Sickening: The grinning soldier holds the puppy aloft
and then throws it off a hillside
Posted on 03/04/2008 6:36:57 AM PST by yankeedame
Last updated at 13:49pm on 4th March 2008
The U.S. military are investigating a shocking video of a smiling Marine throwing a puppy off the top of a steep hillside in Iraq into a gully below.
The video gained widespread attention and condemnation after appearing on the web site YouTube, where it has been viewed over 8,000 times.
The footage shows two Marines, in combat gear and smiling, as one holds a white-and-black puppy by the scruff of its neck.
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Sickening: The grinning soldier holds the puppy aloft
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The small dog seems to be about eight weeks old and is motionless as it is held.
"Cute little puppy, huh?" says one Marine as he smiles broadly.
"Oh so cute, so cute, little puppy," says another in a child-like voice.
The Marine holding the puppy then turns and hurls the animal overhand into a desert-like gully below.
The puppy can be heard yelping in terror until it thuds to the ground at the bottom of the gully.
"That's mean," one Marine says after, in a sickening understatement.
"The video is shocking and deplorable and is contrary to the high standards we expect of every Marine," a spokesperson revealed.
Marine spokesman Major Chris Perrine believed the culprit is based in Hawaii.
"We do not tolerate this type of behaviour and will take appropriate action," he said.
The 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment of about 1,000 Hawaii Marines recently replaced a sister unit in Iraq, the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment.
Marine Corps Base Hawaii said the vast majority of Marines "conduct their duties in an honourable manner that brings great credit upon the Marine Corps and the United States."
"There have been numerous stories of Marines adopting pets and bringing them home from Iraq or helping to arrange life-saving medical care for Iraqi children," said Major Chris Perrine.
"Those are the stories that exemplify what we stand for and how most Marines behave."
I hope its a hoax as much as the next guy does, but I'm still waiting for some definitive proof either way.
To me, the fact that the dog sounds like a guy going "Yip! Yip! Yip!" as he flies through the air makes me think its a hoax. But the fact that the guy is in hiding and his family doesn't want to talk makes me worry its not.
“Ah, the crazy vet syndrom.
Our troops are not snapping under the pressure.
You can probably spread that propaganda at DU, but it won’t fly here.
What is your problem??? I am simply explaining why some times people crack under pressure. Basic psychology 101.
Some people handle situations and others can’t.
Don’t put words in my mouth.
Why do you think they have PTS rehab before soldiers go home?
Not easy seeing your best friend getting his face blown off.
Why not save the life of an innocent puppy, and let the abusing cruel inhuman moron about to harm it fend for themselves.
Personally, I think its the perfect time for an SOB POS like that to meet The Almighty. he’d sure have some ‘splainin’ to do....
Read the full text at the site that sells these fake puppies! The fur comes with variations, since they are handmade!!!
“Don’t worry that you’ll crack under pressure, men. When you stick your hand into a mess of goo that a minute before was your best friend’s face....you’ll know what to do.”
-George Patton.
No doubt about that. Even one cup of green tea comes at the price of thousands of lives and the suffering of thousands of other living creatures both man and animal. Being a vegetarian is a choice that may reduce the killing and suffering that is necessary to the maintenance of your life but it doesn't end it and nothing can.
“LOL. What an ignorant, obnoxious post.
I eat meat, btw, but don’t have some perverted knee-jerk reaction to people who are vegetarians. (rolls eyes)”
Why, aren’t you special. heh
I usually don’t either, but I find people who feel it necessary to advertise they’re vegetarian as obnoxious as you apparently find me. ;-)
There’s nothing inherently virtuous about vegetarianism, it’s simply an eccentricity.
“I know meat, fowl, and seafood well. I know them all. I know what wines go well with them. I have hunted. I have killed animals. I have watched them suffer and die. I have witnessed their pain and fear.
Evidently you have also.
I didn’t enjoy it. Did you?
Do you know how calves and lambs are treated when they are prepared for slaughter? Think about it.
I turned away from the dark side and embraced my humanity, and I decided not to continue eating animals and subjecting them, even by proxy, to fear, suffering, pain, and death.
Perhaps if you turned away from the dark side and embraced your humanity, you would cease to devour the flesh of helpless animals and cease to enjoy subjecting them to fear, pain, and death.
Of course, you can do whatever you want. If you enjoy subjecting animals to pain, torture, and death, if you enjoy catching them and witnessing their suffering, you will do that. Obviously, it’s your decision to make.”
I don’t think you’ve understood what you’ve seen, assuming you’ve been out in the wild as you say. Most animals die a brutish, nasty death one way or the other. A clean kill with a bullet or arrow beats starvation, being eaten alive, freezing to death, dying in a dominance match, a fatal disease of some kind, or the countless other ways animals die in the natural world. Most end up eaten one way or the other.
I agree about domesticated animals, in a perfect world all prey would be wild. More humane for the animals, more fun for the humans. Win/win.
“Men are born soft and supple;
dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plants are born tender and pliant;
dead, they are brittle and dry.”
Ah, this poet has quite a sense of humor. Stiff and hard, eh? ;-)
Sex and death, a winning artistic combination every time.
“You’re right, Kh; PL’s post was obnoxious. Obviously it hit a nerve with me, and I posted an obnoxious reply. (Sorry, PL.)”
No worries. I’m in a weird mood today anyhow. ;-)
I fully respect your decision to be a vegetarian. I wish the converse were true on the part of all vegetarians regarding carnivores (and hunters!).
Have a good one, and enjoy your tofu! :-)
You need to see the later posts....start after 250...
now the army wears special uniforms for aircrew and tankers it tends to be different, altho now they in the acu pattern there are also chemical suits that are plain. It could simply be the MARINE CORPS flame retardant suit,mechanic coveralls or chemical suit. but I think the story is a hoax
Totaly sick.
“That’s how psycopaths think.”
Affirmative.
Nothing at your Snopes link proves this incident to be a hoax. Did you post the right link?
Yeah, it is ludicrous logic to get bent out of shape for a dog while 35 million children continue on the conveyor belt of death...
Oh, no...let’s not worry about 35 million innocent children sucked thru a tube. Let’s not whine about that.
It is possible to be concerned about innocent children AND innocent animals.
It’s not either, or.
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