Angry Birds is such a successful app that it’s going to be developed into a film. Really!
However, some kids in China are just so into Angry Birds that they couldn’t wait for the movie to be released, and so have been strapping actual sparrows to explosives and setting them off - so that they can play a real-life version of Angry Birds.
Huang Chu, a 45-year-old man who lives in Lantan county in Shaanxi province, was walking through a local park when he saw children running away from an object on the floor, reports MailOnline, ‘I realised it was not going to go off as the fuse had run out, but when I went to walk past it I saw there was a sparrow tied to the side of the firework.
‘I took a picture and then I set it free, and it flapped off under a bush.’
He then spoke to people in the park and found that there were loads of mutilated birds around. He said, ‘I spoke to an older boy who told me that the others had been playing Angry Birds, shooting the fireworks across the park and pretending to be playing the video game of the same name.’
Grim, right? The thing is, if the kids were really doing this, it wasn’t even against the law. Really. The Chinese Law on the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is still in draft proposal stage.
In fact, the whole reason Mr Chu acted was to provoke lawmakers into actually criminalising this sort of behaviour. ‘I posted images online, because people should be aware of what’s happening,’ he said. ‘Maybe it will increase pressure for animal rights laws to finally be introduced here in China.’
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.