Kyle Stock, mentioned in the "If you want to be a bird..." post below, has kindly found out not only what happened to that seagull killed by Yankees player Dave Winfield but a whole LIST of animals hurt or done in by idiotic athletes. They are rounded up by ESPN. They include a castrated bull, an attacked osprey, a knifed ram, a frozen octopus, a beheaded cat and a black swan clubbed to death by a golfer. It's disgusting.
Here's the Winfield story:
"On August 4, 1983, Dave Winfield and the Yankees were playing against the Blue Jays in Toronto. Winfield had a great game, driving in two runs as the Yankees won 3-1. Unfortunately, he was arrested after the game. In the middle of the fifth, Winfield finished his warmups and tossed the ball to a batboy. The ball hit a seagull on the head, killing the bird, and Winfield was charged with cruelty to animals.
'They say he hit the gull on purpose,' said Yanks manager Billy Martin 'They wouldn't say that if they'd seen the throws he'd been making all year. It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man.' The charges were dropped the next day."
For the record, the Lowcountry had its own sporting idiots episode. Several high-school golfers playing in a tournament in 2004 began clubbing alligators in a pond on the course. Mount Pleasant player Jordan Kruse, furious at the abuse of the reptiles, stopped them. The maximum penalty for harassing an alligator, a protected species, is $500 and six months in jail. People who spot
wildlife violations can report them at 1 (800) 922-5431.
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