sticks, stones, and pigs

remember in Kindergarden when the taught us this:

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

Apparently, that never made it's way to New Zealand. Recently a 22 year old man was arrested and charged with insulting a police officer by using offensive language when called the officer a pig. The officer was so bothered by the comment, he placed him in handcuffs and charged the man. Community Magistrate Robyn Paterson at Tauranga District Court ordered The man to spend an entire day with pigs on a pig farm and report back with an essay that could clarify that pigs and police officers have absolutely nothing in common. Even after his day on the farm and hours of apparent research He maintained the word pig could be found in the Oxford dictionary and was often used to describe police--good for him.
Surely this is evidence to why the Land from 'down under' has never had presence in any world domination. Remember when the world thought it be would fun to go at it for a few years and hack away at eachother? They had so much fun the first time, they did it again 20 years later. But New Zealand and Australlia are nowhere to be found in any historical recording--they probably backed out at the first insult...also, it's not as though it appears that einstein was born there. They found it neccessary for the man to spend the entire day with pigs before he could differentiate them from cops--i think most of us would only need an hour or so. I think the Japs would have had them surrender pretty quickly...on a happier note, i'm glad he didn't call the officer a butthole.