Posted on 07/16/2002 3:21:27 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Man arrested for burning kitten on grill July 16, 2002 Posted: 4:03 PM EDT (2003 GMT)
A neighborhood friend of Sherry Scott holds the kitten they named 'Lucky,' in a recent handout photo.
LIBERTY, Missouri (AP) -- A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly burning a kitten on a barbecue grill as several other people stood around and watched in amusement.
A witness pulled the scorched, 7-week-old tabby from the hot coals, but it was severely injured and had to be put to death, police said.
"They kept saying, `Meow, meow,' and they were poking at it with a stick," said Sherry Scott, who burned her hand grabbing the kitten.
Charles C. Benoit, 24, was charged with animal abuse, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. He was jailed on $10,000 bail.
Jim Roberts, spokesman for the Clay County prosecutor's office, said he does not expect anyone else to be charged, because no witnesses could identify the others.
Scott said that on Friday night, she saw 10 or 12 people at the barbecue grill in the courtyard of the apartment complex where she lives. Scott said she asked what they were cooking, and they said it was a cat. She said the group taunted her, daring her to rescue the cat.
She said the group scattered when she threatened to call police. She said she pulled the kitten from where it had been shoved into the coals at the back of the grill. Its tail, whiskers, fur, eyes and throat were scorched.
"I called him Lucky because I thought I got him out of there just in time," she said.
Scott said she and other residents stayed up Friday night trying to nurse the kitten with an eye dropper of milk. But animal control officers decided that because of its respiratory injuries and inability to swallow food, it had to be destroyed.
"If you would have seen him, you would have cried," said Sheri Simpson, one of the residents who helped care for the kitten.
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My precious black and white Maisey now gets walks around the yard on a leash. Who knows what stupid neighbors might do? And I live in an excellent suburb.
Perp of this kitten torture should be fried in vat of hot oil until dead.
Post 55 was well said.
We identify with some poor kitty grilled on a barbie....(& should!)...
..and the sick guy will probably get solid jail time for this.
What we, as a nation, don't identify with, are cute little babies being sucked out of their Mom's womb because those are pictures too gruesome......and of course, Planned Parenthood wants to protect our sensibilities.....(and their bank account!)
It does seem (& I heard this discussed even today)...that those who mistreat or kill animals, get a stiffer sentence than someone who mistreats or kills a baby.
Some of the local radio talk shows of course are discussing this... perhaps they could get some email letting this lady know she did the right thing and is supported.
Tom Becka on 980 KMBZ has a morning show before Rush - You can email Tom at tbecka@kmbz.com
George Woods morning show Email: gwoods@susqkc.com
and Dan Roberts afternoon show, droberts@susqkc.com are both on 710 KCMO
just curious
check this out if it is still active.
Sure will. Yep, squirrels are tastey...a combo of squirrel, rabbit and grouse make a GREAT meat base for chile. I make chile or stew out of them when we don't have enough of any one kind in the freezer to make a meal.
You never heard hunters termed "sportsmen"? In PA, the game commission INSISTS on it. They thought it'd cut down on hunting accidents. It didn't, of course, and it gave the envirowackos more fuel to fight hunting. I thought everyone had heard that term.
That would have been my preferred approach. One round into the ground to get his attention and if he didn't immediately retrieve the cat from the coals, one into his closest knee.
I'm as big a meat-eater as anyone here, but I will not abide some retard abusing an animal for sport.
My impression is that Benoit's friends who were not arrested are threatening Scott in an effort to protect him. Attempting to intimidate the witness - .
They are all equally guilty scum.
Who are you trying to convince here? Several of us simply pointed out the factual behavioral link between animal torture/human torture. So why is it so important for you to convince...err...whomever it is you're trying to convince that animal torture doesn't ALWAYS lead to human torture?
Like I said before : get help.
Maybe, but also true...
I daresay no one on this thread has tortured a defenseless creature as this thug has done. We have every right to criticize his actions.
Yes you do, and I will say right here and now that I, too, think it was a terrible thing to do. Just not THAT terrible. It's just a kitten, for crying out loud. And his own, to boot.
Yeah, he's got a screw loose in my opinion, but so does everyone, in one way or another. As long as he's not hurting anybody (as in humans), I prefer to steer clear of him - but leave him alone until he has actually threatened or harmed a human or their property.
This article shows no evidence of that.
OOOH. I sit corrected. the term "sportsman" has been a special peeve for me ever since they started the thing, and the S.P.O.R.T. program back in the '70's. I took the hunters safety course while they were starting that up, and since I was already active in conservation (NOT the new kind) I KNEW what would come as soon as the wackos got hold of the term to use for their propaganda.
They got hold of it...used it as a rallying cry...I can't remember the name of the idiot envirowacko who coined "I support the right to arm bears" slogan...but he was inspired by this sportsmanship thing...the envirowackos organized, and took over all aspects of conservation and management of renewable resources...the rest is recent history.
Not sure what your stupid ass statement was supposed to mean but animals, any animal for that matter feels the same excruciating pain as you and I.
Suffering is merely the prolonged endurement of such pain. For any person to do what they did to that creature is inexcusable.
I don't give a rats ass of if it was a squirrel, skunk, opossum or whatever.
No creature on this earth should be subjected to torture, especially the excruciating pain of being deliberately burned to death......
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