Posted on 03/10/2011 4:37:10 PM PST by decimon
The trouble began, Theresa Smith said, shortly after she bought a hamster for her 9-year-old son. A few months later, the hamster, Princess Stephanie, was playing in its exercise ball on the floor of their apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn, when an older son, who is 25, flew into a rage.
“He kicked it deliberately, the ball flew across the room, the hamster flew out of the ball, and it died,” Ms. Smith said. After he had calmed down, the older son felt terrible, she said.
“He was very remorseful,” Ms. Smith said. “He bought my son three more hamsters.”
This act of contrition, however, only angered Ms. Smith’s daughter Monique, Theresa Smith said. Monique picked up the biggest of the three hamsters, Sweetie, “took it out of the cage, and she slammed it on the floor,” Theresa Smith said. “It died on impact.”
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A necropsy by the animal society’s doctors indicated that Sweetie, an adult female who weighed just under four ounces, died of blunt force trauma and liver damage.
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Soulless bastards... that s**t makes me sick.
There is no reason on earth why anyone should torture or kill - just because they feel like it.
Exactly.
Who gives a rat`s ass?
For starters, those who don`t like seeing pets being killed by acts of wanton violence.
That`s who.
>> “A necropsy by the animal society’s doctors indicated that Sweetie, an adult female who weighed just under four ounces, died of blunt force trauma and liver damage.” <<
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I bet that beats being slowly squeezed to death by a snake, as most gophers die.
I don’t like these people in the story either. So why do you have a problem with the ASPCA arresting people I DO NOT LIKE?
Sad, disgusting microcosm of what is wrong with this country... 12 children (no mention of a dad in the home) leads to anger issues leads to animal abuse.
They aren’t arresting people they don’t like... they are arresting people who abuse animals. There ARE laws against animal abuse, you know.
“They aren’t arresting people they don’t like... they are arresting people who abuse animals. There ARE laws against animal abuse, you know.”
I would just prefer that 501(c)(3)’s not have their own police force. That should be a (legitimate) job for government.
You like to stalk me, don’t you.
Maybe we pick the same “abusive cops” posts.
I didn't notice that the father is not mentioned. He is in some other versions of the story. In one version it is the father who called the authorities on the girl. Each news story is a bit different.
Yes, but they have to arrest themselves afterwards.
Dang! This woman apparently breeds like a hamster. Is her home a habitrail?
Probably smells like a habitrail. ;-)
The ASPCA LEO’s carry guns and everything. Haven’t you ever seen their show on Animal Planet? Scary.
Can’t say that I have. But then, I don’t watch much TV anyway.
Exactly.
Put it in Gere!
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