Posted on 02/08/2023 3:48:04 AM PST by blueplum
DALLAS (AP) — A 24-year-old man now linked to an unusual string of crimes that kept the Dallas Zoo on the lookout for missing animals told police that after he swiped two monkeys from their enclosure, he took them onto the city’s light rail system to make his getaway, court records show.
Davion Irvin also said he loves animals and that if he’s released from jail, he would steal more, the documents said.
Irvin, who remained jailed Tuesday on $25,000 bond, was arrested last week after asking questions at a downtown Dallas aquarium about animals there. He is charged with six counts of animal cruelty and two counts of burglary....
Meanwhile police in Louisiana announced the arrest Tuesday of a 61-year-old man in the case of 12 squirrel monkeys that were discovered missing Jan. 29 from their enclosure at Zoosiana in Broussard, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) west of Baton Rouge. .....
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That must’ve been a def leppard.
No monkeying around with them
Maybe he’s one of those people who “don’t believe in” Zoos. That’s still breaking the law and disturbing those animals. Somewhat surprising, he’s black. Liberating caged animals is not often a crime involving young black men.
“liberating” animals into an environment they are not suited for and not prepared to survive in is cruelity.
Those *animal rights* activists are doing the animals no favors, but rather as condemning them to a slow, un pleasant death.
He “liberated” the monkeys to a closet in an abandoned building. What he did was theft with the excuse he was helping the animals. It’s like calling euthanasia “health care”.
Animal rights people have a religious belief that animals are sacred and humans are profane. Any animals under the control of people are better off dead. That seems to be his vision of “liberating” them.
I think he needs to be caged.
Too bad he ‘ignored’ the 9 Banded Armadillo exhibit.
He could have gotten a mild case of leprosy, all for free.
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