Students Could Be Fined For Tossing Guinea Pig Out Dorm Window

[matcom]

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Some Indiana University students could face a hefty fine for tossing a guinea pig from a dormitory window with a makeshift parachute.

The students used a garbage bag, dental floss and masking tape to create a parachute and then dropped the animal, Bloomington Animal Shelter manager Leigh Ann Hoffacker said.

Fortunately, the guinea pig landed in a tree and survived. The trembling rodent was discovered moments later by a freshman.

School janitors were able to reach the animal through a third-floor window and Robinson took it to the shelter.

The identities of the students who tossed the guinea pig have yet to be determined, but Hoffacker said the list has been narrowed down by dorm administration.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4010348/detail.html

[Misunderestimator]

1. Fined? They should be kicked out of school.

[Lavender Brown]

2. Bunch of psychos

:mad:

[On the Road]

3. Reminds Me of the Horoscope in The Onion:

"You know you really should stop tossing handfuls of live hamsters from the car window, but they're just so darn cute."

[ET Awful]

4. So if they'd used a real parachute instead of a makeshift parachute

does that mean they wouldn't have been in trouble?

Poor little rodent.

Yes, I'm chuckling because it sounds like something I would have done as a child . . . not at college age, maybe junior high.

At least the poor fuzzball wasn't injured.

[frictionlessO]

5. quite heartless, and also quite assinine...

7th grade college students.

[Squatch]

6. "trembling rodent"...Question, don't they always tremble?

I've always thought it weird the way guinea pigs always shimmer and shake. Like they're cold.

[Coventina]

7. They should have used the "parachute" on themselves

Cowards.
:mad: