Parachuting donkey shocks Russian beachgoers

[Hyde]

Parachuting donkey shocks Russian beachgoers​

Updated at: 1306 PST, Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Parachuting donkey shocks Russian beachgoers MOSCOW: Russian beachgoers got a shock when they saw a donkey soaring in the blue skies over the balmy beaches on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia last week, police said on Tuesday.

Attached to a parachute, the animal screamed in fear as it circled over heads of holidaymakers sunbathing on a beach in the Cossack village of Golubitskaya in the Krasnodar region last week.

A regional police spokeswoman said the donkey ended up in the skies as a result of an impromptu advertising campaign by several Russian entrepreneurs to attract beachgoers to their private beach.

Instead, they attracted the attention of regional police who learned of the flying donkey earlier this week and launched a probe.

"The donkey screamed and children cried," regional police spokeswoman Larisa Tuchkova said. "No-one had the brains to call police."

Instead, she said, people reached for their cameras and bombarded a local newspaper with phone calls.

"It was put up so high into the sky that the children on the beach cried and asked their parents: "Why did they tie a doggy to a parachute?" the newspaper, Taman, said this week.

"The donkey landed in an atrocious manner: it was dragged several metres along the water, after which the animal was pulled out half-alive onto the shore."

 

[Hyde]

 

[Dance]

That's horrible, talk about animal abuse. Poor donkey!

 

[somebozo]

Russian are known for totally absurd experiments.
but its funny as hell.

 

[Jigs]

That is pretty sick. I hope they arrest them. Idiots.

 

[ptldM3]

That is pretty sick. I hope they arrest them. Idiots.

Don't be so judgemental, it sounded like a good idea at the time

 

[Jigs]

That is a big pet peeve of mine. I can't stand people doing anything to hurt or scare animals for profit or amusement.

 

[Old School]

Laws on animal cruelty are very weak in Russia. Killing the great Siberian tigers or bears for fun is a lucrative enterprise in Russia.

 

[flyinfishjoe]

Life is so strange!

 

[Kompromat]

only in Russia

 

[Dark Angel]

Well they dont say From russia with love for no reason

 

[SMC]

What? That's a ride of a lifetime. I would consider myself lucky if it was me instead of the donkey.

 

[Agni 5]

Where is amenesty. Animal cruelty is sick.

 

[Zeluvaa]

What? That's a ride of a lifetime. I would consider myself lucky if it was me instead of the donkey.

I'm pretty sure you won't be considering yourself lucky when you are dragged for a few meters and pulled half-alive out of the water.

This is sick, talk about animal abuse! How does a screaming donkey tied to a parachute attract one to a private beach?

 

[indushek]

Really very sick and makes me angry and i am a animal lover. The perpetrators of this sick idea should be punished.