Horrifying cruelty at a circus... to humans

Dudess

Holy crap on a stick! The following reads like a horror story...

ROME, March 26 (RIA Novosti) - Italian police have rescued a Bulgarian family from a circus in southern Italy where they were kept as virtual slaves and forced to perform highly dangerous acts, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

The Marino circus in Naples forced a 19-year-old girl to swim under water with flesh-eating piranhas in a huge transparent tank, while her younger sister, 16, was placed in a large barrel filled with snakes, insects and tarantulas. Police said she was bitten by one of the snakes.

Their father worked as part of the circus maintenance team taking care of the animals, while their mother cooked and cleaned the camp. The family, who were illegal immigrants and worked up to 20 hours a day, had been living in a cockroach-infested truck, with no access to medical treatment.

The circus paid them only 100 euros ($157) a week instead of 480 euros, the rest of the money was given to the so called gang master a Bulgarian woman who found them the work in January.

Three circus owners have been arrested accused of holding the family in slavery, with a further three people suspected of involvement, police said.

Dennis the Stone

Yikes!

Jimbo

Unbelievable, but why didn't they just leave?
Surely life in Bulgaria culdn't be that bad

Run_to_da_hills

The same sort of thing could be going on in this country without you knowing it. TBH I hate circuses.

Sherifu

Ah, but they were happy!

supertramp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCdECNUSIc&feature=related

Circus's should be banned

Voodu Child

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The same sort of thing could be going on in this country without you knowing it.

Shush!:mad:

Sherifu

supertramp wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCdECNUSIc&feature=related

Circus's should be banned

I shouldn't have laughed so much watching that.

Rb

supertramp wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCdECNUSIc&feature=related

Circus's should be banned

Agreed.

It's absolute cruelty. Unfortunate that it happened to be a family this time but at least they're free now, unlike the many, many animals across the world that aren't.

At the end of the day, it's the consumers fault. These things wouldn't exist if people didn't go to see them.

bronte

:eek: My god, that is fairly messed up.

Dudess

jimbo78 wrote: »

Unbelievable, but why didn't they just leave?
Surely life in Bulgaria culdn't be that bad

Terrible poverty though. And I've heard there's no law and order - that crime gangs run the place. Remember that programme about Bulgarian orphans last year? That was horrible.

rb_ie wrote: »

Agreed.

It's absolute cruelty. Unfortunate that it happened to be a family this time but at least they're free now, unlike the many, many animals across the world that aren't.

At the end of the day, it's the consumers fault. These things wouldn't exist if people didn't go to see them.

Yeah I fuppin' hate circuses. I find zoos very depressing too - even though they're obviously more well meaning.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Dudess wrote: »

Holy crap on a stick! The following reads like a horror story...

story would be justified if the animals were in charge ala "Animal Farm"

mike65

I hate circuses. Quite like bread though, esp brown wholemeal toasted with butter.

Mike.

Dudess

I like pie.

Clare Bear

I hate circuses. I remember first being taken to one, must have been 4 or 5 and just thinking even at that age that it was just wrong. Thankfully (well here anyway) they seem to be a lot less popular than they were years ago.

Fanny Cradock

The Marino circus in Naples forced a 19-year-old girl to swim under water with flesh-eating piranhas in a huge transparent tank, while her younger sister, 16, was placed in a large barrel filled with snakes, insects and tarantulas.

Mercy! It sounds like something you would find on 'I'm a celebrity, get me out of here'. No Peter Andre, though. Truly they have made a mockery of the carny code.

Lockstep

That's horrible.............

TEH REAL CDP

word.

disgraceful...

Lockstep

All these AH stories depress me.

John the Ravin Gay
The guy kept in a shed
The guy with learning difficulties forced on a dog leash then killed
This.

stovelid

mike65 wrote: »

I hate circuses. Quite like bread though, esp brown wholemeal toasted with butter.

Mike.

Nazi scum.

Rb

Dudess wrote: »

Yeah I fuppin' hate circuses. I find zoos very depressing too - even though they're obviously more well meaning.

