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UK Realilty Star Kills & Eats Rat, Snooki Unleashed On US TV! End Of World?

By Robert Paul Reyes

"British broadcaster ITV pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and was fined by an Australian court on Monday after a rat was killed and eaten on the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here."

Italian chef Gino D'Acampo and British actor Stuart Manning were originally charged with animal cruelty last December after an RSPCA complaint over an episode filmed in Australia that involved killing and cooking a rat.

The court was told that the rat took a minute-and-a-half to die after being stabbed with a knife which the magistrate said caused unnecessary pain to the animal." Reuters

When I read the headline "Network Fined Over Killing Of A Rat On Reality Series" I thought that Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino had killed Snooki. No such luck, Snooki has been punched in the face, but she's still in the land of the living.

One of the human rats in the British version of "I'm a Celebrity.. Get Me Out of Here" killed and ate a real rat. No viewer would give a rat's a** if a reality star was accidentally or intentionally killed during a taping of an episode, but there are plenty of animal lovers who are outraged over the killing of the rat.

To slay a rat for ratings and laughs is an obscenity, and ITV should take the abominable " I'm a Celebrity.." off the air.

ITV was fined a measly $2,600, Snooki spends more than that on makeup every week.

I'm not a theologian but isn't Snooki the Harlot of Babylon mentioned in the Book of Revelations? The end is near, I hear Snooki's laugh and the hoofbeats of the approaching Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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