homicidal rage for the day
Jul. 17th, 2002 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crankylexWhat the FUCK is wrong with people?
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/16/burned.kitten.ap/index.html
July 17, 2002 Posted: 5:15 AM EDT (0915 GMT)
LIBERTY, Missouri (AP) -- A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly burning a kitten on a barbecue grill as several other people stood around and watched in amusement.
A witness pulled the scorched, 7-week-old tabby from the hot coals, but it was severely injured and had to be put to death, police said.
"They kept saying, `Meow, meow,' and they were poking at it with a stick," said Sherry Scott, who burned her hand grabbing the kitten.
Charles C. Benoit, 24, was charged with animal abuse, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. He was jailed on $10,000 bail.
Jim Roberts, spokesman for the Clay County prosecutor's office, said he does not expect anyone else to be charged, because no witnesses could identify the others.
Scott said that on Friday night, she saw 10 or 12 people at the barbecue grill in the courtyard of the apartment complex where she lives. Scott said she asked what they were cooking, and they said it was a cat. She said the group taunted her, daring her to rescue the cat.
She said the group scattered when she threatened to call police. She said she pulled the kitten from where it had been shoved into the coals at the back of the grill. Its tail, whiskers, fur, eyes and throat were scorched.
"I called him Lucky because I thought I got him out of there just in time," she said.
Scott said she and other residents stayed up Friday night trying to nurse the kitten with an eye dropper of milk. But animal control officers decided that because of its respiratory injuries and inability to swallow food, it had to be destroyed.
"If you would have seen him, you would have cried," said Sheri Simpson, one of the residents who helped care for the kitten.
I accept that there are people that do not care for animals in general.
This is okay. I don't understand, but that's not my place.
What's not okay is people torturing said animal.
I don't particularly care for teenagers. This does not mean I grill them over an open flame.
How do you hurt a baby anything like that?
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/16/burned.kitten.ap/index.html
July 17, 2002 Posted: 5:15 AM EDT (0915 GMT)
LIBERTY, Missouri (AP) -- A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly burning a kitten on a barbecue grill as several other people stood around and watched in amusement.
A witness pulled the scorched, 7-week-old tabby from the hot coals, but it was severely injured and had to be put to death, police said.
"They kept saying, `Meow, meow,' and they were poking at it with a stick," said Sherry Scott, who burned her hand grabbing the kitten.
Charles C. Benoit, 24, was charged with animal abuse, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. He was jailed on $10,000 bail.
Jim Roberts, spokesman for the Clay County prosecutor's office, said he does not expect anyone else to be charged, because no witnesses could identify the others.
Scott said that on Friday night, she saw 10 or 12 people at the barbecue grill in the courtyard of the apartment complex where she lives. Scott said she asked what they were cooking, and they said it was a cat. She said the group taunted her, daring her to rescue the cat.
She said the group scattered when she threatened to call police. She said she pulled the kitten from where it had been shoved into the coals at the back of the grill. Its tail, whiskers, fur, eyes and throat were scorched.
"I called him Lucky because I thought I got him out of there just in time," she said.
Scott said she and other residents stayed up Friday night trying to nurse the kitten with an eye dropper of milk. But animal control officers decided that because of its respiratory injuries and inability to swallow food, it had to be destroyed.
"If you would have seen him, you would have cried," said Sheri Simpson, one of the residents who helped care for the kitten.
I accept that there are people that do not care for animals in general.
This is okay. I don't understand, but that's not my place.
What's not okay is people torturing said animal.
I don't particularly care for teenagers. This does not mean I grill them over an open flame.
How do you hurt a baby anything like that?
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Date: 2002-07-17 07:48 am (UTC)It takes a special kind of sicko to do something this vile and disgusting and six to seven more special people to watch and laugh.
Someone needs to put THEM on a fucking grill and light it.
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Date: 2002-07-17 08:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-07-17 10:18 am (UTC)::cuddles LB, LG, Damien, Vivian, and Monty::
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Date: 2002-07-17 02:52 pm (UTC)And then I thought about what I would do if someone tried to harm one of them.
Hey, prison's air-conditioned, right?
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Date: 2002-07-17 02:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-07-17 02:49 pm (UTC)That was the consensus at work today, after I bummed everyone out by making them read the article.
I'm not a violent person but it's stuff like this that makes me want to hurt people.
I *am* a violent person, and I volunteer my services to hold the motherfucker down. After I have my fun, of course.
This reminds me of the massacre at the cat shelter in the Midwest a few years ago. A couple of teenage boys thought it would be fun to break into a shelter with a baseball bat and beat the cats to death. They killed around forty or so, as I recall. The ones that survived were so emotionally traumatized that they hid any time anyone came into the shelter.
The father of one of the boys couldn't understand why everyone was upset, because "they were just cats".
There is a solution for people like that -- RETROACTIVE ABORTION.
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Date: 2002-07-17 08:13 pm (UTC)