Burglars kill pensioner's budgie

[Pyrax]

Burglars snapped the neck of an elderly woman's budgie in front of her after she refused to hand over money, police have said.
The 78-year-old woman was also threatened with her own walking stick, pushed into a chair and then locked in her own house by the two raiders.

The pensioner was sitting in her living room, on Whitchurch Road, Cardiff, watching television, when the burglars burst into her home.

South Wales Police said they demanded the woman give them £100, but she refused and said she had no such money in her house.

Officers said the men threatened her before searching the house and stealing £65.

But before leaving the house, police said, one of the men killed her pet budgie by snapping its neck in front of her.

As they fled the scene, they locked her inside the house.

Detective Sergeant Stuart Wales, of Cathays CID, said: "This was a despicable crime on an elderly lady who is in poor health, where we believe these men have targeted her because of her age and because she lives on her own.

"She has been very brave throughout the whole ordeal but has been badly shaken up.

"The victim is deeply upset because not only has she been the victim of a crime, she has also lost her pet budgie, her soulmate, in a brutal and disturbing manner."

The burglar who killed the bird was wearing a black beanie hat, a dark scarf across his face, a dark tracksuit and dark woollen gloves with a white square-type pattern on them.

He was possibly in his 20s and was thin with a pale complexion.

The other man was about the same age but shorter, and had a distinctive walk. He wore similar clothes and a brown anorak.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090118/tuk-burglars-kill-pensioner-s-budgie-dba1618.html man some people are cruel...

 

[Raves]

Fucking yobs.

Maybe someone should march into his house and eat his cat in front of his face.

 

[DaggerWolf]

Such an unusual story.

It proves that were stealing for the hell of it. The way people are these days, I'm surprised they didn't blend it...

 

[Wonder Happiny]

Some people are really sick in the head...

 

[CyrusTG]

That was really unnecessary. She's already 78, so whoever did it really deserve to punished.

 

[I Started A Cult]

Man, man is messed up. We better start evolving now before we mess up any more.

 

[X Dragoon]

That ain't right, you don't go around snapping necks.

 

[ArcanineLover]

That's just wrong....

I don't see how anyone could hurt an elderly lady, OR a beloved pet.

People are VERY cruel...