I hope these folks meet with a horrible fate...

[Groundhog]

Mutilated koala bashed, then dismembered | NEWS.com.au

Mutilated koala bashed, then dismembered

By Glenis Green
August 22, 2008 12:04am

A SHOCKINGLY mutilated koala found dead on a property at Clear Mountain in Queensland has become the latest victim in a string of recent attacks on the Australian icon.

Caboolture Koala Care & Rescue spokeswoman Anika Lehmann said her team had been called this week to the Branch Creek Rd property northwest of Brisbane, where the owner, a police officer, had found the dead koala with a surgically removed left hindquarter.

Ms Lehmann said there was no blood, indicating it had probably been dumped there.

"It was a four-year-old male koala and we took it to the Australian Wildlife Hospital (at Australia Zoo at Beerwah) for a post-mortem," she said.
The post-mortem examination established it had been killed by extensive abdominal trauma, with the leg amputated after death.

"They reckoned it was the subject of a bashing death," said Ms Lehmann.
Earlier this month, a baby koala was killed and another female koala and its joey were battered by rocks and sticks by a gang of young men in a Kallangur park, in Brisbane's outer north.

Police are investigating these attacks. The dead 300g joey had sustained a broken right arm, crushed skull and damaged eye.

The rescued mother koala and baby have since made a full recovery at the wildlife hospital.

Ms Lehmann said at the time that the same gang had been responsible for nailing live magpies and cane toads to trees in Jim Akers Park off Sylvester Drive at Kallangur.

[RomaGoth]

Too many sick bastards in this world. I think a gang of young koalas should beat those guys with sticks and rocks, then perform "emergency surgery" on them. Karma, baby, Karma.

[BrianD]

I don't get acts like this. Doing harm to any animal is awfully distasteful, but a koala? Aren't they about as gentle and non-problem-causing a wild animal as you can find?

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by BrianD

I don't get acts like this. Doing harm to any animal is awfully distasteful, but a koala? Aren't they about as gentle and non-problem-causing a wild animal as you can find?

You must not watch the Simpsons.

[MikeVic]

Did you watch The Simpsons episode where the Koala looked like it would do some damage?

But seriously, this is messed up.

edit: Dammit, beaten by CR.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by MikeVic

Did you watch The Simpsons episode where the Koala looked like it would do some damage?

But seriously, this is messed up.

edit: Dammit, beaten by CR.

Heh...one of my favorite episodes.

But, yeah, not to detract from what this thread is about. Anyone who does this to an innocent animal deserves a special sort of death, and then should be revived and healed to go through it again.

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by BrianD

I don't get acts like this. Doing harm to any animal is awfully distasteful, but a koala? Aren't they about as gentle and non-problem-causing a wild animal as you can find?

Indeed they are. Well, they'd bite and scratch if you tried to catch one with your hands, but they sleep like 99% of the day and do nothing but eat leaves.

Completely senseless.

[Julio Riddols]

If koalas were more like Pokemon this wouldn't happen. They have the cute part down, now they just have to learn some better attacks than the basic bite and scratch.

[Kodos]

People who torture animals should be run through a woodchipper. Slowly.

[molson]

Originally Posted by Kodos

People who torture animals should be run through a woodchipper. Slowly.

Feet-first.

[BrianD]

Can we make it a dull woodchipper?