Posted on 03/10/2011 2:36:47 PM PST by decimon
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – A U.S. teenager has been charged with a felony, and could face a two-year prison sentence if convicted, for killing her family's pet hamster, authorities said.
Monique Smith, 19, of Brooklyn was arguing with a family member in June when she reached for the hamster, choked it and threw it outside the house, police said on Wednesday.
She was arrested following an investigation after Smith's father contacted the America Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, according to the society's assistant director Joe Pentangelo.
Smith is charged with one felony count of aggravated cruelty to animals.
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Dunno. Looks like one of those dysfunctional families.
You asked: Are you going to bring up murdered hamsters on all of the abortion threads?
Well, perhaps I should. The point seems to be lost on you: this story shows that we care a lot more about hamsters than babies in this country. It might be a good idea include that on every abortion thread.
we care a lot more about hamsters than babies in this country
we care a lot more about hamsters than babies in this country
we care a lot more about hamsters than babies in this country
we care a lot more about hamsters than babies in this country
we care a lot more about hamsters than babies in this country
we care a lot more about hamsters than babies in this country
Maybe if enough of us repeat it often enough it will get through to people:
we care more about hamsters than babies.
I’m all for caring about hamsters. I just don’t get it why it’s legal to slice and dice a baby when it’s illegal to slice and dice a hamster. I’m against all slicing and dicing. Are you?
I’m against bringing up abortion on every thread.
It makes you look like an idiot and dilutes your message.
Repeating yourself makes you look like a bigger idiot.
“on every thread”
I’m against hyperbole. It makes you look like an idiot and dilutes your message.
I brought it up on this thread. Not that other thread or this other thread or any other thread and certainly not on every thread.
Because this thread was relevant.
What part of “this thread” don’t you get?
ROFL! Thankee kindly for the chuckle.
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