they got the guy that chopped the head off a troubled girl's dog.

[MnFats]

he used a chain saw and captured it on his photo-phone.

i am in a quandary as to what would be an appropriate punishment for this guy.....

http://www.startribune.com/467/story/1075213.html



snippet:

Anthony Albert Gomez, 24, at first denied any involvement in the death of "Chevy", an Austrialian Shepard mix, but later told police that he instigated others to do it, telling them to "cut its head off" and to do it with a chain saw, the complaint states.

Gomez was an ex-boyfriend of the dog's owner, and told her he had seen the dog near his house after it went missing in February, the complaint states.

Gomez was arrested Thursday while police executed a search warrant in his home in the 100 block of Granite Street. Police found evidence of blood splatter in the basement of his house.

[Donnachaidh]

1. an eye for an eye would suit me

The cruelty of this act is revolting. :puke:

[DinahMoeHum]

5. but I'd settle for one of his nuts.

n/t

[Donnachaidh]

9. only one?

I wouldn't want this psychopath to breed - would you?

[DinahMoeHum]

19. You can have the other. Share and share alike, doncha know?

:evilgrin:

[Donnachaidh]

20. ROFL!!!

:rofl:

[BoneDaddy]

21. Wow

I find the beheading of the dog absolutely disgusting, yet I find your comment about cutting off the offender's balls disturbing in it's own right. Do you realize the amount of outrage that would from women on these boards if a man advocated ripping out a woman's ovaries if she was caught doing something equally attrocious?

Just something to think about.

[meldroc]

31. If it was a woman that did this...

yeah, I would consider ripping out her ovaries...

Reject it, just like rejecting ripping of the guy's testicles in favor of rule of law? Yes, but I would definitely consider it.

[BoneDaddy]

60. ok

...at least you are consistent

[DinahMoeHum]

42. Hey, if you can't take a joke. . .

:freak:

[BoneDaddy]

61. I can take a joke really well

just pointing out the obvious on these boards... I am all for joking as long as the same spirit is in return. I find that is lacking on this board.

[Carni]

30. Give me the other one

I'll beat him to death with it!

[truebrit71]

6. I absolutely agree. Animals like this don't deserve to live.

I'll pay for the gas to power the saw if they need it...

[roguevalley]

47. I could tell you what I would want but you wouldn't want to hear it.

May this fucker know sorrow some day.

[Kool Kitty]

7. I'll second that.

[AZBlue]

22. I agree. Nothing's too awful for this sicko.

eom

[Mad_Dem_X]

23. Agreed

This POS needs his ass kicked (at the very least).

[ThomCat]

2. He needs years of court mandated therapy

and a lot of time behind bars to consider it.
x(

[Midlodemocrat]

Please tell me he had the 'decency' to kill the dog before

he beheaded it.

This is just so horrible.

I did read that the girl got a new puppy.

[tk2kewl]

3. Maybe strip him naked, slather him with brown gravy and drop him in a kennel of pit bulls?

:shrug:

[A Simple Game]

27. The pit bulls I have known might lick him to death,

friendliest most loving dogs I have ever known.

[tk2kewl]

43. ok... dress him in a jump suit made of live rats then.

that ought to get the dogs riled up

[DesertRat]

4. why "troubled" girl? I didn't see that in the story.

[MnFats]

8. i should have been clearer...sorry..it was published previously...she has had

several unfortunate situations in her life and was given the dog as a "therapy dog."

[DesertRat]

10. I read that the dog was a "companion" not a trained "therapy dog."

[MnFats]

12. the reporters may be backpedalling and if so, so am i.

i do recall the dog described as I have.

[DesertRat]

15. It's a really sad, sick story.

The monster who did this should be locked away from society.

[yardwork]

35. OMG.

[Critters2]

13. I didn't think I could be more pissed off about this,

but that did it. This guy is a monster, and should never see the light of day again.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. A linked story on that page specifies that the dog was a

"therapy" dog - but it doesn't go into details of its duties as a companion animal. I suspect that would violate the girl's privacy.

