# Hedgehog Used in Non-Lethal Assault **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hedgehog-used-in-non-lethal-assault/444427 "2008-04-08T04:30:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hedgehog-used-in-non-lethal-assault/444427/1 "2008-04-08T04:30:46Z")
Story [here](http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/07/newzealand.hedgehog.ap/index.html). In New Zealand. Obviously, the country needs to take a page from Vietnam’s [restrictions on hamster use](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=458807&highlight=hamster). ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hedgehog-used-in-non-lethal-assault/444427/2 "2008-04-08T08:21:18Z")
Heh, I read that on the BBC news too, police are unsure if the poor critter died as a result of being thrown against the teen or was just lying dead in the right place at the wrong time. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hedgehog-used-in-non-lethal-assault/444427/3 "2008-04-08T12:27:37Z")
Hedgy was lucky there were no Serbs around. [Serbs bugger hedgehogs.](http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2006/09/prickly_advice.html) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hedgehog-used-in-non-lethal-assault/444427/4 "2008-04-09T02:51:13Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] Hedgy was lucky there were no Serbs around. [Serbs bugger hedgehogs.](http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2006/09/prickly_advice.html) [/QUOTE] Unless it was into that sort of thing, of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hedgehog-used-in-non-lethal-assault/444427/5 "2008-04-09T17:13:19Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] Hedgy was lucky there were no Serbs around. [Serbs bugger hedgehogs.](http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2006/09/prickly_advice.html) [/QUOTE] Impossible. I have it on good authority that the hedgehog can’t be buggered at all. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hedgehog-used-in-non-lethal-assault/444427/6 "2008-04-09T17:50:45Z")
[QUOTE=JSexton] Impossible. I have it on good authority that the hedgehog can’t be buggered at all. [/QUOTE] :eek: I’m thinking about pretty flowers. Pretty, harmless, _thornless_ flowers… :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hedgehog-used-in-non-lethal-assault/444427/7 "2008-04-09T19:33:02Z")
It’s a good thing it was non-lethal (to the Human). The shame of it otherwise. I saw the tag line and had this vision of a person visiting to the old gypsy fortune teller, asking how he would die. “_And you sir…shall be beaten to death with…a HEDGEHOG!_” How very Monty Python. They’ll be using Marmosets next, mark my words!