Men convicted of cruelty after shooting rat out of pipe with air compressor

Three men have been convicted of animal cruelty after they filmed themselves shooting a rat out of a pipe with an air compressor. The footage shows the men forcing the rat into the pipe and firing it out like a cannonball over the top of a nearby building. Each man has been ordered to carry out 180 hours a week of unpaid work under a community order sentence.

RSPCA

• November 21, 2017 20:27 IST

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Three men have been convicted of animal cruelty after they filmed themselves shooting a rat out of a pipe with an air compressor. The footage shows the men forcing the rat into the pipe and firing it out like a cannonball over the top of a nearby building. Each man has been ordered to carry out 180 hours a week of unpaid work under a community order sentence.