[Football] Kurt Zouma

[sydney]

when do we play them next...?? theres gotta be a song there lads for sure.

 

[jamie (not that one)]

Police not going to investigate apparently

Past incident, which they can't investigate, most likely. Didn't know Zouma had a side gig at Number 10.

 

[herecomesaregular]

Couldn't get the video to play?

Confession time: when I was 19 I kicked our cat once. And I have spent the last 30 years feeling guilty about it. Never forgotten what I did in a fit of annoyance. I loved that cat. I treat my own (rescue) cat like a queen.

Hopefully, it was a one off and he'll live and learn too.

 

[The Fits]

Total nut job. We are living in a truly strange time. More than the actual cruelty it’s the naivety and blasé attitude around how he was likely to be perceived once it inevitably went viral. Obviously a dubious character indeed.

 

[Rambo]

I sincerely hope the RSPCA remove the cat from his 'care'.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Couldn't get the video to play?

Confession time: when I was 19 I kicked our cat once. And I have spent the last 30 years feeling guilty about it. Never forgotten what I did in a fit of annoyance. I loved that cat. I treat my own (rescue) cat like a queen.

Hopefully, it was a one off and he'll live and learn too.

Yeah l know what you mean, l treated our cat like **** when l was a kid, and feel sooo guilty about it now l'm an adult.

Like you l have had several rescue cats over the years, and treat them all with so much respect now.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Vile...absolutely vile. The laughing you hear, & treating it as a "joke" (as evidenced on the video), 100% shoots down his half arsed apology. Hes just sorry he got caught. Total scumbag.

 

[Mellotron]

Don't F**K with Cats.

That was a grimly fascinating documentary.

 

[peterward]

Shame the game has changed and there are no enforcers left anymore. In the old days you would've been able to count on Jones/Pearce/Dicks/Keane to give him a good kick this weekend to see how he likes it.

What would be poetic justice, is 4 or 5 burley fellas dressed up in cat costumes, give Zouma a dose of his own medicine then post that to snapchat

 

[schmunk]

What would be poetic justice, is 4 or 5 burley fellas dressed up in cat costumes, give Zouma a dose of his own medicine then post that to snapchat

Just one-on-one - this is a fight I could get behind.

 

[The Optimist]

Couldn't get the video to play?

Confession time: when I was 19 I kicked our cat once. And I have spent the last 30 years feeling guilty about it. Never forgotten what I did in a fit of annoyance. I loved that cat. I treat my own (rescue) cat like a queen.

Hopefully, it was a one off and he'll live and learn too.

This was not the same. It seemed to be done in a calm manner as a 'joke'.

 

[happypig]

Yes I think so but only private prosecutions

Technically it's a private prosecution but it's heard in the Magistrate's court and (IIRC) requires the same level of proof, ie beyond reasonable doubt.

There was a plan to stop these and, instead, pass details to the CPS.

 

[bluenitsuj]

What a ****

 

[Badger Boy]

8 lives left

Look what the cat dragged in.

 

[marlowe]

Couldn't get the video to play?

Confession time: when I was 19 I kicked our cat once. And I have spent the last 30 years feeling guilty about it. Never forgotten what I did in a fit of annoyance. I loved that cat. I treat my own (rescue) cat like a queen.

Hopefully, it was a one off and he'll live and learn too.

Obviously I'm not condoning your past actions, but there is quite a difference between kicking a cat in a fit of momentary anger to launching a sustained and prolonged attack, gaining evident enjoyment and hilarity from it and filming and presenting it as entertainment for the masses.

You regretted your actions solely because of what you did to your cat, as I assume there were no consequences for you. He will only regret his actions because of the consequences for himself. Your remorse is therefore genuine. His is not.

Sadly the only thing he will probably learn from this is to not post his deviant behaviour on social media. Thankfully he (or his brother) were foolish enough to do so which will hopefully help to prevent any further suffering being caused to his cat or any other animal that might have had the misfortune to become his household pet.

 

[MJsGhost]

Time to wheel out one of my favourite quotes from a dusty old philosopher:

"Since compassion for animals is so intimately associated with goodness of character, it may be confidently asserted that whoever is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
(Arthur Schopenhauer)

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Technically it's a private prosecution but it's heard in the Magistrate's court and (IIRC) requires the same level of proof, ie beyond reasonable doubt.

There was a plan to stop these and, instead, pass details to the CPS.

There was a plan to get the CPS to prosecute both Customs (Border Force) and RSPCA cases but as the CPS has been decimated there just aren't enough qualified solicitors.
As you rightly say, their prosecutions are held in the magistrates' courts ie criminal courts.

 

[Eric the meek]

I can't remember which one it is, but there's an American first nation tribe, who never hurt an animal smaller than themselves.

I've always remembered that (apart from who they are).

 

[Badger Boy]

"I'd never trust a man who doesn't like dogs, but I'd trust a dog who doesn't like a man" - Jesus Christ

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Bloody Zoomers.