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RE: The Bengals Assist Vick.
They don't want him. He couldn't even run away from some overweight square badges and didn't throw the head far enough. Live ducks in a hotel lobby....remind me not to stay there.
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Too busy with fishing to spend much time here.
Well, imo, in contrast to the Vick case, I think that it may be wrong tocharge this guywith "cruelty to animals", depending on what happened to the duck prior to its de-capitation. I do not think it is "cruel" to kill an animal as quickly as possible. I think it's "cruel" to torture one.
So, if he had maliciously kicked the duck and maimed it, imo, that would be different than grabbing it and instantly snapping it's head off. Now this is just the way I see it in a moral light and probably does not coincide with the law in MN.
Either way he should be charged with destruction of property, along with whatever other charges are pertinent.
The thing I have to question myself is although restitution should be paid to the hotelfor the duck, should it only be for the value to replace the duck?? What if manyof the employees considered it a pet?? I know that if the perp did that to someone's dog(killed it efficiently), I would think thatalthough animal cruelty would not be part of it neccesarily, restituiton should be made that would exceed the "fair market value" of the dog itself. Punitive damages I guess.
Sorry for the long post...a little bored this morning as the apple trucks are moving slow
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Looney tunes deductive reasoning:
--Me smell Mohican burning
--Me last Mohican
--Must be me!!!
--EEEOOOWWW!!!!!
By the time this reaches court this mans physician will report slower than normal brain function caused by his parental neglect in making sure the toys he played with as in infant were not lead paint free.
The case will be dismissed.
It never ceases to amaze me that, in a country where a woman can have her unborn childkilled in some very disgusting and inhumane ways for a simple fee and nobody blinks, someone killing a dog or a duck makes the national news.
Chad
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Ecclesiasties 10:2
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
It never ceases to amaze me that, in a country where a woman can have her unborn childkilled in some very disgusting and inhumane ways for a simple fee and nobody blinks, someone killing a dog or a duck makes the national news.
Chad
The killing of an unborn child is perfectly legal in America today, and has been since 1972 . Yet on the other hand the improperkilling of someone Else's duckis strictly regulated in a state by state manor.
The killing of an unborn child is perfectly legal in America today, and has been since 1972 .
Wrong. It depends on the situation--if you pay a "doctor" to kill the unborn child, it's legal. If someone assaults the woman and causes the unborn child to die, the assailant can be charged with murder.
Still a sad situation. A woman can kill her unborn child because it's her's. The same woman can go to prison if she kills a dog or duck or other animalshe owns, even if she were to use one of the same techniques as can be used to kill her child. Even a vet would be subject to criminal charges if he were to kill an animal using abortion techniques.A lot of the same people that would persecute said woman for killing an animal will praise her and support her "right" to kill her child. Sad, and sick.
Chad
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Ecclesiasties 10:2
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
The same woman can go to prison if she kills a dog or duck or other animalshe owns, even if she were to use one of the same techniques as can be used to kill her child.
Even a vet would be subject to criminal charges if he were to kill an animal using abortion techniques.
Neither of those statements are true.
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Obviously, many people "blink". You do, don't you??
Still, the fact that abortion is currently legal, makes the practice less than newsworthy to most media. Just like most media would not report that LBR drove under the speed limit today.
I'm not saying how I feel about abortion, just that you can't expect abortions to make the news when thay are legal. But, abortion or not, doesn't make animal cruelty cases (not that this was one, imo) any less egregious or newsworthy because of their legal status. Perhaps the country is"out of whack", but we knew that from many different issues didn't we???
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Looney tunes deductive reasoning:
--Me smell Mohican burning
--Me last Mohican
--Must be me!!!
--EEEOOOWWW!!!!!
Bruce I notice you provided no facts--easy to understand, because you can't. So much for your credibility.
If a woman, or a vet,were caught jamming scissors into the back of an animals head to kill it, or soaking it in a solution whichchemically burned it to death, or pulling it apart limb by limb with forcepts or a vacumn, they most certainly could go to jail for animal cruelty. Those are techniques that have been/are used for abortion.
HBH, the fact that someone faces prison time for cruelty to animals, while at the same time it's fine and dandy for a woman to pay a "doctor" to kill her unborn child in ways just as cruel or moreso, was my point. It's plain pitiful that animal life holds more value to some than human life.
Chad
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Ecclesiasties 10:2
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
The Bengals Assist Vick.
