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Man Gets Probation in Kitten's Death (Idiot Judge Alert)
AP
| 7-24-02
| my favorite headache
Posted on 07/24/2002 2:17:30 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Man Gets Probation in Kitten's Death
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) A pet store worker who stomped a kitten to death in front of young children waiting to buy it has been sentenced to probation and ordered to undergo anger management counseling.
Timothy M. Paules Jr., 23, of Colebrookdale Township, was sentenced to two years of probation for killing the kitten on Oct. 6 while he was working at Zimmer's Pets in Gilbertsville.
Paules was convicted of cruelty to animals last month. He has also been ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and serve 100 hours of community service. Judge Joseph A. Smyth also ruled that Paules could no longer work with animals.
``I don't think incarceration is necessary,'' Smyth told Paules. ``You have a history of emotional problems. I think this is a wake-up call.''
During the trial, Paules said that he killed the cat because it bit his finger and scratched his face.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: death; idiotjudge; kitten
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To: My Favorite Headache
What would he do to the judge if he got a jail sentence?
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posted on
07/24/2002 2:20:25 PM PDT
by
stanz
To: My Favorite Headache
Maybe the judge should have also ordered the perp to pay for the counseling sessions for the poor little kids who had to witness this ugly scene. I know my kids would be upset for life if they had witness such cruelty.
To: Chi-Town Lady
Bump to that
To: My Favorite Headache
Take this genius to the zoo and throw'em in the cage with
some big hungry cats. Let the kids watch that too. Might freak'em out but they'd get some closure, see some justice and maybe mom could get them a hambuger afterwards.
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posted on
07/24/2002 2:24:24 PM PDT
by
mad puppy
To: My Favorite Headache
How about we sentence the perp to sixty days of stomping the hell out of this judge?
To: My Favorite Headache
Least he had a good reason to kill it... it attacked him. He was prolly in fear of his life and all.
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posted on
07/24/2002 2:26:24 PM PDT
by
Khepera
To: Chi-Town Lady
Your number three hits the nail on the head. That is the higher principle that was violated in this case. He should've done his business in the back room.
Of course, that would've missed the point, probably.
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posted on
07/24/2002 2:27:33 PM PDT
by
RobRoy
To: My Favorite Headache
God gave us stewardship over animals. They are here for our use -- but not our abuse. There is nothing morally wrong with killing animals for food, fur, leather, for medical reserach, or in self-defense, but killing them out of sheer anger is an offense against the dignity of life -- and to do so in such a horrific manner, and in the presence of young children, is a scandalous sin.
Killing is not in itself morally wrong; deliberate cruelty is. I don't care if it's "just a cat" -- it is alive, and capable of suffering. Sometimes we cannot avoid causing animals to suffer -- but people who cause animals (or people) needless suffering will be called to account for their hard-heartedness someday.
I certainly can't cast the first stone. While I've never done anything quite as horrible as this guy, I've done some truly heartless things in my life, things for which I'm deeply ashamed. Like me, this guy is going to have some e'splaining to do when he's standing before St. Francis and the Lord in Heaven. May God forgive him -- and me -- before then.
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posted on
07/24/2002 2:34:15 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
To: My Favorite Headache
Must have been the poverty and lack of hope that made him stomp kitty.
To: MsCynic
Makes you wonder about people who kill kitties huh?
To: KineticKitty
Makes you wonder about people who kill kitties huh?Jeffrey Dahmer started with kitties.
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To: My Favorite Headache
``I don't think incarceration is necessary,'' Smyth told Paules. ``You have a history of emotional problems. I think this is a wake-up call.'' Actually Judge Smyth, your wake-up call will come when you're sued by the relatives of all the people he "serial murders" five years from now.
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posted on
07/24/2002 2:42:24 PM PDT
by
hattend
To: Khepera
"It's commin right for us!!!!"
EBUCK
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posted on
07/24/2002 2:45:24 PM PDT
by
EBUCK
To: Black Powder
Tha man made him do it! No, no, it was TV that made him do it!! Yah, that's the ticket.
EBUCK
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posted on
07/24/2002 2:46:53 PM PDT
by
EBUCK
To: B-Chan
Amen
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posted on
07/24/2002 2:47:13 PM PDT
by
GypsyBob
To: My Favorite Headache
I fail to see all the fuss. This guy was only committing a post trimester or extremely late term abortion. Hell there are a million and a half abortions, of human babies, committed in this country every year and no one gets upset.
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posted on
07/24/2002 2:51:46 PM PDT
by
gunshy
To: My Favorite Headache
``I don't think incarceration is necessary,'' Smyth told Paules. ``You have a history of emotional problems. I think this is a wake-up call.''
Incarceration is necessary because he has emotional problems, fool! This emotional nitwit needs to learn to control his behavior and his emotions. Incarceration concentrates the mind wonderfully. The WakeUp call the judge is yearning for this undoubtedly "confused young man" would most quickly come to this miscreant were he to take up habitation in one of the state's secure institutions.
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