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A Tasmanian man who bludgeoned six penguins to death has had his sentence thrown out, after telling the courts that it was for art, and that they wouldn’t understand it.
Joshua Leigh Jeffrey was convicted in July of beating the penguins with a stick at Tasmania in 2016, but has since had his charges thrown out on appeal after pleading Dark Mofo.
DARK MOFO, the trendy Satanic deep-winter festival at the centre Hobart’s most recent arty rebrand, takes place on the coldest month of the year, with hundreds of shocking artistic performances gracing the once boring Southern port. So shocking and edgy is the now iconic art fair, that ‘it was for Dark Mofo’ is now considered an official defence in the the Tasmanian courts.
Initially, Jeffrey was ordered to undertake 49 hours of community service, but that charge was thrown out today on appeal, after the accused revealed that he was only clubbing the penguins to death to impress tourists from Melbourne who use Tasmania as their little edgy playground.
The initial sentence also drew outrage from community members and wildlife campaigners, who said it would not act as a deterrent, but the new revelations that it’s actually a super dark artistic installation, has quietened a lot of the greenies, who are now starting to wonder if there was any subtext they missed.
“Oh. Shit” said the magistrate.
“This was for Dark Mofo?”
“We had no idea, we thought you were just clubbing penguins because you’re fucked in the head. We didn’t know it was for art”
“Actually, it’s kind of cool now that I think about it”
