolutely hideous; the work of cretins who probably acted upon a crazy impulse.

    Always ask for 3M Scotch® Water Resistant Masking Tape, by name.

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  8. John Pickworth17 September 2011 at 21:06

    To add to the poor animal's already confused identity, the sanctuary has named it 'Ant'... unsurprisingly, as Ant'nee is also a common name amongst Newcastle supporters.

    A sanctuary worker also informs us that "Donkeys do not have a waterproof coat so we were Very Very lucky the weather has been warm. Poor Ant, he is so so sweet and kind. I feel so sad that an animal of his age has been humiliated."

    Waterproof coat you say? Mmmmm maybe they should have gone for the yacht varnish after all? Okay, such frippery in these straightened times but if a jobs worth doing, eh?

    As for the humiliation? Damn right. It is an animal after all. I've written to the Argus editor asking why they didn't think to pixelate the poor creature's face in their published photo?

    Finally, a gentle word for Jason Stokes aged 8 of Uckfield primary school: The game is called 'pin the tail on the donkey' and not 'PAINT a TAIL on the donkey'! M'kay? Pedro (the other donkey) was most upset.

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  9. Anonymous18 September 2011 at 00:20

    I was sure your "donkeys have it far worse in other countries" link would take me to cracked.com...

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  10. Roue le Jour18 September 2011 at 06:18

    Which reminds me of the old joke about the guy who's budgie died when he painted it. "What did you expect?" Asked his friends. "Well it was alright last time." He says. "But it died when I tried to burn the old paint off with the blowlamp."

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  11. JuliaM18 September 2011 at 06:48

    "Please come back after it has been sanded down and glossed."

    LOL!

    "My inner Brit softy comes out and says I hope the fuzz catch 'em and beat seven bells out of 'em."

    If only... :(

    "I've written to the Argus editor asking why they didn't think to pixelate the poor creature's face in their published photo?"

    SNORK!

    "I was sure your "donkeys have it far worse in other countries" link would take me to cracked.com..."

    Yes, sorry about that!

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  12. John Pickworth18 September 2011 at 22:37

    Wooo a new craze...

    Animals sprayed by graffiti artist

    (BBC website // July 2003)

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