Posted on 09/13/2005 3:56:25 AM PDT by Abathar
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ind. -- Two Bartholomew County teens could be charged as adults on accusations that they killed a puppy during a burglary over the weekend, RTV6's Tanya Spencer reported Monday.
Police said the teens -- a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old -- beat a 6-month-old puppy because it wouldn't stop barking as they tried to steal two vehicles from an Elizabethtown-area barn early Saturday.
"They took ... bolt cutters and beat the animal in the head with the bolt cutters, which resulted in the canine's death," Bartholomew County sheriff's Maj. Mark Gorbett said.
Police said the burglary happened at about 2 a.m. The property's owner, Tim Isley, said he was about to go to bed when he heard his dogs barking.
Isley said he saw two people outside his barn. Someone in the Isley home called 911, and while the family waited for police to arrive, the barking stopped, he said.
"All of the sudden it was just quiet," Isley said.
The teens were arrested and sent to a juvenile detention center. They face charges of burglary and animal cruelty.
Police said the teens had cut the leash of one dog so that it would run away, but they killed the puppy because it wouldn't stop making noise.
"The bottom line is they didn't want to get caught. They killed the animal that was barking," Gorbett said.
The county prosecutor intends to ask a judge to move the case to adult court, Spencer reported.
Isley said he is having trouble explaining the puppy's death to his 6-year-old son. After the killing, the family bought a new puppy for the boy.
"I just couldn't believe somebody could do that to a little puppy," Isley said.
I guess it's a sad commentary on our society when you hear about people killing people all day and you shrug your shoulders, but when someone beats a puppy to death you want to shove a red hot poker up his a$$ while he is being drawn and quartered slowly on top of a fire ant hill.
Be happy that liberals draw the line somewhere. If they can feel for a pupply, then maybe, over time, they can evolve to having some feelings for their fellow man.
Fine by me. Add the cutting end of the bolt cutter on them even better. The owner would indeed have been killed if he'd been there.
What?!? Had the owner been murdered killing the puppy would be worst in the eyes of the courts.
yeah - your right
A burglar breaks into a house at night. As he quietly creeps across the floor he suddenly hears a voice, "Jesus is watching you!".
He stops dead still and listens, but he doesn't hear anything.
He shines his flashlight around the room and he doesn't see anyone.
He takes another step. Again he hears "You better be careful, Jesus is watching you!"
Again he stops and remains still. Nothing. He takes another step..
"Oh ho, you're in trouble now. Jesus is watching you!"
He shines his flashlight around the room again. This time in the upper corner of the room he sees a parrot on a perch. The parrot says, "I told you to be careful, Jesus is watching you!"
He goes up to the parrot and shines his light in its face.
"Who are you?", he asks.
"Fishbowl" the parrot replies.
"What fool would name their parrot fishbowl?" he asks the parrot.
"The same fool that named his killer rotteweiler Jesus" the parrot answers.
My thoughts exactly upon reading this. This country is going to hell. Go straight to hell, do not pass GO, do not collect $200. Man...
LOL
That being said, here's another.
On a more serious note, the killing of the puppy should be a reason to take the crime more seriously - if they are capable of so nonchalantly beating a dog to death, it shows they are quite capable of violence.
there are thieves who, when surprised, run away. Then there are thieves who stay and get violent when surprised.
The latter are obviously more dangerous and usually graduate to even worse acts.
If they would do this to a puppy, they could easily do this to a person.
Murderers often begin by killing small animals. I'm not talking about hunting or slaughtering an animal raised for food, I'm talking about killing an animal just for the sake of killing it.
Please save the "killing puppy stories" for after lunch. To much of a bummer for this early in the morning.
Just the way I see it, wideawake.
Execute them.
Works for me --
Carolyn
If these guys spend any time in jail, it will be for killing the puppy.
And the scariest thing about these kids is they really, REALLY enjoy setting fires and torturing animals.
I mean they live for it.
OK, and the second scariest thing is that when they figure out adults think it's bad, they don't stop doing it, they just learn to hide their emotions about it. And of course, escalate to bigger things, like people.
I think it's the same kind of thing when you think about someone beating up a person of their own size---versus a baby. Which would make you get madder? Beating up a baby or a kitten or a puppy...that is a real low life.
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