I agree. When we were kids we found a large snake in our backyard. Kids being kids we set out to beat it to death. "We" were 5 or 6 kids from 3 different families. As far as I know, none of us ended up serial killers. The kid in the story did a stupid childlike thing. That's all.
Me too. I remember when I was a kid catching lizards and sticking them inside of bug lights, tying firecrackers to a cats tail and all sorts of other cruel unthinking things that boys do. The bottom line is that kids, especially little boys are mean as hell. That kids dad did the smart thing by grabbing the kid and getting out of dodge quick.
My friend's mother answered the door, out of breath, and said she just killed a snake.
She accepted my offer to go throw it out back in the woods.
(Black snake 3 or 4 feet long)
It was the housewife in the basement with a shovel....
I disagree both because of the context and what the grandfather said. This was neither a fear response nor was it, because of being at a public zoo, a place where ordinary bored boy viciousness would be done.
This was a premeditated act, in front of witnesses, and with “callous indifference” to what anybody thought. And because of his grandfather’s comment, I suspect that this boy is a psychopath, and a dangerous one.
The vast majority of psychopaths are not generally dangerous, based on their level of self-control. They are incapable of sympathizing or empathizing with other people, but they can rationally determine that certain behaviors or actions are not acceptable, and choose to refrain from doing them.
However, a dangerous psychopath also has little or no impulse control and cannot distinguish differences or degrees in context for their actions.
If they see a woman wearing a hat they don’t like, they will snatch it from her head and destroy it on the spot, not caring what her response is, if they are by themselves or in a crowd of people staring at them, or if they are in the middle of a church service or standing in front of a policeman.
Importantly, this may or may not carry over to their actions after their impulse. They may automatically deny having done what they just did, or they may accuse someone else of having made them do it, or any number of behaviors.
In the final analysis, this boy needs to be examined, and carefully. He may be one of the few who are so aberrant that they need to be institutionalized for life, being a clear and present danger to others.
This was a snake that was someon’e PROPERTY...not a loose snake in a backyard! I do hope you are smart enough to know the difference...are you?
When he kills your pet, I'm sure you'll dismiss the incident just as easily. I know that I will.
Would you say the same thing if it were a kitten instead of a snake?
Girls 'stomp kitten, then brag about it'13-year-olds facing cruelty charges for act called 'beyond sick – it's evil'
Two girls from New Jersey are facing animal-cruelty charges after allegedly stomping on a kitten before burying it alive up to its neck.
"This is beyond sick – it's evil," Cumberland County SPCA Agent Beverly Greco told the Bridgeton News. "We have reached a new low."
The 13-year-olds from Laurel Lake, N.J., reportedly acquired two kittens Dec. 5, but were told by their father they couldn't keep the animals.
"We received information from the local animal-control officer and the school [they attended] that the girls were bragging about what they had done," Greco said. "The girls, who are stepsisters who live separately, reportedly had taken two 8-month-old kittens who had been offered for adoption by their owner."
"They took the kittens to a nearby wooded area, where one of the kittens escaped. The other one was stomped, had a red tank top tied around its neck, and was buried in the dirt with its head sticking out."
The child is an idiot as well as his guardians. It was a petting zoo. If you can’t grasp the difference between your back-yard and a public zoo at 10 you have a serious problem.
If this little psycho had killed a puppy, would you be singing the same song?
This is a deliberate property crime, not killing some loose wild animal.