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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Vulcan on November 28, 2001, 09:27:00 PM
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It rattled her dags, but girl sheep's no stir fry
29 November 2001
It was a good yarn, but a sheep called Girl isn't having a baa of reports of her demise.
Christchurch woke on Wednesday to hear the woolly identity from Marshland, on the northern outskirts of the city, had died at the hands of a miscreant with a match, set alight as she grazed beside peaceful McSaveneys Rd.
Even as late as on Wednesday afternoon, local police were sure the van Hout family's sheep had died from her injuries, passing on their condolences.
"Right now we are just struggling to work out what the offender's motivation was," Constable Graham Honeybone, of the Papanui police said.
"If you can have the motivation for this sort of thing."
Whatever the motivation, police knew the "cowardly act" happened just after 4am, when two men in a car saw Girl tethered beside her owner's gate.
Mr Honeybone said one of the pair, an 18-year-old male, poured petrol over the defenceless animal and set it alight. The duo fled when they were startled by a neighbour.
"The first thing I heard was a car pull up," neighbour Rod Dohrman said.
"When I went to the end of my drive I saw what looked like a torch being shone in her face, but then whoosh, up she went."
As the men fled down the road, Mr Dohrman rushed to his garage for a bucket of water. Two men were later apprehended by police and charged with animal cruelty.
Nursing a singed but otherwise unhurt Girl on Wednesday, Theu Van Hout said he had always had sheep grazing on the grass outside his "hobby farm", and that none had been attacked before.
"People do some funny things, but it would take a lot more than a match to hurt our old girl. Whoever did this is a very strange man."
SPCA Canterbury centre manager Jenny Prattley said the offender was cowardly, gutless, and he deserved to feel the full weight of the law.
The maximum penalties for animal cruelty are six months in prison, a $25,000 fine, or both. Mrs Prattley said maiming an animal as docile as a sheep warranted the harshest possible response.
"I would like to think he can be made an example of, to stop others from doing the same thing, but then it will all come down to his excuse. But to me, there can't be an excuse."
Mrs Prattley said the SPCA seldom dealt with such vicious acts, but the potential was always there when it was such a short drive from the city into the country.
People should reconsider tethering animals close to the road, she said.
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That's just sick!
Only a motherless f*** would do that.
I hope they go to jail and get buggered the whole time....
-W
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My dear Girl..
what have they done to you.. here.. lay down on my crotch.. yes..
You are gonna be alright, Girl.
Yes. Maybe if you suck harder, the pain will be more bearable.
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Animal, you're a retard.
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LOL, ain't he tho'! :)
Too bad about the sheep...you'd have to be a truly sick fediddleer to do something like that.
SOB
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Yeap, pretty cruel thing.
Even though I ate a big hamburger a few minutes ago.
I hope the cow that meat came from was put to death mercifully.
(or whatever meat they make hamburgers with anyway)
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heh... just when i begin to wonder if my malais is justified, just when i think i might be too hard of a critic of mankind....someone goes and pours gas on a sheep and lights it on fire for kicks.
or someone dismembers a 3 year old or puts some guy in a full body cast for 10yrs as a kind of torture for his political beliefs, or sells their kid into slavery...or etc etc
primary human hobby - create excruciating pain and sadness for another creature or human, rinse, repeat as necessary.
what a sick world and absurd hell of a world...where's my pipe anyway, i've had enough of this place today....
:(
ps - hope she makes it!
[ 11-29-2001: Message edited by: mrfish ]
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Pssst, Animal, you've got soot all over your tshirt....
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Animal has been known to Tip cows but he would never torch a sheep, at least not a pretty one-perhaps this was the result of a love triangle gone bad! hope your sheep gets well and I hope the perp gets "Hard" time in the special cell-Shooter ;)
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If she dies I'll just clone her.
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I stand on what I said in the other thread. Only a mentally disturbed bastard would do something like that. :mad:
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hehe where did it happen ?
cool note animal :D
its a bit O isnt it ?
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btw she doesnt look good
that steak should be finish but probably a difrent way ;)
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Animal cruelty is a bad thing. They should have stiffer sentences.
Animal (the one who posts on this message board) cruelty is a good thing, and should be made a national sport. :D