"Europe’s Insane History of Putting Animals on Trial ..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 26 Sep 2014 10:15 p.m. PST |
…and Executing Them. "On September 5, 1379, two herds of pigs at a French monastery grew agitated and killed a man named Perrinot Muet. As was custom at the time, the pigs—the actual murderers and those that had simply looked on—were tried for their horrible crime, and sentenced to death. You see, with their "cries and aggressive actions," the onlookers "showed that they approved of the assault," and mustn't be allowed to escape justice. But the monastery's prior, Friar Humbert de Poutiers, couldn't bear to suffer the economic loss of all those pigs. So he wrote to the Duke of Burgundy, pleading for him to pardon the onlookers (the friar would allow the three murderers to suffer their fate—he was no scofflaw, after all). The duke "lent a gracious ear to his supplication and ordered that the punishment should be remitted and the swine released." Records don't show just how the three pigs were executed, though it was common for offending animals to be hanged or burned alive for their crimes. Such is Europe's shameful and largely forgotten history of putting animal "criminals" on trial and either executing them or, for plagues of insects, ordering them to leave town not only by a certain day, but by an exact time. Such irrational barbarism is hard to fathom, but as early as 824 all the way up to the middle of the 18th century, animals were held to the same moral standards as humans, suffering the same capital punishments and even rotting in the same jails…"
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| Chris Wimbrow | 27 Sep 2014 3:02 a.m. PST |
No trial, but 20th century Americans have been pretty silly as well. link |
 etotheipi  | 27 Sep 2014 6:37 a.m. PST |
There are worse things that trial and execution … link |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 27 Sep 2014 6:59 a.m. PST |
to be fair, they only execute the guilty ones. |
| Tango01 | 27 Sep 2014 11:41 a.m. PST |
LOL! (Smile) Amicalement
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| Dagwood | 27 Sep 2014 2:10 p.m. PST |
And there was the monkey hanged in Hartlepool for being a French spy …. |
 Saber6   | 27 Sep 2014 8:16 p.m. PST |
Records don't show just how the three pigs were executed, though it was common for offending animals to be hanged or burned alive for their crimesSounds like a BBQ to me
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| tkdguy | 28 Sep 2014 12:04 a.m. PST |
I have been considering suing some raccoons for damages to my backyard, but I suspect those deadbeats won't pay up. |
| John the Greater | 29 Sep 2014 1:58 p.m. PST |
Records don't show just how the three pigs were executed Didn't the Wolf have to blow their houses down to get at them? |
| tkdguy | 29 Sep 2014 8:28 p.m. PST |
They just wanted pork chops for dinner. |
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