• interceder270@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We were even going to kill Johnny Depp’s dogs at one point but settled for the “hostage video”.

    Let me guess, it’s because he was rich and famous.

    • stifle867@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      I think it was more about sending a message. In a way yes because he is famous, but in the way that they wanted to leverage that as a deterrence. It wasn’t about “letting him off the hook”. It was about using him as a platform to say to the world “we do not fuck around when it comes to this”. If you’ve seen the hostage video you know what I mean 🤣

    • Quokka@quokk.au
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      1 year ago

      In Australia under a rightwing government? No, they wouldn’t have given a shit about that.

      It was because he broke biosecurity laws. Something we take seriously here after witnessing how rabbits, foxes, and canetoads fucked up the environment.