'Like killing a child': 8 horses dead in possible hate crime

[Playinghardball]

Source: msnbc.com news services

Eight horses — including one just a week old and another on the verge of giving birth — died in an Ohio barn fire that authorities may investigate as a hate crime, according to a local newspaper.

Ohio resident Brent Whitehouse awoke just before midnight on Easter Sunday to check on Love, his pregnant quaterhorse, only to find a harrowing scene: his barn — which housed seven adult horses and one foal — was glowing orange, the Zanesville Times Recorder reported.

Recognizing the peril of his horses, Whitehouse told WHIZ News he ran to the barn and desperately tried to open the doors and free his animals.

“I couldn’t get the door open I could still hear the horses kicking and I tried as hard as I could to get them out and I just couldn’t get them out in time.”

More at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42779335/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

[xchrom]

1. ...

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[backscatter712]

2. The people commiting this crime ought to be skinned alive!

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[JackBeck]

3. It's horrifying that LGBT people are still treated like this in America.

Land of the free, home of the brave?

This was a cowardly act inflicted on a citizen that still does not enjoy equal rights on a state or federal level.

This makes me want to throw-up.

[Brickbat]

4. One of my most vivid childhood memories is of sitting in my grandparents' house on a hot summer

night sort of falling asleep as a great-uncle talked about a horse barn fire he had witnessed. It was the scariest horror story I ever heard.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. I hope they catch whoever did that.

[Chorophyll]

6. OMG. Sick f*cks.

And these pure-of-heart middle-Amurricans think they're going to heaven after killing innocent animals belonging to an innocent man? Sick. :mad: