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Ostrich killer gets jail
06/10/2007 22:26 - (SA)
San Francisco - A US man was sentenced
to five months in jail after he and a friend, acting on wounded
pride, gunned down an ostrich that had kicked them as their
female companions laughed, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
"This whole thing is about male pride," prosecutor Steve
Wagstaffe said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The powerful flightless bird, named Gaylord, kicked Timothy
McKevitt, 19, and Jonathon Porter, 21, last October when they
trespassed on an ostrich ranch south of San Francisco after a
night of drinking, the paper cited attorneys as saying.
As the startled bird attacked, the women began to laugh,
prosecutors said. McKevitt was kicked in the ribs and knocked
over, while Porter suffered scrapes and bruises.
The two men returned with a rifle and shotgun seeking
revenge, the Chronicle said. They fired at least seven shots at
Gaylord, according to a police report.
McKevitt, free on bail, was ordered to turn himself in on
November 3. Porter was sentenced in March to seven months in jail
after pleading no contest in the ostrich killing, the paper
reported.
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