Can Animals Commit Crimes?
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Published 2019-07-08
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All Comments (21)
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This is gloriously stupid and I love it!
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Everybody gangsta till the rats start committing tax fraud
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The rat story is a next level shitpost so far ahead of it's time
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That man was a genius for choosing to make a name for himself by defending rats
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Fun fact: most lizards have not committed war crimes against Yugoslavia (key word: MOST)
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Judge: Do you have anything to say about this? Roof tile: Judge: Guilty
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As soon as we stopped animal trials we had some of the deadliest wars in history including WW1 and WW2, I rest my case
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0:44 "Chassenée was looking to make a name for himself" Given that we're talking about this 500 years later, it would appear that he was successful. It would also appear, interestingly, that this may never have actually happened, but then history is full of such interesting tidbits.
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minor inconvenience occurs The Church: "Wouldn't that make you... GUILTY!?"
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Prisoner: “How’d you get in here?” Pig: “Oink.” Prisoner: “Wow, I only murdered a few people.”
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"He was being annoying but kinda had a point" So like most lawyers then?
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“I murdered a man, what are you in for.” A gold fish:
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“No harm, no fowl” made me audibly laugh for the first time in probably two weeks and I’m grateful for that. Thanks
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And we thought having parrots as witnesses in court is already weird enough.
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Imagine spending 20 years to become a lawyer and your debut case was defending a random chicken, also you lost.
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The rat case is proof of how flexible the court can be Also this is funny as fuck
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The rats right before the incident: Rats, we're rats, we're the rats! We pray at night, we stalk at night, we're the rats! I'm the giant rat that makes all of the rules! Let's see what kind of trouble we get ourselves into~
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yall worrying about animals being convicted of crimes, but inanimate objects tho
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"so the rats could get their affairs in order" Congratulations, two minutes in and I already lost it.
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“It’s remarkable something like this was coming out of the church in the 13th century” Believe me, Aquinas is probably the smartest man to ever have lived. His theories and theology were so batshit crazy at the time, but a lot of what he said about the ‘natural world’ was proven by science over 700 years later
