Posted on 07/27/2015 9:57:23 AM PDT by McGruff
A Florida landscaper was sentenced to a year in jail on Friday after he intentionally ran over a family of ducks with a lawn mower in May, reports CBS affiliate WTSP.
Jason Falbo, 24, pleaded guilty to nine counts of animal cruelty. Authorities say he mowed down 11 ducklings and their mother May 2 at the home of a family caring for them in Wellington. Police say nine ducklings died. The mother and two ducklings survived.
I love roast duck.
I guess this is a pretty insignificant crime in the grand scheme of things...but what kind of a sick bastard would a thing like that?
Purposefully harming helpless animals is the hallmark of a murderer-in-training.
This is not funny.
Run him over with a lawn mower.
‘I guess this is a pretty insignificant crime in the grand scheme of things...but what kind of a sick bastard would a thing like that?”
One already on probation for domestic strangulation...
“Falbo also pleaded guilty to a domestic strangulation case from earlier in the year, the station reported. He also received two years of probation.”
I second that.
In the face of a determined human attack, almost all animals are effectively "helpless". When I decide that a particular groundhog (for example) has come to the end of its run on this Earth, there's very little it can do to change matters.
Perhaps better to say that "purposefully harming harmless animals etc."
Well who hasn’t run a lawnmower over a family of ducks?
These ducks breed like roaches down here and they crap all over everything. They need to enforce the law against feeding them.
I’m not saying he should have done what he did, but the punishment is way over the top.
Accidents happen...but this looks like deliberate cruelty.
Gonna be kinda hard to roast ‘em after they were chopped up in lawnmower blades, doncha think.....
What kind of sick bastard would do something like this?
I wonder what his immigration status is?
And when he’ll run over HUMANS?
A sociopath. That’s why they prosecute stuff like this because next thing you know he’s doing it to people. Almost all serial killers start off on animals. I use to know a guy just like this when I was in Boy Scouts in the 1970s, he would catch a frog or Salamander and put them on a log and slowly cut off their fingers and arms then put them on a frying pan and laugh as the thing freaked out and got cooked alive. We were about I guess 11 or 12, but I remember that clear as day this kid was absolutely fascinated by torture and death. Robert French was his name if anyone knows a serial killer by that name, me and my brother have been wondering for years if he ever turned out to be a serial killer. He even use to set up traps at summer camp to try to catch a squirrel so he could do the same thing to them and we would kick apart the traps.
I hope you've never sprayed for ants or roaches and never swatted a fly or a mosquito.
You’re not serious are you?
The bloody incident happened when Boyd Jentzsch and his son, Kai, put out food for a family of Muscovy ducks that lived outside their home in Wellington, a village in Palm Beach County, Florida.
As they watched them feed, police claim landscaper Jason Falbo accelerated his lawnmower nearby and swerved over them, sending a bloody shower of feathers and bones into the air.
Of the mother duck and 11 ducklings, nine of the ducklings lost their lives.
According to Kai’s mother Laura Gontchar, feeding the ducks was one of the seven-year-old’s favourite pastimes.
The family watched the events unfold and ran to confront 24-year-old Falbo of Royal Palm Beach.
“We were horrified. I couldn’t believe it was happening. It was totally disgusting.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/gardener-kills-9-ducklings-bloody-5702747
**Gonna be kinda hard to roast ‘em after they were chopped up in lawnmower blades, doncha think.....**
A good duck fricassee would hit the spot.
Authorities say he mowed down 11 ducklings and their mother May 2 at the home of a family caring for them in Wellington.
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Caring for them means they were feeding them. It’s like feeding rats, and against the law in most places.
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