[robinlynne]

25. if someone hurt my dog, i would be troubled.

[Eurobabe]

11. this is a heinous act. i hope this jerk sits in jail for a long time.

[geardaddy]

14. Not only was it her pet, but

it was her therapy dog, according to this article in the Strib.

http://www.startribune.com/467/story/1074034.html

[MnFats]

16. WCCO also described the dog as a therapy dog. Here:

WCCO) A St. Paul family is both heartbroken and terrified tonight after their dog was killed.

St. Paul Police say someone cut off the dog's head and wrapped it in a box for the family to find.

The case is especially devastating because the Australian Shepherd was a special therapy dog owned by a 17-year-old girl.

"Nobody had seen the dog," said Bobbi Brown, mother of the dog's owner.

The family hung up missing posters throughout their St. Paul neighborhood. They frantically searched for their beloved pet, Chevy.

"When she got the package, that's how we found out," said Bobbi.

Left at the steps, a package in Christmas wrapping paper, addressed to 17-year-old Crystal Brown. She opened it.

"She was just hysterical. She was screaming, she said 'Grandma, it's my dog's head.' I said no it can't be... and it was the dog's head," said Shirley Brown, Crystal's Grandmother.

"I had to ask my grandma five different times, 'Is that my dog?'" said Crystal. "I didn't believe her."

Bobbi still sobs, recalling that day two weeks ago.

"They had the box outside on the stairs and his head was in there," she said.

The family said they were disappointed with how St. Paul police responded. They said officers didn't collect evidence, but told them to throw everything away. They also accuse two officers of laughing.

"And to sit and laugh and the dog's head is right in front of you at your feet ... give me a break ... so I reported them the next day," said Shirley.

A spokesman for St. Paul Police said he can't talk about the initial officers' response because that's an internal investigation now.

Crystal has a new therapy dog, a gift from her grandmother, but only an arrest will ease the family's mind.

"That is so cruel," said Bobbi. "I miss him."

The dog's body was discovered in a park. The family believes the suspect is someone they know.

St. Paul Homicide officers are investigating the case now, not because the dog was killed but because they consider what happened a high-level threat against the family.

(© MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Re

[gatorboy]

37. The police laughed at this?

What. The. Fuck. Is wrong with these people? I'm avoiding St. Paul at all costs.

[krispos42]

18. Thank The Flying Spaghetti Monster

I'm not terribly far from St. Paul, and I don't want that... creature... around my kid.

Magic Pink Unicorn help him if I find him in my house.

[robinlynne]

24. I always think that whatever people do to animals should be done to them. exactly.

here in LA some teenagers threw a dog off a six story building. She lived, paralyzed, and my friend took care of her. there's more, but i'll spare you.

[Straight Shooter]

40. A lifetime of blessings to your friend.

:hug:

[wicket]

26. Glad they caught the sick fuck

:grr:

[RiverStone]

28. Recall what that dog did to that guy in the movie Sin City?

I'd settle for that...

[Carni]

29. Torture and then death

yeah yeah flame away...I don't care what this guy's problem is, his mental state etc this is about the sickest thing I have heard this week and I hope he meets a fate worse than the dogs.

I just cannot cut someone that would do something so vile and repugnant any slack whatsoever.

[The Stranger]

32. This is a special case and warrants far more than animal cruelty charges.

The killing of a live dog with a chain saw is beyond pscyhopathic and has implications in that it was a therapy dog.

The District Attorney needs to look well at the books for a good indictment.

[w4rma]

52. "The dog was apparently dead at the time of the beheading, police said." (nt)

[misanthrope]

55. Would that be the same cops that are busy covering their collective butts...

...after the reporting officers laughed at the girl's trauma?

[lpbk2713]

33. Wanted to look like a tough guy for his buds?

Let him clean out the pens every day for a year at the local animal pound. And take plenty of pictures.

