Police are coming under fire for killing an anteater they captured by caging it outdoors in freezing temperatures, the intellectual strain of phoning the zoo which reported it missing apparently having proven too much for them.
Chiba police responding to a report of an “animal like a civet” captured a 2-year-old male lesser anteater (or southern tamandua, a species native to tropical South America) on the 24th of December, the animal having escaped from a Chiba prefecture zoo in November.
Making no attempt to give the creature food or water, they left it outdoors in a cage, putting a blanket over it at night. It was dead the following morning, having froze to death in weather which reached 0°C that night.
Police say that “As a rule we keep animals outside. We’d like to make sure we have appropriate procedures in place.”
The zoo, which had kept the animals indoors for winter, managed to lose two of the creatures in November, and reported them missing to police. Police declined to follow up on the report.
The police soon came under fire for their treatment of the creature:
“Isn’t this dereliction of duty?”
“It would have lived if they’d just put it indoors! Arrest them!”
“How’d they know how to keep an anteater!”
“Even if they didn’t, if they bothered to follow up on the missing anteater report they’d have saved it!”
“The people who lost it are at fault here.”
“Even if they are, it doesn’t excuse police not doing their job.”
“The ones who managed to lose it have no right to complain.”
“Well they are both at fault.”
“Leaving aside the zoo’s ability to lose it, the cops are total scum for doing nothing about a lost animal, it is not like they don’t get missing pet reports.”
“Our taxes at work again…”
“Our police can’t be expected to care for anteaters.”
“Our police are clearly in need of more anteater specialists.”
“Any moron could be expected to call a zoo.”
“Leaving a small animal out in the depths of winter. Unbelievable.”
“They kill people, and leave animals to freeze to death. What can you say.”
“It’s the end of the year, they were busy. It can’t be helped.”
“I screwed up because I was busy – try using that in the private sector.”
“They have behaved outrageously… the animal was obviously out of place and yet they did absolutely nothing for it and made no inquiries at all. This is why people have such a low opinion of the Chiba PD.”
“They found an animal this unusual, yet they made no inquiries, didn’t ask any zoos or vets, couldn’t even Google how to keep it, and just left it outside. Even a child would know to find out what it eats, whether it bites or is poisonous or whatever.”
“What do you expect, these people are basically idiots and cannot manage anything like that.”
“They probably just wanted to make an example out of it. Don’t blame them.”
“Poor thing. How cold it must have been.”
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It's anteater's fault for not confessing to the crime sooner.
If they had been interrogated, they would have had katsudon.
The anteater probably had the misfortune to had been sight by a schoolgirl.
If a schoolgirl had found the anteater before the police, it could have been saved.
I bet the poor animal dared to look at children somewhere on the way. That's a death-sentence in that POS country.
“As a rule we keep animals outside. We’d like to make sure we have appropriate procedures in place.”
That's what you call being brainless
Fuck Japanese police. They need to get their heads out of their asses and help for a change. The most useles and shitty and ignorant police force in the world.
(Btw if you couldnt tell, anteaters are my favroite animal)
Nein! Nein! Nein!
its, "They need to stop wearing their asses as hats."
At this level of stupidity and lack of initiative, the cops from "demolition man" look competent.
They make the keystone cops in a 1930s Warner Brother's cartoon look competent.
Oh snap! This made my day.
And a cold snap ended theirs.
Poor Anteater. Rest in peace ;(
Looks like they're living up to standards of the US Police.
I assume the Japanese version of PETA is on the case. No doubt? Wait a minute...is there a Japanese version of PETA?
Yes, but they protect lolis instead of small animals.
Those anteaters must be males.
If they are females, they won't be treated like crap since Japanese Police treats females as a more important gender.
are you mentally ill
You must be new here.
No, jap police treat jap police as a more important gender.
If it was a teacher that anteater would have gotten off free of all charges and avoided the death penalty.
The anteater stuck his tongue out to a schoolgirl.
Had it been female that anteater will need psychological consoling growing up...
No, those must have been a male and a female. The female reported the male for sexual assault, after he lost his job, and couldn't pay the bills anymore.
Masazumi Honda is sad.
So do I btw after seeing how cute those beasts can be.
A lesser anteater, huh ?
Before reading the article I thought it was a Greater Anteater of Doom and the police killed it to save mankind.
Oh well...
Wouldn't it be funny if the Japanese police were the first to find an alien visiting earth and because it looked different and they couldn't understand it, locked it outside to freeze to death.
If it's not a little girl alien then it deserves death in Japan.Those people wont tolerate anything less.
Intergalactic war!!!
No space aliens please!
Those filthy Koreans are bad enough.
Japanese police is to stupid for the most simple things. Maybe the zoo should have bribed them into proper action.
Cage in the back with a blanket over it? Sounds like the zoo on Okinawa lol.
“The people who lost it are at fault here.”
So what? The cops wear those blues with badges to fuck around with helpless people and act like government sanctioned Yakuza?
The zoo filed a report with the cops. Nevermind how they lost it, because the cops are paid by taxpayer money to do their fucking job.
Agree. The anteater may escape by the mistake of Zookeeper, but the Zoo did file a report. The brainless police saw the animal and didn't even bother to call the Zoo, checking report of animal missing or at least take care it properly.
Just let the animal freezing outside in cool night, what a heartless stupid people.
Law is made to be bent when situation call for it. Stop blindly following the rule without using the thing inside your head called a brain.
Apparently the tsunami didn't kill enough human garbage, it had to settle for Fukushima.
You're all wrong! the anteater was at fault for escaping in the first place.
- Law being bent except when it comes to cherrypicking articles when they don't pay you protection money.
- Japan
Pick one.
Also, MALE anteater. Poor guy didn't stand a chance in Japan's streets.
I bet if the zoo had been paying the traditional bribes and kickbacks to the cops, the anteater would have been just fine.
The Japanese police are so corrupt it would be hilarious except that things like this keep happening.
Yeah that's like saying the person who forgot to turn the gas off in the house is at fault for the house burning down if fire fighters don't show up. lol
I dont want to debate on who has the most blame here. Leave that shit for lawsuits.
The point is that the zoo filed a report, and being police officers, they have the responsibility and obligation to follow through. If someone within the zoo administration fucked things up, yes, they should be reprimanded, but those animals needed to be saved as well.
The saddest of this is that noone will draw any consequences from it.
This, the guys who putted the poor thing outside should be putted naked in cage and frozen to death. I would be so good dictator. Eye for an eye.
Any government or law-related aspect of Japan sure seems to be pretty fucking awful.
Well, the incompetence of Japanese law enforcement officials is known world wide..
The police should pay the zoo what ever the replacement cost of this animal is.
The money comes strait out of the pay of those involved including the chief.
I'm a little taken aback that "common sense" doesn't seem to be required for employment in law enforcement. >_>
Not only is it not a requirement, japanese cops are taught to IGNORE common sense.
Why is there no better security in place at those zoos anyway.. I keep hearing about animals escaping and all, ffs fix 'em holes in the walls already!
Trashcan police.
Like the police would know what to do with an anteater. If the article didn't identify it as an anteater, i wouldn't know what in the fuck it was.
Which brings me to another question: If you knew what it was and wanted to feed it, where would you get a bunch of ants in December? Seriously. Ants are not exactly a staple of convenience store fare. And they don't make ant hills in the winter, right? So where would you get a bunch of ants to feed the anteater?
At the pet store or at the zoo.