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May 30th, 2008, 12:36 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080530/od_afp/nzealandcrimehedgehogoffbeat_080530025255
WELLINGTON (AFP) - A New Zealand man has been convicted for assaulting a teenager with a hedgehog after asking him if he wanted to "wear a hedgehog helmet".
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William Singalargh, 27, was fined for assault and offensive behaviour by a court in the east coast North Island city of Whakatane after a more serious charge of assault with a weapon -- the hedgehog -- was dropped.
Singalargh claimed he was not the hedgehog hurler, but judge Ian Thomas preferred the evidence of other witnesses who identified him by the bright orange trousers he was wearing.
The 15-year-old boy was returning home with two friends when he was confronted by four men on the road outside his home, the court was told.
Singalargh was holding a hedgehog and asked the boy: "Do you want to wear a hedgehog helmet?"
After the boy declined, Singhalargh threw the prickly weapon, leaving a large red welt and four quills lodged in his hip.
When the boy's mother intervened to prevent a second throw, Singalargh pulled down his trousers and exposed his buttocks.
"He admitted to having been in possession of a hedgehog," police Constable Lyndon Reid said.
"He originally claimed that the group had been playing hacky sack with it," Reid said, referring to a game in which the aim is to keep up a small ball or bean bag in the air.
It was not clear if the hedgehog had been dead at the time of the assault, but Thomas described the case as "much do about nothing in many respects".
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WELLINGTON (AFP) - A New Zealand man has been convicted for assaulting a teenager with a hedgehog after asking him if he wanted to "wear a hedgehog helmet".
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William Singalargh, 27, was fined for assault and offensive behaviour by a court in the east coast North Island city of Whakatane after a more serious charge of assault with a weapon -- the hedgehog -- was dropped.
Singalargh claimed he was not the hedgehog hurler, but judge Ian Thomas preferred the evidence of other witnesses who identified him by the bright orange trousers he was wearing.
The 15-year-old boy was returning home with two friends when he was confronted by four men on the road outside his home, the court was told.
Singalargh was holding a hedgehog and asked the boy: "Do you want to wear a hedgehog helmet?"
After the boy declined, Singhalargh threw the prickly weapon, leaving a large red welt and four quills lodged in his hip.
When the boy's mother intervened to prevent a second throw, Singalargh pulled down his trousers and exposed his buttocks.
"He admitted to having been in possession of a hedgehog," police Constable Lyndon Reid said.
"He originally claimed that the group had been playing hacky sack with it," Reid said, referring to a game in which the aim is to keep up a small ball or bean bag in the air.
It was not clear if the hedgehog had been dead at the time of the assault, but Thomas described the case as "much do about nothing in many respects".
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