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An overweight man has been charged with animal abuse in southern Spain after a young donkey died three days after he sat on it at an outdoor Nativity scene.
The five-month-old donkey named Platero was on display along with other animals in the centre of the town of Lucena in Spain's Andalucia region, as part of the town's annual Christmas celebrations.
But on December 10, a man weighing nearly 150 kilograms climbed into the donkey's pen and sat on the animal's back to have his picture taken, two animal rights groups, Adebo and Circulo Animalista de Podemos Lucena, said in a statement.
A photo widely circulating on social media showed the portly man, who wore a blue shirt and green pants, grinning as he posed on the donkey with one hand on his hip and the other hanging on to the wooden fence that was meant to keep him out.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-18/donkey-dies-after-spanish-nativity-scene/5976376
underpants
(182,834 posts)Nativity scenes depicting the birth of Jesus can be found across towns and cities in Spain in the lead-up to Christmas, and often include live animals such as sheep and donkeys.
butterfly77
(17,609 posts)with Burl Ives the actor and as I watch him sitting on the horse I wondered about how that poor horses back was able to take all of that weight.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)What the hell was he thinking?
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)he looks SMH!!!
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Maybe the fat guy in Spain should sit on him, instead.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)The poor donkey shouldn't have been bearing ANY weight for another couple of years, at the least.
bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)I hope they throw the book at this moron.