[The Straight Story]

34. Gitmo. (nt)

[ends_dont_justify]

36. Ohhhhh. So that's why americans have AK-47s

"Hunting accidents" With sick fucks like this the legal machine may let slip through the cracks :)

I don't think the legal system is going to touch this -- I hope someone with a conscience makes him regret this every day for the rest of his life outside of the courts. Couldn't happen to a better sicko :grr:

[BreweryYardRat]

38. Skin him alive. Skin him alive! SKIN HIM ALIVE!!!

For starters. If someone will get hold of him and pay my passage to St. Paul, I'll take him apart with a knife and a set of pliers.

Dead serious. Even if it gets me prosecuted and thrown in jail for murder 1, I'll still do it.

Sick fucks like this don't deserve to live.

[Madspirit]

39. I'll donate.

I never support the death penalty but stories like this. What a sick fuck.
Since I don't support the death penalty maybe you could just torture him until he kills himself.
This breaks my heart. I love animals as much as I love anyone. If he had done something like this to one of mine, my heart would have overcome my reason and my ethics. I would kill him. Straight up, regardless of the cost to me, my conscience, my ethics... I wouldn't be able to control myself.
Lee

[lse7581011]

48. Me Too! n/t

[The Doctor.]

41. Jail.

Lot's of it.

[OhioChick]

44. They should show a picture of the sick ass. n/t

[AtomicKitten]

45. Dispatch the sick phuck with the same cruelty he inflicted on the dog.

no mercy

[OhioChick]

46. Maybe this sick-ass will be found, as well.

Autopsy reveals dog was boiled alive and skinned


http://zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070317/NEWS01/703170326/1002

[Pyrzqxgl]

50. They should tattoo "This prick cut the head off his ex-girl's dog" on his forehead.

[wicket]

56. Ugh, that's so disturbing and sad

Who the FUCK could do something that sick?!?

[jgraz]

49. Let's hope they caught him with an ounce of pot

That way, he might get some real jailtime.

Sometimes I shudder at how fucked up our priorities are.

[misanthrope]

57. AMEN!!!**nm

*

[WildEyedLiberal]

51. I find it interesting how many threats of violence this thread contains

Yet most on DU become incensed when the death penalty is applied as a punishment to someone convicted of murdering a human being. And no, I'm not talking about cases where the death row inmate's guilt is in doubt. I guess if people on death row had butchered dogs instead of people, DU might be more in favor of the death penalty. I'm anti-death penalty myself, but I just find it ... interesting ... that the same group of people who are so often so vociferously against the death penalty are apparently in favor of torturing, maiming, and killing a sleazebag who killed a dog.

[rasputin1952]

53. So much cruelty in this world...if he did this to the dog...

what would keep him from doing it to a person?

In my minds eye, I know what I'd think I might do to this guy, but I shall spare you.

Since cruel and unusual punishment is outlawed, tons of jail time is necessary in this case if convicted.

If these cops are smart, which they don't seem to be, they'd see if this guy, or his "buddies" are linked to anything else perverse in the area.

[lonestarnot]

54. I read something about him be accused of terrorism.

[rasputin1952]

58. Yeah, I saw where they weren't going for animal cruelty, but some

kind of "terroistic act" or something...WTF are these cops thinking?...:eyes:

Charge him w/a whole crapload of stuff, there has to be mutilation laws, animal cruelty laws, "terrorist" something or other, threats...who knows what the laws are in the area, but he could be convicted on a fistful of kind of obvious ones...whatever gets him the most time...hopefully life.

Then again, if he had some illegal suda-fed that could have been used to produce meth, or a joint, then he'd get life..."umm...kids, drugs are bad". Most likely he'll shave his head and go into rehab...oh wait, this wasn't a millionaire "star", or an oxycontin addicted fat man...:eyes:

[JTG of the PRB]

59. Sickening.

It's absolutely sickening that a human being could do this. It just makes me so mad. I have a dog, my future roommate has a dog, I have always loved dogs. This story just struck right to the core for me.

People like this sicko should be locked up for a long, long time.