Last night frail 97 year old Mary Hinge was behind bars for letting a boy under the age of fourteen walk out of her pet shop with a live flea.
She stated that she never asked the boy his age as she didn't see his face because he was wearing a "hoodie". It turned out that the boy was just fourteen and a member of the "trading standards and animal protection squad" and the hoodie was actually the official uniform of said council office.
She went on to say she never saw the boy pick up the flea which turned out to be a pedigree white jumping flea which is a protected insect.
After animal protection officers were called it was discovered the flea had a damaged "feeler" and had to be put down, so the charge of cruelty was added.
This woman obviously deserves to be ducked in the Manchester ship canal and a group of "animal rights vigilantes" gathered outside the police station with ropes and clubs ready to deal with the offender.
Her sentence is likely to be ten years more than rapists and murderers because as the judge said -"at your age you should have known better".
Case continues.
