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Teens in animal cruelty probe over use of frogs in foosball
Videos of the incident show the teens unboxing the live frogs and playing foosball with a frog on the table.PHOTO: THE NEW PAPER
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A group of teens are being investigated after they allegedly played foosball using live frogs. A video of the incident, which surfaced online over the weekend, shows the unidentified teens unboxing about a dozen live frogs in a Burberry shoebox, with the words "Merry Christmas" splashed across the clip. It then cuts to a scene of the teens playing at.
Police are now investigating the incident, according to The Straits Times.
The video was originally uploaded onto the young man s TikTok account but appears to have since been taken down, the paper reported.
Wildlife Reserves Singapore, which manages most of the zoos in the country, told The Straits Times that it had filed a police report on Thursday.
In an Instagram post on Friday, the body slammed the young man s stunt as a reckless and mindless act, adding that it was socially irresponsible, extremely dangerous and simply disrespectful to wildlife and animals .
It urged others not to attempt to copy the young man, stressing that it could be fatal.
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A video screenshot showing the youth inside the white rhinoceros enclosure at the Singapore Zoo on Thursday.PHOTO: @RALPHWEE/TIKTOK
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