‘Callous’ Fishponds teenager threw cat off balcony in Snapchat video

A “CALLOUS” Fishponds teenager who threw a cat from a balcony in a video posted on Snapchat has been banned from keeping animals for seven years. Callum James Dean Palmer has also been told to pay £500 costs and carry out a 12 month community order, including wearing an “alcohol abstinence tag” for two months, after admitting an animal welfare offenceat Bristol Magistrates Court on Wednesday. The 11-second video clip, which was taken by one of his friends during a drinking session, showed Palmer, aged 19,on the outdoor balcony of a flat in Kingswood, where the black and white cat was sitting. He was filmed leaning down to stroke the cat (circled in red in the still pictures, above), which rolled onto its back. Palmer, of Hinton Road, then crouched down and said “I love cats” – before grabbing the animal by its tail and flinging it over the balcony and into the air. The cat could be seen rotating several times in the air, before being heard landingabout two seconds later on a shed about20ft from the balcony, which had sharp nails sticking out of the roof. The video was posted on social media by one of Palmer’s friends
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