Have you been out to Fota? I fcking hate Dublin Zoo, it does have some good intentions behind it, but the conditions that the animals are kept in (in terms of actual space) are horrific and very much cruel. For some bizarre reason, the foxes/wolves have these absolutely massive enclosures, whereas the tigers have these relatively (compared to the area a free tiger uses/requires) tiny spaces to live in.

And the amount of rubbish that people just throw in the cages disgusts me, I was there recently (for some reason I completely forgot that I didn't like the place and only remembered when we got through the front gate :rolleyes:) and there were used plastic bottles that had been thrown in with some of the animals, the poor penguins were swimming around in a tiny pool chock full of rubbish.

I mean given the sheer size of the Pheonix park, surely they could expand it and give them more space.

Fota, however, was really cool when we were there and I'd love to see people ditching Dublin Zoo and using the cash to go to Fota for a day.

Dudess

Haven't been to Fota in years but yeah, it has a bit of a safari park feel to it all right.

Dudess

kickoutthejams wrote: »

The guy with learning difficulties forced on a dog leash then killed

Christ, just googled that now. I despair...

And that poor taxi driver in Blanchardstown. Man, all this crap is just upsetting.

Lockstep

Dudess wrote: »

Christ, just googled that now. I despair...

And that poor taxi driver in Blanchardstown. Man, all this crap is just upsetting.

Aye, I came across it when looking up the guy kept in the shed that you mentioned once.

rositsa

Hi, first I'm from Bulgaria and be sure that here are no "crime gangs who run the place" more than in the other countries, as Dudess said. Second, we are in the EU and we’re not some kind of aborigines, yes we have some problems but which country don’t have? This video about the orphans…yes it was terrible but, don’t think that the situation is the same in every orphanage in Bulgaria, many countries have the same problem with different institutions. I saw an article that in Jersey Island, Britain colony there is the same problem, in one ex-orphanage, between 1950 and 1980, the children were systematically maltreat and put under physical, sexual and psychical violence. And third, this action take place in ITALY not in Bulgaria - The Marino Circus in Naples.
And please, read something about my country or another before you write. Thanks!

Dudess

Sorry if I offended you rositsa. I think everyone knows the incident in question took place in Italy, but people were asking why this Bulgarian family felt the need to seek asylum. I was basing my comments on material that I had read about Bulgaria.
Indeed in Ireland, there was systematic physical and sexual abuse in several institutions for children up to the 1970s, if not the 1980s. But the stuff in those Bulgarian orphanages is happening today.

rositsa

Don't worry Dudess, you don't offend me:). As I understood from the news here, they were hostages. First the employer promised them to pay 500 euro, /not 100 euro/ per week and he don’t tell them what exactly will be the job. As you know, now there are “no borders” in Europe and people who are poor and in need go to other countries to earn more money. They were cheated…

Guy:Incognito

supertramp wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCdECNUSIc&feature=related

Circus's should be banned

Elephants should be banned. Bloody maniacs.

I blame Fianna Fail

Anomaly

Dudess wrote: »

Sorry if I offended you rositsa. I think everyone knows the incident in question took place in Italy, but people were asking why this Bulgarian family felt the need to seek asylum. I was basing my comments on material that I had read about Bulgaria.
Indeed in Ireland, there was systematic physical and sexual abuse in several institutions for children up to the 1970s, if not the 1980s. But the stuff in those Bulgarian orphanages is happening today.

Yeah but today there is not quite the same as today here.

What is next? Making the little peoples (whats left of them) in the rain forests subscribe to MTV, wear clothes and make up?

I have concluded my badly made point and shall now go beddie bye byes.

magick

Hold on.....wait wait........where is the girl and donkey show?


link to vid?

Phil01

Whats so bad about that, didn't Stevo and other guy get into a tank of piranha's in Wild Boyz!! I'm sure the snakes bites weren't actually life threatening, and 480 euro's a week seems like a big wage for just swimming with some fish anyways... And they living in the circus so a couple of cockroaches are expected!!