there are some really mentally-deficient people out there in this world Eel killers caught on Facebook - Yahoo! New Zealand News Eels 'mindlessly slaughtered' in wildlife reserve - National - NZ Herald News Police consider charges over eel deaths | Otago Daily Times Online News : Otago, South Island, New Zealand & International News
This sort of thing seems to be happening once a month somewhere in either Australia or New Zealand. Yikes! What's going on down under?
I guess at least a-holes that are so vicious and stupid as to torture animals are also stupid enough to broadcast it to the planet and incriminate themselves. The initial response of the police was very unimpressive. It looks like public pressure got them off their butts finally.
I remember a similar thing happened there or at the other place years ago, several Maori claiming customary fishing rights walked in and gaffed a nummber of huge old eels. Nothing was ever done about that though, the police said it was out of their hands as eel fishing wasn't against the law and technically the eels weren't owned. Be interesting to see if they come up with anything this time.