Posted on 09/25/2013 3:34:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Is 'National Kill A Pit Bull Day' Real Or A Hoax? Flier Urging Dogs To Be Killed On Halloween Night Spreads On Internet
A flier circulating around the Internet is pulling a few tricks on dog owners by proclaiming Halloween as National Kill a Pit Bull Day. Should pit bull owners be terrified, or is National Kill a Pit Bull Day just a hoax?
National Kill A Pit Bull Day The National Kill a Pit Bull Day notice spreading around the Internet. Twitter Fortunately, we are able to report that National Kill a Pit Bull Day is a hoax, although the idea for the fake planned massacre may have been borne from a sliver of a truth (and its a fairly thin sliver).
With the help of Twitter and other social media sites, dog owners and animal advocates were outraged over the flier announcing National Kill a Pit Bull Day. The flier has gone viral, just as it did in 2012, when it was deemed a hoax.
The flier purports to be written by Terry Jordan, which happens to be the name of a city councilman in Slater, Mo., who helped pass a vicious animals ordinance in the city that drew the ire of pet owners. The ordinance originally applied only to pit bulls but was expanded after backlash.
But Jordan told the Marshall Democrat-News last year that he was not behind the National Kill a Pit Bull Day flier (the grammar of the piece helps back up his claims). The councilman said he was just as angered by the notice as animal advocates were.
"We don't know who posted it, and I don't know how to stop it," Jordan said in 2012, when the National Kill a Pit Bull rumors gained steam.
Some believed the flier was payback for Jordans ordinance.
Last year, a Tumblr warned dog owners to keep their pets safe on Halloween and said the flier was not a hoax. The blog gave out Jordans phone number and said the councilman does indeed hate our dogs.
Here is the full text of the 2012 flier, now being circulated again this year:
Warning!!
Don't plan on your four legged friends walking around with you on Halloween this year.
KEEP ALL DOGS IN A LOCKED HOUSE
October 31 (Halloween Night) is trying to become National "Kill a Pit Bull Day"
Not only is Pit Bulls part of this "Holiday". Any breed is fair game. Especially, any look alike breeds.
Terry Jordan - Yesterday
I'm here by announcing October 31 National kill a pitbull [sic] day. After you take the kids trick or treating keep your costume on round up some friends and kill as many pitbulls as you can before midnight. Baseball bats, knives, bricks and poisons (a hotdog soaked in radiator fluid works well) are all suitable tools. Their owners like brag about there [sic] high threshold for pain. So don't worry them suffering they can take it. So remember to spread the word!
OCTOBER 31, 2012 NATIONAL KILL A PITBULL NIGHT
Please feel free to scan to spread the awareness.
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People are effing sick.
It sounds like something that Juan McLame’s ‘moderates’ would put out for publication .
I don’t know about a designated holiday but I have heard of a group of bikers a couple hours ride out of Seattle who hunt for them on their bikes and have a contest for the most killed each year.
Its always something.
Probably best to keep dogs and cats be kept in the house even under the best of circumstances Halloween is a chaotic night.
S I C K
I don’t like the breed but this is stupid and criminal. I would turn them in and testify against them with no problem.
If you can’t burn a blighted neighborhood, may as well kill a dog?
chet99 has been busy!
Serial killers often begin their lives of crime by killing animals.
From the link:
Fortunately, we are able to report that National Kill a Pit Bull Day is a hoax, although the idea for the fake planned massacre may have been borne from a sliver of a truth (and its a fairly thin sliver).
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I will still be very careful with my dogs on Halloween.
I don’t own a bully, but if someone tried to kill my dog I would treat them the same as if they tried to kill a member of my family. And they might just end up in one of those abandoned mine shafts in the desert like my guns. And like my guns, never to be found again.
SH/SH/SH
lolol
upchuck has NO (as in ZER0) Halloween Trick-or-Treaters since he moved to the country some years back.
Maybe the No Trespassing signs with skull and crossbones and the big swamp with gators they have to cross that’s holding ‘em back.
By all means, have a “Kill A Pit Bull” contest everywhere a wannabe hunter lives.
1. Reserve a small, round, arena from which neither dog nor hunter can escape without the access door being opened.
2. Place hunter and Pit Bull in the arena.
3. Allow betting on the outcome.
PS Pit Bull hunting will be done as the ancient Greeks wrestled - both parties to be nude.
The winner is awarded a PETAPerson.
Loser gets two PETAPersons.
white hut must be planning a big big bar b q
I think Pit Bulls need to be placed on a 'Pit Bull Ranch' that is well cared for and securely gated, away from children!
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