Subject: soccer player kicks teams lucky owl Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:03 pm
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A professional soccer player in Colombia faces up to three months in jail for kicking an opposing team's lucky owl, which had been been hit by a ball after landing on the field Sunday. The owl died Tuesday.
The owl was considered a good luck charm for the Atlético Junior squad in Barranquilla and lived in its Metropolitan Stadium.
Luis Moreno, a Panamanian player for Deportivo Pereira, was met with chants of "Murderer! Murderer! Murderer!" after kicking the owl and had to leave the stadium under heavy police guard, according to the Daily Mail in London. (The Daily Mail has video of the owl kick, or you can check it out on YouTube.)
For those too squeamish to watch the footage, which the Daily Mail warns constitutes animal cruelty, a Pereira defender chases a Junior attacker into the penalty box, wins the ball from him and clears it, poorly, hitting the owl that had landed on the field.
The referee stops play, and Moreno trots over and kicks the bird off the field, a distance of about three yards.
The incident was aired on national television and prompted widespread outrage, and not just from Junior fans. Environmental groups urged sanctions against Moreno and called for protests at the National Soccer building in Bogota.
Moreno apologized, saying it was not his intention to harm the bird.
"I did it to see if the owl could fly," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.
The owl was taken to Zoosalud veterinary clinic in Barranquilla, the Daily Mail reported. Veterinarians said it was suffering from stress and needed sedation but that X-rays indicated no fractures.
The veterinarians later told Colombia Reports, a news website, that the owl died early Tuesday of respiratory arrest.
A Spanish-language report from Radio Santa Fe in Bogota said that Moreno faces one to three months in prison and a maximum fine of 50,000 pesos, about $26.
Moreno apologized again in a news conference and said he would accept responsibility.
"I apologize to the whole country and more to the fans of Barranquilla because it was a very grave action, and if I receive a penalty, then I'll take it."
Subject: Re: soccer player kicks teams lucky owl Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:28 pm
i guess the owl wasn't so lucky after all...
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Subject: Re: soccer player kicks teams lucky owl Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:34 pm
killerofchicken wrote:
i guess the owl wasn't so lucky after all...
LMAO
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Subject: Re: soccer player kicks teams lucky owl Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:53 pm
The proper thing to do would of been to gently take the injured owl in his hands and twist the torso and head in opposing directions until you hear a minimum of four pops. What he did was cruel.
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Subject: Re: soccer player kicks teams lucky owl Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:57 pm
GDPofDRC wrote:
The proper thing to do would of been to gently take the injured owl in his hands and twist the torso and head in opposing directions until you hear a minimum of four pops. What he did was cruel.
I dunno, owls have pretty flexible necks. I mean this ain't no chicken.
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