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Italian teacher jailed for killing rabbits in class

The teacher had ordered delivery of four dead rabbits in order to dissect them, but two arrived alive.

AN ITALIAN TEACHER has been sentenced to eight months in prison for killing two rabbits with a hammer in front of his pupils in an anatomy class, the animal protection association LAV said on Wednesday.

Carlo Rando, a trained surgeon, had ordered a delivery of four dead rabbits to be dissected for his class, the association said in a statement.

Two were dead when they arrived but the two surviving ones escaped into the classroom before being captured by the teacher.

He first tried to strangle them, then punched them and finally finished them off with a hammer in front of terrified teens, LAV said.

“Horrific scenes worthy of an abattoir were played out in front of minors,” the group said, hailing “the courage of other teachers and pupils who wanted to denounce the terrible actions of their teacher”.

Michela Kuan, a biologist working for LAV, said:

Such barbaric methods are unacceptable not just from an ethical standpoint but also because they are completely useless since anatomy is no longer taught by dissecting animals.

- © AFP, 2012

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:45 AM

    It’s a day for the high stool I think..

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:42 AM

    I just laid a high stool….now it’s a low stool!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:44 AM

    Fluichy ar lá

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:01 AM

    Journal, what’s with the file photo? Can’t you people point your phone out of the window and take a picture of the actual storm effects?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:08 AM

    The Jpurnal is based I Dublin and the worst of the storm is happening initially in the west of the country and they don’t have a camera with a two hundred mile zoom lens.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:10 AM

    They don’t have windows because you don’t click their ads. :(

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:12 AM

    @DMcE talk about looking for something to complain about! Can you not picture a storm in your head or look out your own window?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:47 AM

    Dam the cliffs are closed.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:14 AM

    Drove on m50 slow down people

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:47 AM

    Today the council are out putting boiling tar into holes filled with water and throwing gravel on top.. its not going to stay .. why is this always done in the rain ???

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:20 AM

    What idiot council is doing that?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:21 AM

    water conservation !

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:53 AM

    Have to spend the budget before the end of the year. Could do a bit of planning and fill the potholes earlier in the year

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:47 PM

    Don’t forget to turn the tap off when washing your teeth, its all about water conservation after all?.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:56 AM

    Ugghh have to go to work in that. More of a day for the high stool

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:41 AM

    I don’t mean to poke holes but that headline picture looks alot like Toronto and their street cars in the background?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:53 AM

    It’s alright ye all can go back out tuesday we have a meeting in Dublin to see we can we batten down storm austerity which has been raging for years

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:05 AM

    You’re some saucepan Derek… I really hope you get soaked today

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:13 AM

    And Tuesday

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    Dec 5th 2015, 3:49 PM

    Cathal I wonder who pi$$ed on Derek’s cornflakes???

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:14 AM

    Cathal rather be a saucepan than a colander and have all drained out of me without trying to put a stop to it

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:29 AM

    Empty vessels make most noise

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:32 AM

    And the more noise the better

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:08 AM

    Did last sat not today though don’t like the same medicine over and over again like to try and do something about it

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:32 AM

    Some one spitting their dodie out …awhhhhhh. Did ya git out of your homeless sleeping bag on the wrong side this morning.. jockd ?? ,yellow to the front , brown to the back. Derek

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:39 AM

    Gem Larkin do not insult the name give it hack

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    Dec 5th 2015, 4:02 PM

    Fcuk off Dessie!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:17 AM

    A tarzans mate whether it rains or not Jane I’ll be there

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:44 AM

    Lol

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    Dec 5th 2015, 4:51 PM

    We’re not in Kanas anymore Toto !

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    Dec 5th 2015, 4:36 PM

    I was coming back home last night (well…. early morning… 3.00 am) with my Vespa…. I can tell I challenged several laws of physics driving my scooter around…. but was fun!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:35 PM

    Went for a run then shopping, dinner and pints, you’re all wimps

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:42 PM

    Went t bring me dogs for walk ths mornin.the look on their faces.”No fkn way u gettn us out in that lad, p**ss off “

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:26 PM

    You can fly to Donegal?!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:37 AM

    Haha see all hear all assummption making know damn all lackey

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    Dec 5th 2015, 4:47 PM

    Meanwhile the government argues for an exemption from carbon emissions targets at the Paris conference. Didn’t someone tell these storms that we’re exempt? #denial

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    Dec 6th 2015, 9:20 AM

    I was in Dublin yesterday & while it was raining up to 12 noon it cleared up good enough with some squally outbursts but nothing compared to what other counties got.. There was still a lot of dry intervals.. When i got back to cork last night it was bucketing again..

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:47 PM

    I drove from Dublin to athlone earlier today,to say it was an unpleasant experience is an understatement

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:03 PM

    Storm Desmond! Almost makes the bad weather sound kinda’ alright and that it’s even a bit of craic. Can’t wait to hear the future news about ‘Storm Jack Cruise’ and its ….Gaels of Laughter, Ha! .
    Weather you wouldn’t even leave a ladder out in, I think?

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