Posted on 08/08/2007 12:52:56 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
SPOKANE VALLEY -- Two 12-year-old boys are in juvenile detention accused of shooting horses in Spokane Valley. The boys were arrested on East 44th, just off Pines Tuesday afternoon.
Deputies say the boys were using a .22-caliber rifle and .22-caliber pistol.
In all three horses were shot along with a nearby house. One of those horses was rushed to Washington State University for emergency surgery.
The boys were booked on five felony counts of malicious mischief.
Emergency surgery at WSU isn’t cheap... I hope they start by paying for that.
I bet their parents were buying them the ammo to shoot birds and rodents for “fun” and turned a blind eye to them shooting stray dogs and cats as well. I’m sure they have lots of reasons that it couldn’t have been their little darlings that have been behind the shootings of livestock in the area.
Now that they have been caught shooting horses (expensive ones?) how long will it be before we get the same ol’
BS about what good kids they really are and what the heck, it’s all Bushes fault anyways.
Apart from responsibility it seems they also lacked any thought of respect for life.
Take the kids out and shoot THEM in the legs. See how they like the pain.
It happened in Vero Beach last year.
But you can return fire if you're defending your homestead from armed assault from a public highway.
I think a horse whipping would do it.
But you can return fire if you're defending your homestead from armed assault from a public highway.
Winmag... I'd love to be there with that kind of timing, but I can't sit out in my pasture with a rifle all day on the chance that sometime someone might do something wicked. Most folk have to work and such...
I have horses. If kids did that to mine they would be certainly be facing a larger penalty than a charge of ‘criminal mischief.’
The little sh!ts ought to be horsewhipped within an inch of their worthless lives.
They’re not stupid, but EVIL!
It hurts just to think that horses are mostly stoical about pain. Imagine the owner meeting the eyes of one of his steeds, then seeing the oozing wound.
I agree. But at least you'd have a certain amount of peace of mind knowing that you're prepared if something like this did happen in your presence. Attacks like this are felonies, and as much a danger as a drive-by shooting.
He hit her with a single pellet just in front of her left hind leg. The pellet penetrated almost three inches before coming to a stop near her spine.
The vet took a number of x-rays and was able to conclude that nothing vital was damaged and that it would be best to simply leave the pellet where it is rather than risk surgery to remove it. He has kept the x-rays on file as evidence if we are ever able to find out who did it and want to press charges of animal cruelty, but it has been just about a year now, so I am doubtful that we will ever catch the little creep.
Sheesh... I bought my Labrador at 3 years old from a guy who had tried him as a field trial dog. When I x-rayed his hips to check him for breeding suitability, we could see he had a pellet in him, also near his spine.
At the time I wondered if the old guy had shot him accidentally during a hunt, or whether he’d gotten into someone’s chickens. It never occurred to me that it could be just a random malicious act.
Like your dog, he didn’t have any ongoing issues with it staying there. I hope your dog doesn’t have any trouble either.
Awfully close to home. I hope neither of these boys attend my middle school next year.
Hmmm...We used to shoot (pellets) @ houseflies/fire ants....in Texas (’67-’69).
Gosh, me too. I suppose if they are, their records will be sealed and you’d never know it was them, right? If these little b*stards are shooting horses now, they’ll likely move up the food chain within a few years.
Less than a month ago, a diverse 9 year old with a BB gun shot one of my client's dogs in the eye. The dog was in a pen outside the owner's house and the diverse child crossed the street to shoot the dog in the eye. The law refused to take away the BB gun and the mother (there is no father living there)is on welfare so there is no civil compensation for the veterinary care to save the eye (which we did).
Kids under 14 should not be turned loose with a weapon unsupervised for any reason.
I wouldn’t trust them to work on my horse. I would rather have them shovel some (LOTS) of horse poop around with the horses safely away from them.
I think you are correct about the parents. I also think at 12 yrs old the parents ought to have the guns locked up or at least know when & where their kids were using them.
They need to shovel horse shirt WITH the horses in he pen!
Horses seem to have a sixth sense about morons like this.
I know my horses and mules certainly do, and they would give them a lesson they wouldn’t soon forget.
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