Man Accused Of Tossing Son's Puppy Off 5th Floor Balcony

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Man Accused Of Tossing Son's Puppy Off 5th Floor Balcony

POSTED: 6:58 am EDT August 2, 2005

MIRAMAR, Fla. -- A man was arrested on charges of killing his son's 2-month-old black Labrador puppy by throwing it five stories to the ground after it urinated and defecated inside their apartment.

Josper Sanon, 49, took the dog and flung it 25 feet through the air off their fifth-floor balcony, the arrest warrant said.

A police officer found Sanon's 16-year-old son Steve screaming and crying in the parking lot of their apartment.

More at: http://www.wftv.com/news/4797848/detail.html
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I'm not a violent man by nature, but if I were to stand face to face with this person I'd send him straight to hell without a moment's hesitation. He simply deserves to die a painful death.

[jilln]

1. I hope that's a felony in Florida!

[Hav]

2. wow

There are some really strange and scary people living in this world.
I mean, Labrador puppies are even so cute.

[H5N1]

13. True, Lab pups are cute as can be.

If he hadn't of tossed that pup twenty five feet
he could have claimed the dog fell straight down off the
window ledge. He definitely over aced this one.

[FreedomAngel82]

33. It's horrible

They are cute dogs and totally harmless I think. My cousin when I was younger had one of those dogs and the dog was so friendly with us and my grandparents. My grandparents kept the dog one time and I never heard them complain and they really liked the dog.

[jobycom]

3. Aside from cruelty charges, he should face Child Protective investigations

Next time it could be his son. The man has serious anger issues.

Killing him would be a bit extreme, though.

[Maru Kitteh]

28. I wouldn't mind it if the man "fell" from 5 stories

wouldn't hurt my feelings at all.

Poor dog.
Poor kid.

This is exactly the kind of asshat the world does better without.

[ernstbass]

29. My thoughts exactly

Jail is too good for this bastard

[jobycom]

35. I'm sure that would help the 16 year old son

Dead dog. Dead dad.

Sorry, I oppose the death penalty for murderers, I'll oppose it for jackass fathers. Way too much bloodlust in this country.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

51. The dog was innocent. The man is a heartless sonofabitch.

Would you settle for me beating him with a steel bat until every bone in his body is broken, but leave him alive? I'd enjoy that concept, too. You're right-- that way he MIGHT learn a lesson.....

[Snotcicles]

34. I wonder if that boy will every be able to get that image out of his head

That bastard should rotten in hell.

[H5N1]

4. I'd be with you on that

without a moment's hesitation

[jojo54]

5. Mental and emotional therapy now!

Otherwise, it'll be the son next time.

[Caoimhe]

6. I bet

the guy is a Republican. That is beyond anger management. I'm surprised the poor boy ever survived his toddler years. What a monster that dad is. I hope his son never forgives him. That poor puppy.

[leveymg]

7. Did you really have to share that bit of news with us?

Does it make us more informed, stronger, better equipped to face the world? No. No. No.

It's just upsetting. What WERE you thinking, No. 6? :eyes:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. Welcome to the REAL world.

Sorry to intrude on your happy happy joy joy day. Perhaps you should just go back to bed-- or crawl under it?

[leveymg]

15. Yes, there are sick people in the world. Thanks for the reminder.

[dogday]

12. Maybe he was trying to show the actions

of a person who is one among many that abuse animals on a daily basis... It is a shame but this is one of many stories that tell us how people are behaving in this country. We need to know the mindset of Americans, good and bad.

[youngdem]

17. Why did you read it? Why did you reply? You know you can

pick what you want to read; it is called a "choice".

[leveymg]

24. The title said it all. There was no avoiding it on the DU board.

I felt U had to let "No. 6" know that it was sickening and unnecessary to post that.

It's called censure, not censorship. I didn't alert the mod, but thought about it.

[livinginphotographs]

32. Animal abuse is important news

Regardless of your desire to read nothing that isn't warm and fuzzy.

The more stories of animal abuse that can be brought to the public's attention, the more valuable discussions can be had about how our society treats animals.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

40. This is also child abuse

In my opinion.

It makes me wonder what kind of a life his son has been enduring. :cry:

[livinginphotographs]

42. That's exactly the connection that should be made.

People who are violent towards animals are regularly violent towards other humans.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

47. I've read that the subconscious message being sent when an abusive

parent hurts their child's animal is that the parent has power of life or death. The family often wonders if they'll be next, it's a part of the cycle of emotional violence and control.

