Meantime in Minnesota:

Wow okay, let’s go looking for context to add.

First of all, Glen Taylor doesn’t even own the Timberwolves. He sold the team recently to Alex Rodriguez and a billionaire named Marc Lore, so this would be like Sixers fans protesting Harold Katz in 1997.

Second, the mass killing was explained this way by NBC Chicago:

Direct Action Everywhere issued a press release on the matter, criticizing the method used to kill chickens at a Taylor-owned Rembrandt Enterprises facility in Iowa amid an avian influenza outbreak that has been sweeping the country.

The local Storm Lake Times Pilot reported that more than 5.3 million chickens were killed there after avian flu struck the facility. The U.S. Department of Agriculture lists the Buena Vista County flock as the largest infected with the flu in the country so far this year.

Obviously this woman was looking for eyeballs, and got them, so mission accomplished, even if the mission was slightly off (Taylor having sold the team, etc). We wrote about it. It went viral on Twitter. She got the job done. I Googled “ventilation shutdown” and read a story about it this morning. Seems pretty brutal. They cut off air flow and turn up the heat. Seems like a shitty way to operate, but there are rhetorical questions to ask about “humane killing” anyway, which seems like an oxymoron.


Anyway, on a local note, who do you think would be the first to glue their wrist to the Wells Fargo Center court? Alan Horwitz, the Sixth Man? M Night Shymalan? Urologist Richard Harkaway? Allen Iverson? We could probably do an entire spoof article and pair it with a Twitter poll.