bobt Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch television show claimed to have knocked down a chain of more than 4.1 million dominoes Friday in a new world record, but organizers conceded the event was overshadowed by the earlier shooting of an errant sparrow. The sparrow was killed by an exterminator with an air rifle on Monday after it knocked down 23,000 dominoes. The killing was seen by many as an overreaction, and angered animal rights and bird protection groups. It later emerged that the house sparrow, though common, is classified as an endangered species in the Netherlands. Its population has halved in the past 20 years to less than 1 million breeding pairs, due to human encroachment on its territory. Domino Day organizers claimed that 4,155,476 dominoes successfully fell on Friday, bettering their own record of 3.9 million set last year and approved by Guinness World Records. The show's creator, Robin Paul Weijers, referring to the dead bird, said the record generated "mixed emotion." "We all feel terrible about what happened," he said. More than 5,000 people signed a condolence register on an impromptu Web site set up to honor the bird, and Dutch media reported that the guard who shot the bird received death threats. "I just wish we could channel all this energy that went into one dead sparrow into saving the species," said Hans Peeters, the head of the Dutch Bird Protection agency, who appealed Friday for calm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 unbelievable LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 Up until a couple of years ago the Dutch actually condoned child pornography and it was only because other European countries demanded action that they stopped it. Hypocritical ********. :< They are the worlds worst when it comes to banning anything to do with shooting, and even have a total ban on lead in all shotguns regardless of what is shot, even clays. Perhaps if they had cared as much for those children that they were allowing to be abused, as they did for that Sparrow, many children would have been saved from Dutch paedophiles. I think this country is trying to follow suit, as half the government seem to be homosexual and want to teach our kids how to indulge in homosexuality from as early an age as possible. :< G.M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 For once I am lost for words ............................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 For once I am lost for words ............................. I do not believe that.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 I asked for that didn't I? Come on Ferret Master, get the glib comments out of the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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