Often this is a precursor to actual violence against the family.

[friesianrider]

45. If he'll do it to a puppy, he'd damn sure do it to a kid.

This is EXACTLY the reason why we need to take animal abuse more seriously. Ultimately it comes down to dominance over some being which cannot fight back.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

50. That can be true in many cases.

Even if it doesn't escalate to physical violence (which it often does) against the family, it's still a sign of an unhealthy mental environment that the child is living in.

[youngdem]

56. You are kidding? Right?

You thought about alerting the mod? To what? animal abuse, and a child crying? It is a big, bad, and very scary world out there.

[SemperEadem]

25. You also didn't have to click on the link and read it, either

you wandered into this thread of your own volition. No one dragged you in. Take responsibility for what you did to yourself. If you're grown, stop acting like an 8 yr old who needs parental supervision.

[Mutley]

41. Sure. Lets just ignore the problem and maybe it will go away

all by itself. :eyes: yourself.

[proud patriot]

8. This story hits home

Our adopted dog (Buddy chocolate lab/mastiff mix)was
rescued by the ASPCA when he was 2 months old
from a guy who was seen throwing Buddy into the
back of a truck .

[pointblank]

10. WOW

I would have no reservations about trhowing this guy off of a balcony and then going down and shitting and pissing on his face.

[pinotnoir]

11. ...

some people are really sick

[SteppingRazor]

14. In South Florida, of course...

Why does this shit always happen in my backyard?

[MindPilot]

16. I hope Steve's dad has an

"accident"

[4 t 4]

18. I Think They

should take his son away RIGHT away until he has major counseling!!!!

[regnaD kciN]

59. And I can't help wondering...

...who he voted for last November. Let me guess...

:argh:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. Knowing labs, If that lab puppy survived it would probably forgive him.

Which is more than I could do.

Give the guy about a year in one of those lovely Florida jails then ten years community service cleaning no-kill kennels. With his tongue.

[MindPilot]

20. Good idea, but should this guy really be allowed

around animals, especially dogs and cats? Maybe he should clean other enclosures...lions, tigers, gorillas, bears, snakes.

I suspect the general population in jail does not look fondly on someone who is there for killing a puppy so the community service point may be moot.

[Flying Dream Blues]

21. No punishment is too great.

[Southsideirish]

22. Florida...why am I not surprised? (apologies to few decent Floridians.)

[Straight Shooter]

23. 'scuse me, I'm going to go and give my dog a big hug right now.

That poor baby puppy. Making messes is what 5 month-old puppies do. They need to be housebroken, not body-broken. That freak Sanon deserves a similar fate.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Was Thinking The Exact Same Thing

I love my beasties! Can't see what could possibly motivate someone to do something so terrible.
The Professor

[Maru Kitteh]

27. That asshole should walk the plank at five stories

see how well he can fly.

[charlie]

30. If you get Animal Planet

on TV, you'll see this same sort of heartrending stuff every day. Some people are just skin wrapped around a cold empty void.

[FreedomAngel82]

31. This is horrible!!

:(

[jobycom]

36. Wow. I'm more disturbed for all the calls for death than even by this

man's actions. I guess if Bush had said Saddam Hussein was killing puppies we would have supported the invasion.

I guess I'm more of a minority than I thought for opposing the death penalty and all other violent punishments. The OP upset me, but I'm even more depressed reading the way other liberals react to it.

[MindPilot]

37. I think most DUers are really opposed to violent punishment in this case

unless they can administer it personally. :evilgrin:

And that is why I could never be a cop; I would not be able to able to resist tazing that jerk until his eyes bleed.

[Bouncy Ball]

39. I'm with you joby

I don't think he should be thrown off a fifth floor balcony.

But I do think if he treats animals like this, someone needs to look into how he treats his kids. That is horribly traumatic for the son, I'm sure.

And I'll cop to feeling the urge to want to punch the guy in the face pretty hard. But not throw him off a balcony.

[jobycom]

48. That was my first post on the subject upthread

That CPS needed to investigate his treatment of his son.

The image of a sixteen year old teenager being so upset that he breaks down in tears over the dead puppy is really disturbing to me, and does hint at other problems. It doesn't make me want to do violence to the father, though, as much as take care of the kid.

