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Man accused of abandoning pet fish faces animal cruelty charges
WECT Channel 6 News ^
| April 3, 2019
| Clint Bullock and Chelsea Donovan
Posted on 04/05/2019 10:21:58 AM PDT by tired&retired
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - A New Hanover County man was arrested on animal cruelty charges after he allegedly failed to provide fresh water and food to his pet fish and abandoned it after he was evicted from his home last month.
Michael Ray Hinson, 53, was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with three counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals and one count of abandonment of an animal. He was given a $4,000 unsecured bond and later released from jail.
When deputies seized the fish, it appeared to be malnourished and suffering from hole in the head disease which is caused by poor water quality and lack of food.
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; cruelty; michaelrayhinson; newhanovercounty; northcarolina; scalesofjustice
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To: tired&retired
The asylum we live in has been taken over. So what else is new?
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posted on
04/05/2019 10:48:47 AM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
To: tired&retired
Interesting given the fact that New Hanover County, as far as I can make out, has long been among the counties with the highest percentages of pregnancies ended by abortion in the State of NC.
See NC abortion data here.
JMHo
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posted on
04/05/2019 10:55:22 AM PDT
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
To: tired&retired
How about if you harm or neglect an unborn or newborn child? Now NC has gone insane. Do these people have any idea how hot the Lake of Fire is; or how long ETERNITY is?!
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posted on
04/05/2019 10:56:17 AM PDT
by
Tucker39
("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
To: cuban leaf
#18:
"Man, some places are really big on kicking you when youre down." Took the words right out of my mouth. Sheesh. Hope he can turn things around. But when you are that far down, a $4000 fine looks like climbing Mount Everest.
To: ManHunter
God’s well-deserved justice is, no doubt, coming soon for many.
To: tired&retired
Who complained? And why didn’t they check on the fish earlier and flush or feed it?
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posted on
04/05/2019 11:27:43 AM PDT
by
lastchance
(Credo.)
To: ManHunter
I would love to read the ordinance.
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posted on
04/05/2019 11:28:29 AM PDT
by
lastchance
(Credo.)
To: tired&retired
Was his pet fish named “Eric”?
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posted on
04/05/2019 11:44:47 AM PDT
by
Kriggerel
("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
To: TexasGurl24
The Democrat worships fish and bugs.
The Democrat craves baby murder.
The Democrat is evil.
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posted on
04/05/2019 11:54:18 AM PDT
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: tired&retired
Next: all those fishermen.
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posted on
04/05/2019 12:00:45 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
To: JonPreston
Always, ALWAYS, kill pet fish before you move.I prefer to give them a clockwise swirling sendoff (anti-clockwise for those south of the border)...
To: Kriggerel
“Wanda” or “Gill”, depending on the DNA.
To: tired&retired
I lost a few fish as a kid. I’ve seen a bunch deal minnows in my bait bucket after a hot day of fishing. If this had been the standard then I might still be in jail.
To: SkyDancer
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posted on
04/05/2019 12:36:20 PM PDT
by
bgill
(when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
To: asinclair
We live in NC and my wife feeds Bambi every day to avoid problems with the state.
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posted on
04/05/2019 12:42:56 PM PDT
by
DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
To: DJ Taylor
sounds like that lege needs a good dozer-filled dumping of dead fish on their front porch followed by a steady dose of yellow jacket hell-raisers
To: Rashputin
I agree. I go there often as it’s Wilmington & Wrightsville Beach.
To: tired&retired
Any idiot knows the correct way to get rid of fish is to flush’em down the can!!!!
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posted on
04/05/2019 1:21:25 PM PDT
by
ontap
To: ontap
To: tired&retired
Would it have been Ok if he had fed the fish to an abandoned cat?
Not sure about the hole in the fish’s head unless it was actually a piscine mammal like a whale or porpoise, but the article didn’t say.
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posted on
04/05/2019 1:57:23 PM PDT
by
wildbill
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