Very Disturbing Story -- People who kill farm animals for fun

[EV_Ares]

These people need to be dealt with severely.

The Los Angeles Times reports this morning on a disturbing practice: people who get their kicks by killing farm animals.

The paper says Nick Bursio, a rancher in Sonoma County, followed buzzards to one of his calves. It had been shot in the shoulder. "I had a hollow feeling in my gut, to see that dead calf laying there, with the mother cow bellowing nearby," he says. "I thought, what the hell's going on in this place?"

This is one of five animals shot in that part of the state since February, the paper says.

The Times goes on to describe random violence against livestock throughout the USA. "Nationwide, an increasing number of animal cruelty cases are being reported outside city limits: Horses, cows, goats and other farm animals are being killed, authorities say, often by angry, reckless youths, perhaps acting on dares," the paper says.

Those who are caught often face vandalism charges, according to reporter John M. Glionna.

Among the incidents he recounts:
• Texas: Two college students charged with cutting a horse's throat.
• Pennsylvania: Three men killed a child's pony.
• Tennessee: Two boys shot 24 cows.
• California: Someone shot 15 goats "huddled in a portable pen"; Groups of teenagers shot more than 20 cows and horses; Two men intentionally ran over a horse.

This worries experts, who point out that a number of well-known mass murderers started out by killing or abusing animals.

"Driving around in search of animals to kill is very planned and methodical, which could make it more pathological and dangerous," Mary Lou Randour of the Humane Society, tells the paper. "These animals could be standbys for the real thing: a human being."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/08/report-on-peopl.html

[Beaverhausen]

1. Life is cheap these days - human and animal

this is very sad.

[rodeodance]

2. yeah---The RW version of Culture of Life

[riderinthestorm]

3. "Ran over a horse"?! WTF??

Unless they have some kind of bad-ass motherfucking monster truck how the hell do you run over a horse?

Sick fuckers. I can't even imagine what kind of hell they had to put that animal through to finally run it down to the point of exhaustion that it let them come straight at them with a vehicle. Horses are flight animals and will run and run to escape danger, the guys that ran it over worked pretty hard to kill that horse. Sick.

[aquart]

4. Serial killers in training?

Bust their sick asses.

[RebelOne]

5. People who kill animals for sport are just as bad as these creeps. n/t