I wonder about the father. Is he a bad person? Is he a good person under a lot of stress? Is there mental illness? Is this just some cultural thing, where the man doesn't know any better (redneck, in other words)?

Frankly, though I'm an animal lover (and vegetarian), I'm more horrified by what he did to his son. He should be charged and punished for what he did to the dog--mitigating circumstances being taken into account--but the greatest attention should be given to the son's well-being. I'm angered by the puppy's death, too, but it pales compared to the kid's emotional trauma. I can't imagine doing that to a child of mine, and I couldn't imagine being able to live with myself after I did.

[Branjor]

53. Mitigating circumstances?

Oh, please.

[jobycom]

58. Alright, know it all!

Try this. The man caught his wife cheating three weeks ago. Two nights later he watched his mother die in a car accident, and his father was paralyzed from the neck down trying to save her. The ass who caused the accident just filed suit for everything the man owns, and the man's lawyer agrees he might win. Knowing this, the hospital where his father is undergoing rehab has just called him and told him that they are evicting his father, and he must pick him up within half an hour. The man is in tears, is shaking with anger. His son is sitting on the couch crying. He walks out, trips over the puppy, goes into shock, and flings the first thing he can grab as hard as he can. It happens to be the poor dog, and the man collapses into a quivering, sobbing mess after he's done it.

Unless you know what happened, you don't know shit. You're taking the word of the same media that told you Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, Bush is a nice guy, and Gore was a serial liar.

I don't know, you don't know. Do you want the guy dead, on the word of the media? Good for you. You fit in well with the majority of Americans. If Bush had claimed Hussein was killing puppies, would you have approved of the invasion then.

Please yourself. That's more words than your response was worth.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

43. You shouldn't take all you read at face value.

http://www.google.com.br/search?hl=pt-BR&q=hyperbole+figure+of+speech&btnG=Pesquisa+Google&meta=

[jobycom]

49. Maybe it's hyperbole. Still, it's disturbing.

[friesianrider]

46. I'm anti-death penalty too, but in this case...

I will make an exception. People who abuse animals are like people who abuse kids...they deserve to be shown the 10th level of Hell on Earth.

[Uzybone]

55. Then you are not anti death penalty

n/t

[Branjor]

52. No we wouldn't have supported the invasion....

if Saddam Hussein had been killing puppies. Nobody here would support the killing of 100,000 Iraqis because Saddam was killing puppies, only possibly the killing of Saddam.

[distantearlywarning]

38. Capital punishment is looking better all the time.

In all seriousness, what kind of sick fucker does this? :grr: :nuke:

It would be hard for me to keep emotional control of myself if I were confronted with this situation as a police officer. It would be very tempting to apply a little vigilante justice to this man.

And if I were his neighbor and I knew that he had done this? Hmmm... I think he might mysteriously start having a string of very bad luck.

The saddest thing, unfortunately, is that he'll probably get off with a slap on the wrist (and that's if he gets prosecuted at all). Our courts rarely take this kind of thing seriously. It makes me really angry.

[WI_DEM]

44. What a sick bastard

He probably deserves to be thrown out a five story window and come crashing to the ground. I hope that poor puppy died instantly. Watch this guy just get anger managment or something like that.

[lonestarnot]

54. This fucking freak deserves a long solitary confinement!

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

57. Let's throw him off the 5th floor balcony. Seriously.

[regnaD kciN]

60. I can't agree with that...

After all, a five-floor fall for a fully-grown (in a physical sense) human is nowhere near what it is, relatively speaking, for a two-month-old puppy. Sears Tower, anyone?

:grr:

[friesianrider]

65. I can agree with what you said!

I'll help you, my friend!

[superconnected]

61. what a monster.

I hope everyone he knows finds out about this.

Is there a petition for this? I would like to sign one for a good stiff sentence.

I don't see one listed on this thread.

[QC]

62. " He faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted."

Here's hoping he gets the maximum.

[Raiden]

63. OMG! What a BASTARD!

A puppy!? What kind of sick person could do that to a PUPPY!?


:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

Throw that son of a bitch out of a five story window

[QC]

64. Here's his pic--let's all send some nasty vibes his way.

[friesianrider]

66. Fucking bastard.

May he get what he deserves in this life or the next. :mad:

[Raiden]

67. Put that sick sonofabitch on some kind of registry

What he did is absolutely reprehensible