Posted on 04/04/2019 3:01:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - A New Hanover County man was arrested on animal cruelty charges after he allegedly failed to provide fresh water and food to his pet fish and abandoned it after he was evicted from his home last month.
Michael Ray Hinson, 53, was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with three counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals and one count of abandonment of an animal. He was given a $4,000 unsecured bond and later released from jail.
Lt. Jerry Brewer, spokesperson for the New Hanover County Sheriffs Office, said Hinson was evicted from his home on Two Chopt Road on Friday, March 22. Deputies with the agencys civil unit went to the home the following Monday and noticed that Hinson left behind an Oscar fish that was in poor health and swimming in a dirty tank.
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My son went to college many moons ago and dumped his poor old Earnie the goldfish in a local pond. He provided for him. LOL It beat the toilet for a new home.
Good points. Maybe just get a cat to take care of unwanted seafood.
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I guess theyve never been to an Asian live-fish market.
OMG, what will they do to me. I just had delivered 300 2-3 inch goldfish for bait to catch catfish that will be killed, skinned and eaten.
If it was a full grown oscar, I'd pay good money to watch him try that!
He could have fed a homeless cat...
Piscine species are not generally thought to be conscious, and it is hard to project the concept of suffering to a fish. The guy is a thoughtless and uncaring worm, but this is hardly criminal
An officer wrote this ticket. Against someone evicted and flat broke. Classy
Makes me proud.
Lifelong member of the PETA Society here - People Eating Tasty Animals.....
Next, killing flies is a crime.
I know there are many here who are animal rightists who believe this is a crime.
I do not.
Me neither..
Salmon?!?!
Think about clams on the half-shell....theyre still alive!
I only eat cooked stuff.. But that could be animal cruelty!
Youre likely a down and out lonely drunk or something.
I used to own Pirhana’s. Guess what I fed them?
This is insane and an abuse of power.
I am in New Hanover county. The last elections were depressingly bad for conservatives. The county commission went dim for the first time in quite a while. This seems more like he is receiving some payback for something undisclosed in the report.
Lol! Slow roasted over a spit!
Well since you have mentioned it - exactly why was he evicted?
Caught on the scales of justice.
Animal worshipers.
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