SAN FRANCISCO - A 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 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 reported. They fired at least seven shots at Gaylord, according to a police report.

McKevitt, free on bail, was ordered to turn himself in Nov. 3. Porter was sentenced in March to seven months in jail after pleading no contest in the ostrich killing, the paper reported.






Although, i don't like that they killed the bird, but their bitches should have not laughed at them otherwise the bird probably would have been alive. I think it's the females fault, that this whole thing happened because they were laughing at them because they were being attacked by an orstich, which I don't know why the hell would you laugh at something like that, the guys got embarrassed by it because the whole thing was about male pride & being strong cause they are guys & they got beaten up by not a human but a large bird, but they should have NOT killed the bird, that was stupid But LOL! at the ostrich name

^ yeah, it should be more than that

You are seriously blaming the girls? These guys are sick, and should suffer the same fate as Gaylord.

Poor Gaylord

he deserves more time

I'm not defending the guys, they should suffer, I just think the girls should have not laughed & make fun of them because they were being attacked by a bird because the guys were humilated by them, because they laughed at them when they were being attacked they were not man enough to handle the bird & I think that's main reason why they killed the bird, So I think it's partially the girls fault too. They should have not laughed

LMAOLMAOLMAO. They got their asses owned by an ostrich named Gaylord.

Now they're gonna get rammed in the ass by Bubba and friends...

Karma, don't you love it?

This is why I never drink. Dumbasses.

No I don't because rape is never justified, they should just be killed imo because the world needs less sentient crap like that.

Fireman - exactly what type of reasoning is that? Of course those idiots shouldn't have laughed but that's hardly cause, reason or provocation for two people to go back and take a shotgun and shoot something 7 times. Saying that the two women caused that doesn't make any sense, they caused it themselves for trespassing and the animal was protect its territory and/or itself, they should have taken it up with those that laughed at them. By your reasoning the women caused the embarassment hence the ostrich got shot, how does it make sense to go and victimise something that was unrelated to the embarassment. They were too thick to put two and two together and tell the women it wasn't funny, the women were too thick to realise not to laugh and they were all too thick to realise they shouldn't have drunk so much and gone on to private property. By your reasoning you've said that is someone laughs at someone it causes the person laughed at to take it out on something else and places less blame on them for doing so because they were laughed at which is ridiculous. The women didn't force them or give them an ultimatum to go back and destroy that animal like they did. Yes they need to learn manners and they shouldn't have laughed but they are not responsible for those men then going off and taking out their pathetic egos on the ostrich. Unfortunately, people are stupid enough for this kind of thing to happen a lot (like the pieces of **** who butchered a stingray after Steve Irwin was killed), but it doesn't make them less responsible for their own actions, they acted out of proportion and to the wrong party. The women had an effect on them but not in the area they acted out in, if the women put the men p to killing the creature then they are to blame as well, otherwise it was then men's own idea and course of action.

If you honestly think the bird would have been alive or left alone if the women hadn't of laughed, imagine how those men and people like them would react in everyday situations when something similar happens, the amount of people/creatures they would hurt, you shouldn't have to put up with people unfairly laughing at you it's true but you don't act out on innocent parties. Male pride or pride is no excuse. It would be the same the other way round; if the women got kicked by the ostrich, the men laughed, the women went back and killed the ostrich, would the men be to blame and would the women's actions be more tolerable or less to blame because of 'Female pride' and them 'being women' (like you said about the men 'being guys')? No, the men would be to blame for laughing but not for killing or causing the ostrich to be killed, those are two separate things.

Anyway, in regards to the punishment it's another example of how the courts care very little about animal welfare and they care even less about animals who we like to fool ourselves into thinking are a part of our food chain.

Just read your initial post again - do you always refer to female companions/girlfriends/partners as 'their bitches'?

Wow thats sad. They are losers lol. is it really that serious for them to go out and kill the bird? hell if i got kicked by a ostrich i would laugh to0

Who the heck names their bird Gaylord?

Their asking for it

Give the guys like 3 years in jail at minimum, not 5 months.

LMFAO.


Poor Gaylord.

~A*D*O*R*A~ You are a person who worths a lot. I'm glad I can be in the same thread with you and I love that you are so centered and objective.